Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit for 8th-10th Grade Social Studies
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The amazing resources included with the Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit for 8th-10th Grade Social Studies have been successfully used by thousands of students and come completely ready to use for BOTH in-person and digital learning (via Google Apps)!
The Thinking Like a Historian Unit lays the foundation for your students to succeed in your social studies class! They'll explore and discuss learning strategies that promote and encourage students to think critically, how to effectively examine historical evidence, properly use and cite primary and secondary sources of information, the importance of historical context, as well as many other important topics!
This unit was designed to be flexible and offer you the opportunity to stretch out into 7+ periods, or as short as 5. Students will utilize and implement what they've learned by conducting their own individual research as well as by collaborating with their fellow students in a comprehensive small team activity!
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After this unit, your students will be better able to comprehend and absorb the significance and historical context of subsequent historical events you teach them about!!
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Included with this amazing Unit:
- Unit Outline with Lesson-by-Lesson Overview
- 3 highly curated presentations featuring built-in Discussion Based Questions (DBQ) in both PowerPoint (PPT) & Google Slides formats
- 4 Student Exercise Activities including a team activity and Teacher Answer Keys
- 3 Guided Notes Handouts for students that accompany each presentation and help students record their learnings as they along with each presentation
- 10 links to supplemental videos on YouTube
- Unit Review Activities
- Unit Assessment
The Think Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit covers:
- What it means to think like a historian and how to write like one
- Importance of critical thinking, reason, evidence, bias in information
- How to write an effective argument
- How to properly cite sources in MLA or APA formats
- Contextualization and corroboration of evidence
- and MUCH more!!
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