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
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere: Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
Did Revere's ride really look like that? Use historical documents to analyze[...] »
Post-1865
Immigration
Very few of us have ancestors who were not immigrants. Bring the topic of[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Integrating Language Arts and History
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical[...] »
Using Technology
Mark Smith on Using Constructivist Video Production
Do you use video creation as a culminating activity? Teacher Mark Smith[...] »