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Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
How do the buildings and artifacts at Mount Vernon reflect the lives of the [...] »
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
How do the speeches of Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper [...] »
Donald A. Ritchie, Historian of the U.S. Senate, asks how a political [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
A 5th-grade teacher teaches historical context through roleplaying [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Quantitative data, although seemingly daunting and impersonal, can help you [...] »
Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »