Khan Academy Common Curriculum Penn Points Online Stories of America Dr. Booker’s Simple Rules of History Dr. Matthew Booker is the first presenter in our Century of Progress summer session. He’s sharing today about how the US was able to sustain its Revolution. We always assume that once we won the war against England and signed the Treaty of Paris, that the process of nationhood was a given. But it wasn’t. (An interesting tidbit he just shared. But before he jumped into historical content, he shared three ideas about the process of historical thinking. So here they are – Dr. 1. Why was slavery so successful? Students have trouble with this – they come to our classes with their own world view and questions and problems make them uncomfortable. 2. And there are many resources available to help with this. 3. He said something to the effect of “we must refuse to believe something merely because we want it to be true.” Sam Wineburg said this as well: Booker also shared what he called two “absolute rules for historians.” 1. Implications? 2. Like this: Like Loading...
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History Tours - Home DESCRIBE Primary Source Strategy There’s nothing like a great document. But it’s tough finding ways to use them with kids, especially those kids who always seem to struggle. The following strategy called DESCRIBE is based on work done by the Library of Congress. And an added benefit? The strategy is based on seven research-based instructional principles: actively involving students in the learning processpresenting abstract information in concrete formsorganizing information for studentstying new information to previously learned informationdistinguishing important information from unimportant informationmaking relationships among pieces of information explicitexplicitly showing students how to learn specific types of content The steps in the strategy are represented by the mnemonic device DESCRIBE and the graphic organizer are presented in the boxes below. (Download the blank template here.) The process To start, you should: The teacher guides students through the strategy steps while completing the graphic organizer.
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