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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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9-12 Resources
Pre-1865
Mormons and Westward Expansion: A Guide for Pre-Service Teachers 
Teachers guide students to create interactive digital maps detailing the[...] »
Webquest, Inquiry, and Lincoln’s Views on Technology 
Searching for new, exciting ways to engage your students in the classroom?[...] »
Post-1865
Writing to Learn History: Annotations and Mini-Writes 
A pen or pencil in your student's hand is an excellent tool for teaching[...] »
Teaching African American History: Do We Still Need a Black History Month? 
Black History Month is as important now as when Carter Woodson first thought[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Reading Like a Historian
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical[...] »
Using Technology
“A Push” in the Right Direction
AP U.S. History teacher Scott Campbell and his students use Twitter to reach[...] »