Teaching world history thematically : essential questions and document-based lessons to connect past and present /
This book offers the tools teachers need to get started with a more thoughtful and compelling approach to teaching history, one that develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to students' lives today and meets social studies 3C standards and most state standards (gra...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Teachers College Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | This book offers the tools teachers need to get started with a more thoughtful and compelling approach to teaching history, one that develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to students' lives today and meets social studies 3C standards and most state standards (grades 7-12). The author provides over ninety primary sources organized into seven thematic units, each structured around an essential question from world history. As students analyze carefully excerpted documents, including speeches by queens and rebels, ancient artifacts and social media posts, they build an understanding of how diverse historical figures have approached key issues. At the same time, students learn to participate in civic debates and develop their own views on what it means to be a 21st-century citizen of the world. Each unit connects to current events with dynamic classroom activities that make history come alive. In addition to the documents themselves, this teaching manual provides strategies to assess student learning, mini-lectures designed to introduce documents, activities and reproducibles to help students process, display and integrate their learning, guidance to help teachers create their own units, guidelines for respectful student debate and discussion and more. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807764466 0807764469 9780807764473 0807764477 |