Question stems and prompts you can use to draw out the historical …
Question stems and prompts you can use to draw out the historical thinker in all your students To begin a unit or lesson focused on historical significance: • Why should we bother to learn about X (a person, event, or development)? • Why does everyone remember Y? • Why is X historically significant? • What was the importance of X (a person or document)? • Was X (a person or document) really that important?
Question stems and prompts you can use to draw out the historical …
Question stems and prompts you can use to draw out the historical thinker in all your students To make reasoned and insightful inferences: • This clearly shows that … • From X (a detail) we can infer that … • X (a detail) suggests that … • It doesn’t say so, but … is probably the case, because X (a detail) …
Question stems and prompts you can use to draw out the historical …
Question stems and prompts you can use to draw out the historical thinker in all your students To increase familiarity with some of the elements of continuity and change and related vocabulary: • How would you describe the things that have stayed the same since X (a date or event)? • How would you describe the changes? Were they widespread or limited in scope? Did they happen suddenly or slowly? • Did the changes improve things (that is, progress), or did they make things worse (that is, decline)? • Why did certain elements stay the same while others changed?
Question stems and prompts you can use to draw out the historical …
Question stems and prompts you can use to draw out the historical thinker in all your students To begin a unit or lesson focused on cause and consequence: • What were the short- and long-term causes of X (an historical event)? • What were the consequences of X (an historical event)? • Was it really X (a person) who gave birth to Y (a development)? • What kind of a difference did X make to Y (a community)? • What lay behind X (an historical event)? • How did X (a cause or an historical event) make a difference? • Was X a success? In what ways? • Whose lives changed because of X (an historical event)? ...
Question stems and prompts you can use to draw out the historical …
Question stems and prompts you can use to draw out the historical thinker in all your students To consider the perspectives of people in their historical context: • If this action doesn’t seem to make sense, isn’t what you might expect, or is surprising, why did X (a person) take this course of action? • If this action appears to have been the best response, why did X (a person) not take this course of action? • What did X (a group or individual) feel was most important in their life at this particular time? ...
Question stems and prompts you can use to draw out the historical …
Question stems and prompts you can use to draw out the historical thinker in all your students To think about ethical positions in a textbook: • How do textbooks convey ethical positions? • Whose ethical positions do they represent? • What ethical positions does our textbook take? • What evidence do you see of these positions? (e.g., particular words or phrases) • Which ethical positions in this textbook do you agree with (if any); which do you disagree with (if any)? • How can it be useful to be aware of the ethical dimension in a textbook? ...
Challenging hate online (Grades 10-12) In this lesson, students learn how digital …
Challenging hate online (Grades 10-12) In this lesson, students learn how digital media is used to promote or combat hatred and intolerance. After discussing the different ways that hate organizations get their messages out and how digital media have the potential to work against hatred, students visit and analyze anti-hate initiative websites.
In this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the …
In this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, schools' dwindling stake in the arts, and ADHD. An important, timely talk for parents and teachers.
In this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the …
In this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, schools' dwindling stake in the arts, and ADHD. An important, timely talk for parents and teachers.
Sun West Character High School 10-12 Guidebook - please use the table …
Sun West Character High School 10-12 Guidebook - please use the table of contents to navigate this guidebook. Also, we invite you to share resources you think would be suitable for this guidebook with any of the author's of this guidebook.
Sun West Character Middle Years Grade 6-9 Guidebook - please use the …
Sun West Character Middle Years Grade 6-9 Guidebook - please use the table of contents to navigate this guidebook. Also, we invite you to share resources you think would be suitable for this guidebook with any of the author's of this guidebook.
Sun West Character Elementary K-5 Guidebook - please use the table of …
Sun West Character Elementary K-5 Guidebook - please use the table of contents to navigate this guidebook. Also, we invite you to share resources you think would be suitable for this guidebook with any of the author's of this guidebook.
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