MORE THAN NAMES AND DATES:
HISTORY CLASSROOMS AS
HISTORIAN BOOTCAMP
What I think I do. What my mom thinks I do.
What I actually do.
EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
Those who do not remember...
blah, blah, Blah.
The majority of Americans do
not remember the facts they
learned in history class.
The majority of Americans do
not remember the facts they
learned in history class.
Most do use skills taught in the
history discipline in their
workplaces and private lives.
content
collaboration
creation
HISTORIAN’S TOOL BOX
HISTORIAN’S TOOL BOX
HISTORIAN’S TOOL BOX
content
collaboration
creation
In my classroom
sourcing Contextualization
Close-reading
corroboration
In my classroom
sourcing Contextualization
Close-reading
corroboration
Chronicling America
Zinn edu. project
Life photo archive
The Avalon project
American art museum Current online exhibits:
“Great American Hall of Wonders”
“African American Art: Harlem
Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond”
“The Civil War and American Art”
“A Measure of the Earth: The Cole-Ware
Collection of American Baskets”
“Our America: The Latino Presence in
American Art”
History sourcebook
Have fun with history
Valley of the shadow
In my classroom
sourcing Contextualization
Close-reading
corroboration
Beyond the Bubble
In my classroom
sourcing Contextualization
Close-reading
corroboration
Eyewitness to history
Object of History
In my classroom
sourcing Contextualization
Close-reading
corroboration
Google hist. maps
content
collaboration
creation
Republic of letters
Visualizing emancipation
Geographies of the holocaust
content
collaboration
creation
Screencast-o-matic
Past Simulations:
-Delegates from WWI Central & Allied
countries seeking alternatives to war
-Government & social influences
during the Mexican War
-A 17th century philosophes’ salon
-Explorers roundtable during the Age
of Exploration
-Trial of Marin Luther by the Catholic
Church
-Trial of Andrew Jackson
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