What do
historians do? By 3rd or 4th grade, I suspect, most
students, can tell us that historians “tell us about the past”. Telling
students that history is the study of the past is an idea they have heard many
times. You need to push students to dig deeper into the nature of studying the past.
Ask
students: How do we know about the past? (parents, teachers, books, museums,
historical sites: battlefields, preserved homes)
When textbooks
come up, which is often quite quickly, discuss the following questions: Who
wrote your textbook? How do you think choices were made about what to include
and exclude from this history textbook? Can we trust the accuracy of the
information presented in textbooks? What does it mean to trust the accuracy of
information?
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