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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Historiography on Robert Boyle: Was Boyle the Progenitor of Modern Science?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers participate in a warm-up activity by attending a football match writing an account of who won the game. They discuss how their account could differ from someone else's account of the game. They discuss how different...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Creating a Primary Source Archive: All History Is Local

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore personal, local, state, and national history. In this historiography lesson, students search the Library of Congress digital collections for primary sources regarding their family histories framed in local, state, and...
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eBook
George Mason University

George Mason University: Digital History: A Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A detailed guide on how to research and plan a historical project using the Internet and its vast resources. Some of the topics explored are: how to design a website copyright law, how to digitize materials and much more.
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Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Creating a Primary Source Archive: All History Is Local

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A lesson plan where young scholars collect local primary documents and examine the interplay between national, state, local, and personal history.
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Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Immigration and Oral History

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The primary goal of this activity is to give students the genuine experience of oral history in order to appreciate the process of historiography. We identified immigrants in our community who reflect the ethnic diversity of our student...
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Handout
Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Byzantine Studies: Grand Tradition of Byzantine Historiography

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out this site from Fordham University for a compilation of ancient historians and historical traditions surrounding Byazantine history.
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Handout
Then Again

Then Again: Web Chron: The Venerable Bede

For Students 9th - 10th
This NorthPark University site provides information regarding the life and works of St. Bede, "the father of English church history."
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Article
Other

National Humanities Institute: Croce in America

For Students 9th - 10th
Lengthy but informative article traces the fame and decline of Croce's philosophy in the 20th century, as well as his contributions in aesthetics, literary criticism, and historiography. Author argues that Croce's thought deserves a...