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Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
Tour Monticello with TAH teachers and learn about the history behind Thomas [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
What is the key line in Franklin D. Roosevelt's second inaugural address? [...] »
On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a [...] »
Teaching in Action
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Learn how to teach your students historical thinking with this informative [...] »
When visiting historical sites, sometimes you need a visual/emotional "hook [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »