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Allow students to explore historical events through multiple perspectives [...] »
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Paraphrasing and summarizing exercises help ELL students improve at [...] »
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Discover the resources you need to "globalize" your U.S. history lesson [...] »
Teach your students to read like a historian with this guided four-step [...] »
Hypothesize, test, and acknowledge how sources form different "pictures of [...] »
Help students understand the events of 9/11 and how such events are [...] »
Political cartoons are often conceptually complex, but offer valuable [...] »
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Finding resources to teach local history in elementary classrooms.
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