Sentences with phrase «historical thinking skills»

In instances where technology was used, meaningful instruction in historical thinking skills and content knowledge occurred.

At the same time, the students of the Facing History teachers demonstrated significantly greater historical thinking skills, civic efficacy, and tolerance for others with different views than control students.

Beyond the Bubble features new kinds of history assessments that allow teachers to gauge whether students have mastered key historical thinking skills.

The findings of this study suggest that teacher investment in professional development can lead to technology integration and meaningful instruction in historical thinking skills and content knowledge.

She found that young people can feel connected to the past and demonstrate critical historical thinking skills and also that differences in their historical understanding are related to differences in how they talk about themselves and the past.

This activity helps them analyze evidence and use it to evaluate a source, as well as draw conclusions based on the evidence — key Common Core Standards and important historical thinking skills.

Perhaps most important was that while students were deeply engaged in the content and invested in creating the final product, they were also developing historical thinking skills, exploring Europe's history through a critical lens, applying their reading comprehension skills to difficult non-fiction and historical fiction, interpreting primary sources, writing in a number of genres, and developing their oral language abilities.

Randomized trials have demonstrated that their model improves teacher efficacy, students» historical thinking skills and civic dispositions, and school culture.

More recently researchers have explored how role playing games and simulations build both historical thinking skills and historical empathy (Atkinson, 2010; Devlin - Sherer, & Sardone, 2010; Lee & Probert, 2010; McCall, 2011).

What are historical thinking skills?

Historical thinking skills and computerized archives: Exploring the American journey CD - ROM series.