Thinking Like a Historian: Rethinking History Instruction

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Thinking Like a Historian: Rethinking History Instruction by Nikki Mandell and Bobbie Malone is a teaching and learning framework that explains the essential elements of history and provides “how to” examples for building historical literacy in classrooms at all grade levels. With practical examples, engaging and effective lessons, and classroom activities that tie to essential questions, Thinking Like a Historian provides a framework to enhance and improve teaching and learning history. We invite you to use Thinking Like a Historian to bring history into your classroom or to re-energize your teaching of this crucial discipline in new ways.

The contributors to Thinking Like a Historian are experienced historians and educators from elementary through university levels. This philosophical and pedagogical guide to history as a discipline uses published standards of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the National Council for History Education, the National History Standards and state standards for Wisconsin and California.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0870204386
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 15, 2008
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 136 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780870204388
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0870204388
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.5 x 11 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #151,528 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,345 in Early Childhood Education Materials #2,219 in Instruction Methods #10,602 in History (Books)
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