Using Primary Sources
Scholars in Action: Analyzing Abolitionist Speeches
Scholars In Action presents case studies that demonstrate how scholars interpret different kinds of historical evidence.
Scholars in Action: Analyzing an 1804 Inventory
Scholars in Action presents case studies that demonstrate how scholars interpret different kinds of historical evidence.
Teaching With Textbooks
Questioning Textbook Authority
Challenge the authority gap between students and the textbook.
Examples of Historical Thinking
Seeing (and Engaging in) Historical Thinking: An Interactive Tutorial
This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing historical sources.
Sourcing a Primary Document in Historical Thinking Matters
To see sourcing in action, watch how this historian begins to read a document about the Scopes Trial.
Examples of Teaching
Causes of World War I
This video shows a ninth-grade history class applying new knowledge about causal reasoning to the question of whether two bullets were, in fact, responsible for the start of World War I.
Teaching Historical Context Before and During Role-playing Activities
Planning a role-playing activity in your classroom? Visit this website to see how a 5th grade teacher teaches historical context before and during role-playing activities.
Teaching Historical Interpretation through Planning Documentary Films
Watch this high school teacher lead his mixed-ability class through a lesson in planning documentary films about World War I.
