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Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing [...] »
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
Two letters from 1800 Tripoli lead into a story of piracy, privateering, [...] »
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
[...] »Teaching in Action
A 5th-grade teacher teaches historical context through roleplaying [...] »
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
These worksheets from the Library of Congress help students analyze primary [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »