Historical+Thinking+Project

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//"Historical thinking is the creative process that historians go through to interpret the evidence of the past and generate the stories of history."//
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Based on the Professional Learning Resource - //The Big Six: Historical Thinking Concepts// http://www.nelson.com/thebigsix/about.html

The Critical Thinking Consortium on Historical Thinking - more information, primary source documents, lesson plans based upon //**The Big Six**// plus a reference guide

1. Historical Significance
What criteria makes an event considered to be historically significant? Students can explore events through this lens: resulted in change that had deep consequences for many people; the event is revealing; the event is relevant.

2. Continuity and Change -
Through this concept, students are encouraged to explore what is different and what is the same in the lives and conditions of people and historical events. Great resource from Scholastic - Flip Perspectives - http://education.scholastic.ca/productlist/FLIP_POINTOFVIEW

**3. Evidence**
How can we better understand people in the past? Historical events or situations involve people who may have diverse persepctives on it. Exploring these issues is a key to understanding the event.

**4. Ethical Dimension**
Historians attempt to hold back on explicit ethical judgments about actors in the midst of their accounts, but, when all is said and done, if the story is meaningful, then there is an ethical judgment involved. We should expect to learn something from the past that helps us to face the ethical issues of today.

How can we ever understand the past?
 * 5. Historical Perspective**

Students learn to see the multiple causes of different historical events, and the long term consequences of events.
 * 6. Cause and Consequence**

====**Historial Thinking Project Resources** - a page chalk-full of addintional resources to support your classroom! **NEW Links **====

I Learn 2012 - Historical Thinking Project Presentation Handout - Jade Ballek

**__Being Creative with Evidence:__ thanks to Karielle Willner, Davidson, for connecting the phases of Creativity to Historical Thinking**
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