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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!
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K-2 Resources
Content
Jennifer Orr on Integrating History into 1st-grade Instruction
U.S. history doesn't usually have its own place in 1st-grade curriculum. How[...] »
Teaching Tools
Civics Online![Photo, Roy Takano [i.e., Takeno] at town hall meeting, LOC](/sites/default/files/styles/splash_thumb_images/public/civics_0.jpg?itok=L_zl9Qgh "Photo, Roy Takano [i.e., Takeno] at town hall meeting, Manzanar Relocation Center, California. LOC")
Gain inspiration for new ways to approach political history.
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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
Watergate and the Constitution
To indict or not to indict? Watergate raised complicated questions[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Integrating Language Arts and History
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical[...] »
Using Technology
Sea of Liberty
Explore the meaning of freedom and create your own interpretations using[...] »