Helping Elementary Students Think About History (Grade 5- 8)
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Dr. Roland Case
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October 23, 2007
4:20 pm – 5:59 pm
Session Description
When studying history, many students do very little thinking. Instead, they do lots of "re-searching" of the answers - whether in their textbooks or on the internet - that others have found to historical questions. Few students have the tools to look at the past in a critically thoughtful way. Building on the work of Peter Sexias, Roland Case will illustrate how to embed historical thinking throughout the grades 5-8 social studies curriculum by introducing students to six kinds of problems raised by the study of history.
PLEASE BRING A COPY OF THE SOCIAL STUDIES PROGRAM OF STUDY FOR YOUR GRADE LEVEL AS WELL PRINTING AND BRINGING THREE HANDOUTS BELOW.
 Handout One- Oct 23.pdf
 Handout Two- Oct 23.doc
Handout Three - PPT - Oct 23
* Session Forum- October 23
* During this session Dr Case referred to the book, Teaching About Historical Thinking (by Roland Case, Mike Denos, Penney Clark and Peter Seixas). You can order this book on the TC2 web site.
Dr. Roland Case is co-founder of The Critical Thinking Consortium. He is recently retired as Professor of Social Studies education at Simon Fraser University. Roland has edited or authored over 100 published works including Critical Challenges Across the Curriculum, an award winning series of 21 teaching resources for critical thinking in various subject areas. In addition to his teaching career as an elementary school teacher and as a university professor, Roland has worked with 17,000 classroom teachers across the world. Roland is the 2006 recipient of CUFA's Distinguished Academics Career Achievement Award.
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