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
Storytelling with Scrapbooks
Be a creative teacher—use scrapbooks in YOUR history classroom!
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3-5 Resources
Pre-1865
A Look at Slavery through Posters and Broadsides
How to identify the author, audience, date, and message of historical[...] »
Post-1865
Massive Resistance through Political Cartoons
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Historical Agency in History Book Sets (HBS)
Looking for ways to use fiction in your elementary history curriculum? Read[...] »
Using Technology
The Pilgrims in American Culture: Thanksgiving
Were the Pilgrims really shorter than us? Discover the answer to all your[...] »