Quicklinks for Elementary School Teachers
Teacher's Pick
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!
—Anonymous
K-2 Resources
Content
Jennifer Orr on Integrating History into 1st-grade Instruction
U.S. history doesn't usually have its own place in 1st-grade curriculum. How[...] »
Teaching Tools
Jennifer Orr on Making Technology Work for Primary Students: Part Two
Conventional applications of Web 2.0 tools expect students to read and write[...] »
3-5 Resources
Pre-1865
Mystery Strategy for Elementary Students
Using the premise of a mystery, elementary students act as history[...] »
Post-1865
Watergate and the Constitution
To indict or not to indict? Watergate raised complicated questions[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Applying KWL Guides to Sources with Elementary Students
To engage with a source, ask, "What do I know, what do I want[...] »
Using Technology
VoiceThread in a 1st-grade Classroom
Students are never too young for digital tools—watch first graders use[...] »