With practical examples, engaging lessons and classroom activities that tie to essential questions, this book provides a framework to enhance teaching and learning history.
Do you love history? Are you fascinated and enthusiastic about studying or teaching history? With practical examples, engaging and effective lessons, and classroom activities that tie to essential questions, Thinking Like a Historian provides a framework to enhance and improve teaching and learning history. We invite you to use this book to bring history into your classroom or to re-energize your teaching of this crucial discipline in new ways.
The contributors to Thinking Like a Historian are experienced historians and educators from elementary through university levels. This philosophical and pedagogical guide to history as a discipline uses published standards of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the National Council for History Education, the National History Standards and state standards for Wisconsin and California.
Authors
Nikki Mandell and Bobbie Malone
Details
- Paperback
- Pages: 136
- Illustrations: 25 b/w photos, charts, worksheets
- 8.5 x 11"
- ISBN: 978-0-87020-438-8
- Publication: 2008, Wisconsin Historical Society Press