Overview

The best-selling resource Teaching Historical Thinking—Revised and expanded edition helps teachers and students acquire the tools to think deeply and critically about history by focusing on six interrelated concepts at the heart of the discipline:

• historical significance
• evidence and interpretation
• continuity and change
• cause and consequence
• historical perspective
• ethical judgment

The print resource with accompanying online supplement offers a multitude of practical teaching ideas and support materials to introduce the concepts and to apply them throughout the history and social studies curriculum.

The most valuable features of the original edition have been retained to support teachers in transforming their classrooms into those where history is problematized and students think critically about it.

Features

• extensively revised chapters on all six historical thinking concepts and a new chapter on connecting critical and historical thinking
• fully developed model lesson plans for each historical thinking concept and over 80 student activity sheets
• a chart that summarizes the key aspects, criteria, and suggested student activities for all six historical thinking concepts
• a student guide on each of the historical thinking concepts
• access to online support materials
• a sample framework for planning units around historical thinking concepts
• a reference guide with links to free web-based resources on historical thinking

Table of Contents

Background
1 Introduction to historical thinking
2 Critical thinking and historical thinking

Portal concepts
3 Historical significance
4 Evidence and interpretation
5 Continuity and change
6 Cause and consequence
7 Historical perspective
8 Ethical judgment