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Historical Inquiry to Challenge the Narrative of Racial Progress
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Santiago, Maribel – Cognition and Instruction, 2019
This article explores how a curricular intervention that merges antiessentialist historical content and historical inquiry plays a role in how students complicate the narrative of racial progress. The 3-day curricular intervention centers on "Mendez v. Westminster," a case about 1940s Mexican American school segregation. The content and…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Inquiry, Racial Bias, Curriculum
Build Skills by Doing History
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Monte-Sano, Chauncey – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
No Child Left Behind has profoundly limited the teaching of history over the past 10 years. Now, the Common Core State Standards offers an opportunity to reverse this decline by giving history a more prominent place in the school curriculum alongside literacy goals. Learning history and argumentative writing is key to developing analytical ways of…
Descriptors: State Standards, United States History, History Instruction, Curriculum
Reading, Thinking, and Writing about History: Teaching Argument Writing to Diverse Learners in the Common Core Classroom, Grades 6-12. Common Core State Standards in Literacy Series
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Monte-Sano, Chauncey; De La Paz, Susan; Felton, Mark – Teachers College Press, 2014
Although the Common Core and C3 Framework highlight literacy and inquiry as central goals for social studies, they do not offer guidelines, assessments, or curriculum resources. This practical guide presents six research-tested historical investigations along with all corresponding teaching materials and tools that have improved the historical…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Writing Instruction, Literacy
A Case Study of Technology-Enhanced Historical Inquiry
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Yang, Shu Ching – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2009
The paper describes the integration of web resources and technology as instructional and learning tools in oral history projects. The computer-mediated oral history project centred around interviews with community elders combined with new technologies to engage students in authentic historical inquiry. The study examined learners' affective…
Descriptors: Oral History, Computer Literacy, Internet, History Instruction
The Effects of Multimedia-Supported Problem-Based Inquiry on Student Engagement, Empathy, and Assumptions about History
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Brush, Thomas; Saye, John – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2008
This research extends a continuing line of inquiry investigating how multimedia resources might be joined with other support structures to effectively implement problem-based inquiry (PBI) activities in secondary history classrooms. Two history teachers with experience in PBI implemented a technology-supported problem-based civil rights unit in…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Inquiry, Learner Engagement, Empathy
"You Think for Me, so I Don't Have To." The Effect of a Technology-Enhanced, Inquiry Learning Environment on Student Learning in 11th-Grade United States History
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Friedman, Adam M.; Heafner, Tina L. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2007
In a study investigating the effects of student engagement in inquiry learning through the development of Web sites, nearly every student reported having enjoyed the project, and the majority scored an A or B for their project grade. However, neither enjoyment nor high achievement on this performance task necessarily translated into high scores on…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 11, United States History, History Instruction