Teaching Historical Thinking Using Primary Sources

Fostering historical thinking with digitized primary sources | PPT

(2012). Reading Like a Historian: A Document-Based History Curriculum Intervention in Urban High Schools. Cognition and Instruction, 30(1), 86– ...

Critical Thinking Using Primary Sources in U.S. History

Use the document based questions about people and key eras in US History to build critical-reading, thinking, and analytical skills. Or, you can truly expand ...

Using Primary Sources in the Classroom and for Historical Research

Historians use the term “primary source” to describe a piece of historical evidence such as an artifact, photograph, newspaper article, book, or letter.

a study of US history teachers' views on using primary sources in AP ...

Analysis of primary sources has been recognised to have a significant impact on the development of students' historical thinking. This study explored US ...

Package Activities forThink Like a Historian: Working with Primary ...

This package guides teachers and students through the basics of applying Peter Seixas and Tom Morton's Big Six Historical Thinking Concepts to the different ...

Historical thinking skills in the classroom, Part 2 - History in Focus

Contextualization – Students will be able to place a document, person, event, or idea in the temporal space in which it existed, using knowledge ...

Historical Thinking (3) : Primary Source Evidence

Textbooks; Encyclopedia; Magazines; Journal Articles; Books (discussing a past event); Book Reviews; Commentaries. Using Primary Sources during Research to ...

How and Why to Use Primary Sources When Teaching History - HMH

Using primary sources as part of your curriculum automatically turns a static lesson into an active-learning session as both teacher and student ...

Preservice Social Studies Teachers' Historical Thinking and ...

The pedagogical practice of historical thinking is fundamentally tied to those rich primary sources that can provide historical evidence, ...

Using Core Historical Thinking Concepts in an Elementary History ...

and resources for teaching K-5 history and historical thinking. ... national History Education Clearinghouse, “Using Maps as Primary sources,” Teaching ...

Teaching with Primary Sources: History Mystery! | Brooklyn Public ...

Students will practice making observations and inferences, and then using this analysis as evidence for a narrative which responds to the ...

Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in ...

Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in History is a fine example both of the best of the new scholarship about the web, and of the ...

[TPS] Primary Source Analysis and Historical Thinking Skills

Kira Duke shows teachers how to make history more interactive by viewing past images through a historical lens.

Analyzing Primary Sources: Insights and Inquiry | Teacher Resources

Examining history through primary sources can foster self-awareness, empathy, inquiry, and critical thinking. Analyzing different primary sources from the ...

[PDF] Teaching Historical Thinking Skills Through “Reading Like A ...

... learning exemplars to Grade 6 pupils utilizing the Reading Like a Historian framework as a tool in primary source analysis in teaching historical thinking ...

Using Primary Sources to Teach History in Middle School

As educators, we know it is important to use primary sources to teach history. We know our students need to learn historical thinking skills.

Preservice Social Studies Teachers' Historical Thinking and ...

In this qualitative case study the authors explored secondary social studies preservice teachers' abilities to discern the digitized primary resources available ...

5 Tips for Crafting Compelling Historical Inquiry Questions

Ground your inquiry questions in primary sources to empower students to work like historians, analyzing and interpreting original documents, ...

Think Like a Historian Unit | Introduction to Historical Thinking

Introduction Lessons: · Why Study History— Illustrate and explain compelling reasons to study history by creating posters and participating in a gallery walk ...

Thinking Like a Historian

Teaching with Primary Sources Quarterly. Washington, DC: Library of Congress ... One way to teach for historical thinking using a textbook is to have ...