Resource Blog #5
Teaching History is a great resource for teachers. The website has teaching materials, history content, and many practices. The website offers material for elementary, middle and high school. When you click on teaching materials, it gives you many different links to lesson plan reviews and many teaching guides. Teaching History gives many different topics to choose from. When you click on history content, it brings you to a link that shows a link for website reviews, a link that is for multiple types of other texts, a list of history quizzes and national resources. The website reviews section helps you to find quality websites as well as primary sources. Beyond the text gives a different point of view than a traditional textbook. The history quiz section gives a list of pre-made quizzes of many topics. The national resources gives a list of different federal teaching resources like the Smithsonian. The last tab, best practices, also gives lots of helpful tools. For example, there is an example of historical thinking, teaching in action, using primary resources and teaching with textbooks sections. The example of history thinking section is where scholars, students and teachers have modeled historical thinking. The teaching in action section is where teachers have demonstrated promising teaching practices and posted them for easy access. The using primary resources section gives strategies for analyzing primary sources. The teaching with textbooks gives techniques for promoting historical inquiries using textbooks.https://teachinghistory.org
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I used the same source earlier in the semester and I saw it as super helpful as well. I particular thought it was useful how they gave multiple resources that you could use other than textbooks. Also, the other end of the spectrum being how they also give strategies and techniques for using your textbooks and inspiring those historical inquires like you say at the end! I think this is great for both students and especially as a teacher to have this plethora of resources and lesson plan aids for teaching Social Studies.
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Hey Corben! Thanks for sharing this resource with us! I love that for each topic, it provides what textbooks say, what historians say, and what sources say to the stated question. It provides different perspectives from three different places which I think is helpful to teachers as they are preparing lessons. I will definitely use this resource in planning lessons in the future!
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