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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!
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9-12 Resources
Pre-1865
Structured Academic Controversy (SAC) 
Are classroom discussions about winning the argument or about understanding[...] »
Abraham Lincoln and the Jews 
Students learn about the sixteenth president's relationship with Jewish[...] »
Post-1865
Teaching African American History: Do We Still Need a Black History Month? 
Black History Month is as important now as when Carter Woodson first thought[...] »
Close Reading of a Primary Document 
On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Using Historical Ephemera in the Classroom
Ticket stubs. Report cards. Photographs. All of these things have historical[...] »
Using Technology
Primary Source Sets on the Web
Check out these sites for primary sources grouped into sets by topic, grade-[...] »