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Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
Teaching the Reconstruction? Ford's Theatre's Sarah Jencks leads teachers [...] »
On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a [...] »
Teaching in Action
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Trying to promote more productive and engaging discussions?
[...] »Using Primary Sources
This source from Cornell University's Olin and Uris Libraries includes [...] »
Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »