ETE 375

Progress is Our Most Valued Product Big Question: How do we maintain a relatively positive tone, as a takeaway or charge for students, without only leaving them with the "happily ever after" mindset? Website : This site offers an analysis of the image I have chosen and the concept of Westward Expansion and how it was the idea of progress in the late 1800s. Screencast Link

Civic Standards ScreenCast Link Big Question: Considering this current political atmosphere, how has civic education changed?  Website: This is an interactive game for students to hear about the policy of Abraham Lincoln. It asks students engaging and higher order thinking questions. 

                                                         Down The Memory Hole Big Question:  How effective is it to use the sasha and zamani terms in my classroom to teach historical perspective and to explain the dilemma of teaching history in the modern age?  ScreenCast Link Website : This website is an outline of a history course that is taught backwards, from the present to 1850s! It encourages students to understand material that relates to them and then build upon that to understand how the past is related. I really like this concept and would like to use it in my classroom. 

Understanding History Curriculum: An Inquiry-based Field Screencast Link Big Question: Given that students may be at differing comprehension and prior knowledge levels, how can I ensure that they are asking critical questions?  Website:  This is an article that crafts an inquiry technique called the Question Formulation Technique. I really like the stages it explains for an inquiry-integrated classroom.