Stanford History Education Group

This month’s featured resource comes as a result of a question posed to the WISGIFT listserv about advanced learning in the teaching of history. (Thank you to WISGIFT listserv subscriber Andrea Lorenz for this resource!)

Stanford’s History Education Group provides field-tested materials for teaching students to be critical consumers of history. Resources include:

• Reading Like a Historian curriculum, engaging students with essential historical questions and primary source documents.
• History Assessments of Thinking, over 80 assessments that measure students' historical thinking rather than recall of facts.
• Civic Online Reasoning assessments, gauging students’ ability to judge the credibility of the information that floods their smartphones, tablets, and computer screens.

A toolkit of powerful tools for extending learning and creating informed and critical-thinking adult citizens.

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