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Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking

On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a [...] »

What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »

See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »

How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »

With the advent of industry and western expansion, U.S. businesses mass [...] »
Teaching in Action

Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »

Trying to promote more productive and engaging discussions?
[...] »Using Primary Sources

Explore the SOCC analysis technique with this great website.
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Work with early twentieth-century film as historical evidence. What [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks

Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »

Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »

The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »

Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »

Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »