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When we get together, we'll share a few of our favorite resources, ideas, and strategies from the FIELD Guide - all designed to help your students use foundational evidence, solve problems, and use edtech tools. Be sure to check back for the latest updates!

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• Flunking an exam with historical facts? Let’s teach why history really matters
• Kindergarten Historians: Primary sources in an early elementary classroom
• Study shows students in ‘active learning’ classrooms learn more than they think
• Technology in the Classroom & The Benefits for K-12 Schools

Hexagonal Thinking

• Civil War online hexagon example
• Early Republic example (from Adam Moler & his Moler's Musings
• Classtools.net hexagon creator tool

Evidence Analysis Window Frames

• Evidence Analysis Window Frame
• Order a classroom set

3 Story Thinking

• Finding images
  • Search online for images using keywords such as "strange, fascinating, weird, historical, bizarre, odd, photos, images, history"
  • New York Times What's Going On in This Picture?
• Michael Yell Textual DEI article: Engaging Students in World History with a Bog Body Mystery

Google My Maps

• What Would You Witness map
• My Maps Home
• My Maps support page

Chronicling America

• Chronicling America newspaper archive
• Library of Congress Newspaper Analysis Worksheet
• National Archives Newspaper Analysis Worksheet