Slave traders captured and sent an estimated twelve and a half million Africans to the Americas in what is known to many as the Middle Passage. Perhaps less known is the Second Middle Passage of the domestic slave trade in the United States. In this lesson, students analyze a series of documents to answer the question: Why do historians refer to the slave trade within the United States as the Second Middle Passage? [Teacher Materials and Student Materials updated on 9/27/22.]
Eric Alterman writes on the implications of a decline, in the past decade, of history majors among American college students.
This chart elaborates on the historical reading skills of sourcing, corroboration, contextualization, and close reading. In addition to questions that relate to each skill, the chart includes descriptions of how students might demonstrate historical thinking and sentence frames to support the development of these skills!. [Spanish chart updated on 06/23/20.]
It's hard to teach Social Studies Skills to students. Most of our students groan, shut down, or struggle when it comes to analyzing Historical events, prima...
In this interactive slide deck students learn what historical thinking skills are and why they are important. Like cause and effect, chronological thinking, and comparison. INCLUDES PRINTABLE GUIDED NOTES PAGES, KNOWLEDGE CHECKS, AND MORE!
6 Activities & Strategies That Engage & Build Skills History class must be more than just studying events and figures from the past and memorizing dates- and thank gosh for that! Really exploring history and engaging students in history classes means that they genuinely explore the past and investigate, wrestl
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Struggling with making historical thinking skills easy and accessible to your students? This introductory activity makes the skills relatable and fun! With this activity, students will be introduced to the major historical thinking skills (historical context, point of view, purpose, audience, and so...
Back to School ice-breakers and first day or first week activities are an excellent way to set the tone for your history class: on-level history or APUSH, AP Euro or AP World. Get to know your students digitally or in person AND teach historical thinking skills in an accessible, engaging way! Studen...
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This reading and primary source analysis for high school U.S. History classes teaches students about the 1820 Missouri Compromise and focuses on how it thwarted secession momentarily while elevating sectional disputes that led to the Civil War. The lesson is designed to teach about the Missouri Comp...
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A tutorial on the Historical Thinking Skill of Synthesis for AP History courses
Introduce survivor testimony to your students of all levels with the Teaching about the Holocaust Using Recorded Survivor Testimony pedagogical activity.
Watch third grade students use historical thinking skills to analyze images of Roy Campenella. The Source, Contextualize and Corroborate heuristics were o...
Assignments that are bigger than a lesson and smaller than a unit are a good way to experiment with inquiry-based learning.
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George French Angas, War-dance before the great Pah (pa) of Oinemutu (Ohinemutu) at the Rotorua (Rotorua) Lakes, 1844.
Odds are you would like to create more time to think about what is important. Here are proven ways to do just that.
