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Using a variety of instructional strategies in your classroom makes good sense.

Teaching with Lectures and Documents

In Ask a Master Teacher

Teach your students to read like a historian with this guided four-step reading process for primary documents.

Four Reads: Learning to Read Primary Documents

In Teaching Guides

The Prayer at Valley Forge by Arnold Friberg

Find lessons about American heritage and the responsibilities of American citizenship with resources in Spanish and English.

America's Heritage: An Adventure in Liberty

In English Language Learners

Spotlight on Elementary Education

History is made by those who are unafraid to push the envelope and redefine the society in which they live. Encourage your students to examine the men and women who worked to make America what it is today with this creative activity. FIND OUT MORE »

Lesson Plan Reviews

Evaluate key elements of effective teaching Watch the INTRODUCTORY VIDEO

Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment

Relive the dream of the women's vote through roleplay or interfacing with [...] »

Students examine primary sources related to the life of an immigrant girl [...] »

English Language Learners

Instructional strategies and resources for ELL

Summarizing and Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing and summarizing exercises help ELL students improve at [...] »

SQ3R: Survey, Question, Read, Review, Recite

Learn about SQ3R, a note-taking system for English Language Learners to help [...] »

Teaching Guides

Explore new teaching methods and approaches

The Research Paper: Developing Historical Questions

Research papers are not an archaic form of assessment. Learn how to help [...] »

Historical Agency in History Book Sets (HBS)

Looking for ways to use fiction in your elementary history curriculum? Read [...] »

Religion and the Labor Movement: A Guide for Pre-Service Teachers

Engaging Library of Congress primary sources that connect religion and [...] »

Free Speech Teaching Guide 1: The Birth of the Modern First Amendment and How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind

This guide focuses on the history of free speech in one crucial year ( [...] »

Stop Action and Assess Alternatives

Teach students to explore contingency with this great lesson plan idea.

Ask a Master Teacher

Tall Tales: The West as Legend

Wrestling bears, surly cowboys, vultures circling lone travelers. . . Find [...] »

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