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Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Teaching the Reconstruction? Ford's Theatre's Sarah Jencks leads teachers [...] »
![Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer. . . ], 1957, Flickr Commons](/sites/default/files/styles/splash_thumb_images/public/Reading-and-Thinking.jpg?itok=f7GCc3Xk "Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer reading a book at his house : Pelican Key, Florida], December 1957, State Library and Archives of Florida, Flickr Commons")
Watch this flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question [...] »
A student demonstrates thinking aloud reading two documents.
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On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a [...] »
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
[...] »Teaching in Action
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Eighth-grade teacher Amy Trenkle keeps students on-task before, during, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Improve your historical analysis skills by learning about different types of [...] »
In this series of exercises, students are presented with Native American [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »