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
Teaching with Historical Film Clips
Explore this approach for teaching with historical footage in the elementary[...] »
Teaching Tools
Storytelling with Scrapbooks
Be a creative teacher—use scrapbooks in YOUR history classroom!
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3-5 Resources
Pre-1865
Children’s Voices from the Civil War
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the[...] »
Post-1865
Who Invented the Telephone?
The history of the invention of the telephone is as clear as a Bell . . . or[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Integrating Language Arts and History
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical[...] »
Using Technology
Little Bird Tales
K-6 teachers, worried that your students aren't ready for digital tools?[...] »