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  #1 natashamaris on 10 Nov 11

   

  Canada's government is interested in making history a more central focus in the education system. A project, called 'The Historical Thinking Project' is attempting to foster a new approach to teaching history. The aim of this approach to to provide social studies departments, local boards, provincial ministries of education, publishers and public history agencies with models of more meaningful history teaching, assessment, and learning for their students and audiences. This website provides many teacher resources, lessons, and a forum, and can definitely be useful for history teachers.
  
  Historical Thinking, according to this project, involves teaching 6 concepts in to students:
  1. Establish Historical Significance
  2. Use Primary Source Evidence
  3. Use Primary Source Evidence
  4. Analyze Cause and Consequence
  5. Take Historical Perspectives
  6. Understand Ethical Dimensions of History
  
  Many of these concepts are focused on challenging students to think critically and understand their own lives in the historical context of past decades, centuries and millennia. Students should become historical thinkers just as they are mathematical or scientific thinkers.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Canada's government is interested in making history a more central focus in the education system. A project, called 'The Historical Thinking Project' is attempting to foster a new approach to teaching history. The aim of this approach to to provide social studies departments, local boards, provincial ministries of education, publishers and public history agencies with models of more meaningful history teaching, assessment, and learning for their students and audiences. This website provides many teacher resources, lessons, and a forum, and can definitely be useful for history teachers. <br /> <br /> Historical Thinking, according to this project, involves teaching 6 concepts in to students: <br /> 1. Establish Historical Significance <br /> 2. Use Primary Source Evidence <br /> 3. Use Primary Source Evidence <br /> 4. Analyze Cause and Consequence <br /> 5. Take Historical Perspectives <br /> 6. Understand Ethical Dimensions of History <br /> <br /> Many of these concepts are focused on challenging students to think critically and understand their own lives in the historical context of past decades, centuries and millennia. Students should become historical thinkers just as they are mathematical or scientific thinkers.</div>

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