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Why the FIELD Guide makes sense

  • 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

Foundational Evidence Hikes

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

Inquiry Hikes

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

EdTech Hikes

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

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