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Searching for new, exciting ways to engage your students in the classroom? Why not make them internet detectives? [...] »
In order to understand topics, you must first understand concepts. Learn all about conceptualization here! [...] »
Ticket stubs. Report cards. Photographs. All of these things have historical meaning. [...] »
Teach students to explore contingency with this great lesson plan idea. [...] »
Construct an ongoing, shared classroom timeline in middle and elementary classrooms, and help students tackle the chronology of history. [...] »
Explore this approach for teaching with historical footage in the elementary, middle, and high school classroom. [...] »
Using the premise of a mystery to solve, elementary students act as history detectives as they explore a historical question and analyze carefully chosen clues to formulate and test hypotheses. [...] »
Engage your students in preserving local history! Use this teacher's successful service learning activity to guide you. [...] »
Hypothesize, test, and acknowledge how sources form different "pictures of the past". [...] »
Maps show far more than how to go from point A to point B! They provide a resource for global exploration, and for individuals to see the positioning of one's nation in the world. [...] »
