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Bookmark or Share- Teachinghistory.orgTeachinghistory.org goes beyond easy access to content and resources. It also demonstrates innovative ways to teach about the past. Lesson Plan Reviews provide good models and a rubric for assessing a lesson's quality. Reviews help you think about how to choose from the millions of lessons available online, including those you find through our Lesson Plan Gateway.
- Teaching with Timelines - Teachinghistory.orgResearchers have found that students too often encounter little bits and pieces of history out of context and unconnected to larger historic themes ().Consequently, students don’t develop a sense of historic era and they don’t connect individual events to larger movements and themes ().These limitations not only affect students’ grasp of history topics; they may also restrict students ...
- Teachinghistory.orgTo help analyze the effects of those different inputs, historians often classify an event’s causes into different categories. A proximate cause is an incident that appears to directly trigger an event, as the election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860 and the shelling of Fort Sumter led to the outbreak of the Civil War. Such dramatic incidents are often the ones we think of as “causing ...
- Teachinghistory.orgThis collection of activities found on the Bringing History Home website introduces first graders to important historical concepts. Through exploring the history of their time at school, students learn about topics such as chronology and historical context as well as how to identify and question different types of primary sources.
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