Quicklinks for Elementary School Teachers
Teacher's Pick
Teaching with Textbooks
Lessons in which students compare secondary sources are a challenge for me to set up. This entry about comparing textbook accounts helped a lot!
—Anonymous
K-2 Resources
Content
National Portrait Gallery
Allow students to "meet" their favorite historical figures.
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Teaching Tools
Whiteboards and the Youngest Children
Watch kindergarten classes engage in project-based learning using new[...] »
3-5 Resources
Pre-1865
The Boston Massacre: Fact, Fiction, or Bad Memory
Help students think about where evidence for history comes from.
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Post-1865
Massive Resistance through Political Cartoons
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Stop and Source!
Students get more out of historical photographs when they take the time to[...] »
Using Technology
VoiceThread in a 1st-grade Classroom
Students are never too young for digital tools—watch first graders use[...] »