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Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
Who was Jane Addams, and how is her article "Why Women Should Vote" still [...] »
How did the World War II internment of Japanese Americans happen? Historian [...] »
What do the contents of pockets say about their owners? TAH teachers model [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Using Primary Sources
The National History Day’s guidelines for defining and locating [...] »
Teach students how to utilize primary sources with this game from [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »