Teacher Resources

NHDRuleBook2020Digital.pdf

Rule Book

Teacher Guide - Guide to Student Research and Historical Argumentation.pdf

Teacher Guide

Student Guide - Finding, Analyzing, andConstructing History.pdf

Student Guide

OralHistoryUserGuide.pdf

Oral History Teacher Guide

Student-Oral-History-Toolkit-2022.pdf

Oral History Student Guide

Getting Started with Oral Histories

Understanding Oral Histories

Research Strategies

Developing Historical Research Questions

Question Formulation Technique

Inquiry Charts Increase Student Agency as ResearchersWhen you ask students to research a topic, what happens? Chances are some students will struggle. The authors use Inquiry Charts to help all students succeed.

Some Fun Tasks That Help Students Build Research MusclesResearch is a muscle that Megan Kelly’s 6th grade social studies students are still building, and just like muscles, their skills get stronger with repetition.

Historical Thinking Skills

Using Bell Ringers to Teach the Historical MethodShort activities built on examining photographs, artifacts, and other resources from the past can help students think like historians.

How to Engage Students in Historical Thinking Using Everyday ObjectsAsking students to examine their own possessions from the perspective of a historian in the future helps them sharpens their analytical skills.

Secondary Source Use

Teaching Students How to Identify Credible SourcesTeachers can guide students toward a clear understanding of the factors that make a particular source of information reliable or not.

pg 9 Sec Sources.pdf

Teaching Historiography in Middle and High SchoolThis teacher asked his students what they didn’t like about textbooks and used their responses as a way to have them engage in close reading of primary sources.

Primary Source USe

Primary_Source_Analysis_Tool_LOC.pdf

6 Free Online Resources for Primary Source DocumentsThe Common Core Learning Standards describe the importance of teaching students how to comprehend informational text. Primary source documents are artifacts created by individuals during a particular period in history. This could be a letter, speech, photograph or journal entry. If you're looking to integrate social studies into your literacy block, try out one of these resources for primary source documents.

Library of Congress Teacher Guides toTeach Primary Source Analysis

Six Ways to Teach with Primary SourcesDuring American Archives Month this October, Facing History wants to highlight the importance of primary sources to our pedagogical approach by offering resources designed to incorporate analysis of primary sources into educator lesson plans.

It’s Not About the Right Answer: Using Primary Sources to Help Students Ask the Right QuestionsIt’s Not About the Right Answer: Using Primary Sources to Help Students Ask the Right Questions

Using Proper Terminology

Ask a National Endowment for the Humanities Expert: Using Proper Terminology in Historical Research and Writing

Teaching & Learning about American Indians

Check out the answers to some of the questions that educators frequently ask about Native Americans. Can't find what you're looking for? Send a question to: nmai-nk360@si.edu.

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