Building Background Knowledge for English Language Learners
How can we help our 5th-grade ELL students build background and make connections with our social studies curriculum?
World War and Literature
Can you suggest any literature covering World War I to World War II that my 10th-grade world history class can read?
Historic Stories, Fictional Accounts: Achieving Multiperspectivity
Nonfiction texts are great sources for learning about historical events and figures. However, do fictional accounts also have a place in the history classroom?
Stop and Source!
Students get more out of historical photographs when they take the time to explore who took them, where, and why.
APPARTS Strategy: Origins and Implementation
Engrain the APPARTS strategy into young students, and they’ll be well on their way to AP-level performance.
Deciphering Primary Source Documents
Create scaffolding and careful preparation of documents to promote student understanding of primary sources.
Performance Assessments Requiring Historical Analysis
When you want your students to think, rather than just remember.
Realizing the Value of Primary Sources
When you just can’t get your students to care what the Founders, or anyone else, wrote.
Online U.S. History Textbooks
Where to begin your search to find reliable online history textbooks.
Teaching the Declaration without Overwhelming Students
Is the Declaration of Independence challenging for your students? Check out these ideas to make this text more accessible.
Bridging the Language Barrier
Vocabulary legends, guiding questions, and teamwork are all good solutions.
Using Document Based Questions with Struggling Readers
Should I just try to jazz up our textbook or can you suggest places to look to find documents that my kids can decipher?