History Perspective: Resources
Historical Understanding:
This article is on why understanding perspective is important for both teachers and their students and gives different accounts of events in history as examples.
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This website is a great resource that teaches teachers how to create assessments for their students that prove that they understand the content taught and provide them opportunities to apply what they learned.
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This website has many different materials, tools, and resources a teacher can use in the classroom when teaching historical understanding. It gives techniques of teaching understanding and how to have your students use current research.
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This link leads to many different resources of videos a teacher can use when teaching a wide range of history topics that help students to gain historical understanding from different perspectives.
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Historical Investigating and Thinking:
This link gives examples and explains how to use primary and secondary sources in different perspectives in order to understand a topic in history.
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This resource is a great activity that teaches how to have students more engaged in the learning process. This has students investigate using artifacts in a mock scene from history to help them draw conclusions about an event in history.
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This website leads to a video that teaches what historical thinking is and why it is important in order for one to understand topics in history.
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This guide explains an approach for teaching with historical film clips that meets two purposes: teaching students that film needs to be questioned just like other historical accounts, and deepening students' historical understanding of particular topics.
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This website is a resource that states what historical understanding really is and how it can be accomplished in the classroom with many different links that give more information about primary sources, ethical dimensions of history, and continuity and change.
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Historical Interpretations:
This YouTube video is on 25 mind-boggling facts that will change your perspective on history. It helps to show different perspectives in history and that understanding history can be fun and interesting.
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This website leads to different accounts of the Boston Tea Party and how looking at different accounts can help confirm a resources truthfulness.
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This video shows the importance of perspective and of multiple interpretations of an event using The Three Little Pigs as an example.
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