Charting the Future of Teaching the Past

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The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents modified for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities.

This curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. Instead of memorizing historical facts, students evaluate the trustworthiness of multiple perspectives on issues from King Philip's War to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and make historical claims backed by documentary evidence.

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Perfect Classroom!! « kennethbourne

Perfect Classroom!! « kennethbourne

By kennethbourne

my idea of a perfect classroom would be more than ideal classroom. my perfect classroom would be more of a hands on classroom, where outside is brung into the inside so students will have a better understanding of it for example, we don’t have an economics class in my school so I would definitely have a section where you can learn about economics. that section would look like a gas station, or bank offices(checks) depending on the schedule. I chose life-size replica’s because I know for a fact it would help one student learn more because they will b e able to see the reaction with there own eyes and not off some video or just hearing it from their teachers mouth. so in each class their would be a life-size replica of a situation, like the airport, or gas station.

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C-SPAN Classroom.

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C-SPAN Classroom

C-SPAN Classroom is a web site for civics teachers featuring free resources like video clips and discussion questions that are linked to national standards. All of our materials are copyright-cleared for classroom use.

http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/
Another possible way for students to use C-SPAN video clips to follow current events is by having them "collect" segments to tell a 5 minute story. Idea here:  https://sites.google.com/site/civiclit/sample-civiclit-lessons/5-mi...

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