Curriculum

The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents modified for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities. This curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. I am so excited to find your website and your lessons. Karen Peyer, Teacher, Russell Middle School, Colorado Springs How do I use these lessons in my classroom? The 75 lessons in this curriculum can be taught in succession, but are designed to stand alone and supplement what teachers are already doing in the classroom. 1. *Note: United Streaming requires a subscription to Discovery Education. 2. a) Opening up the Textbook (OUT): In these lessons, students examine two documents: the textbook and a historical document that challenges or expands the textbook's account. 3. Related: Primary Sources

Defining Primary and Secondary Sources - Toolkit - The Learning Centre Archived Content This archived Web page remains online for reference, research or recordkeeping purposes. This page will not be altered or updated. Web pages that are archived on the Internet are not subject to the Government of Canada Web Standards. Toolkit Defining Primary and Secondary Sources By Michael Eamon, historian and archivist, Library and Archives Canada Primary Sources Secondary Sources When Is a Primary Source Not a Primary Source? Libraries and archives hold objects, like documents and books, which help us to find out what happened in the past. Primary and secondary sources, when used together, help us to understand people, ideas and events from the past. Primary Sources People use original, first-hand accounts as building blocks to create stories from the past. Primary sources are created at the time of an event, or very soon after something has happened. All of the following can be primary sources: Secondary Sources When Is a Primary Source Not a Primary Source? C.W. Checklist

Apples4theteacher.com - A Primary Website - Educational Games and Activities for Kids World History For Us All: Big Era 9 Home > The Big Eras > Big Era Nine is different from earlier eras because we do not yet know where it is leading. Nevertheless, we can distinguish some key world historical processes that have been especially important in shaping the current era. Their interactions, sometimes unforeseen, have given rise to major new challenges to humanity. In sum, the world has become increasingly contradictory and paradoxical. Humans and the Environment The single most important development in this era has been the scale of potentially irreversible human impact on the environment. Population growth and its environmental effects. The spread of new medicines such as antibiotics as well as improved sanitation and health care, especially in the world’s burgeoning cities, all played a role. Unprecedented population growth has magnified human impact on forests, croplands, pastures, and seas. Colossal energy consumption and the environment. Humans and Other Humans Big science. Global migration.

Internet History Sourcebooks Internet Ancient History Sourcebook The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook has expanded greatly since its creation, and now contains hundred of local files as well as links to source texts throughout the net. See Introduction for an explanation of the Sourcebook's goals. The Ancient History Sourcebook works as follows: This Main Index page [this page] shows all sections and sub sections. Additional Study/Research Aids In addition to the above structure, there are a series of pages to help teacher and students. Ancient History in the Movies Subjects covered by the source texts in each Section. Studying Ancient History Introduction: Using Primary Sources Nature of Historiography Other Sources of Information on Ancient History General Guides to Net Texts [link to texts at other sites.] The Ancient Near East Mesopotamia Egypt Persia Israel Greek Civilizations Greece The Hellenistic World Introduction Paul Halsall, Compiler and Editor The date of inception was 4/8/1998. © Paul Halsall, 1999.

World History For Us All: Big Era 8 Home > The Big Eras > By the end of the nineteenth century, societies around the globe had been brought within a single, rapidly evolving world system as a result of what we called in the previous chapter the <a href="/shared/glossary.htm" target="_blank">(Glossary-without Javascript)</a> The world system was dominated by the industrialized states of Europe, which had been weak and marginal powers just a few centuries before. Where industrialization did not take place, integration into the world system often meant greater economic weakness. Early in the twentieth century, rapid economic and technological change, increasing competition among powerful states, and resistance to European domination worked together to destabilize the world system. Despite these wrenching changes, the industrialized regions of Europe, North America, the USSR, and Japan, which accounted together for about 75 percent of the globes Humans and the Environment The shift to cities. Humans reshaping the environment. The

Internet History Sourcebooks Internet Medieval Sourcebook Selected Sources: The Crusades Contents General Background The First Crusade Urban II's Speech, 1095 Attacks on the Jews The Journeys and Battles of the Crusade The Historians of the First Crusade The Kingdom of Jerusalem Government Economics Cultures Christian Muslim Interaction The Crusader Orders General Templars Hospitallers Teutonic Knights The Second Crusade and Aftermath Calling the Crusade Successes and Failures Criticism of the Crusade The Third Crusade Latin Problems The Loss of Jerusalem The Failure of Europe's Monarchs The German Crusade of 1197 The Fourth Crusade The Fifth and Later Crusades St Louis' Crusades The Fall of the Latin East The Effects of the Crusade Ideal in the West General WEB ORB: Crusades [At ORB] for a brief modern account of the crusading movement. Background Leo IV (r.847-855): Forgiveness of Sins for Those Who Dies in Battle, c.850. The First Crusade The Kingdom of Jerusalem The Crusader Orders

American History EuroDocs Primary and Secondary Sources Way back in 1703, a massive storm hit the southern coast of England. It was a hurricane known as the Great Storm and it took over 8,000 lives. Today we know quite a bit about that storm and what actually happened when it came ashore. We know so much because we have a reliable way to research and document events, places, and people who matter. Using two major kinds of sources, we can establish the facts and information that represent the most accurate version of events. Here’s how it works. When an event like the Great Storm happens there are usually people who witnessed or experienced it directly. These are the primary sources for research about the storm. But for your article, other sources of information may also be helpful. For your article, this is considered a secondary source. So for any important part of history, you are likely to find two types of sources that can work together to give you a strong sense of the event.