Reading Like a Historian Intro Lessons
Wondering how to introduce students to historical thinking? Check out our introductory Reading Like a Historian lessons.
Updates
Reading Like a Historian Classroom Posters
Remind students what questions to ask when reading historical documents with our classroom posters, available in English and Spanish.
Summer 2021 Professional Development
Announcing SHEG’s summer professional development institutes
The Need for Civic Online Reasoning
A new article in Forbes highlights the research conducted by the Stanford History Education Group on how people struggle to sort fact from fiction on the internet.
SHEG receives UNESCO award for Civic Online Reasoning curriculum
SHEG receives UNESCO award for Civic Online Reasoning curriculum
History Assessments for Evaluating Iconic Photographs
Teach students to evaluate historical significance with our Olympics Protest and parallel History Assessments of Thinking (HATs).
Teaching Sourcing & Contextualization with HATs
Read for some ideas on how you can use our Beyond the Bubble assessments to help students learn the historical thinking skills of sourcing and contextualization.
Evaluating Art as Historical Evidence
Peruse a list of our history lessons and assessments that ask students to evaluate pieces of visual art.
August Professional Development Institutes
Join SHEG for a three-day institute in August: Inquiry-Based Social Studies Instruction Online.
Evaluating Photographs with RLH
Teaching history at home? You can use our Reading Like a Historian lessons to help students learn to critically evaluate historical images.
Opening Up the Textbook (OUT) for Online Learning
Tips for how to teach our Opening Up the Textbook (OUT) lessons to distance learners.
Intro Materials for Learning at Home
Check out our intro materials to help you get started with the Reading Like a Historian curriculum.
History Assessments for Distance Learning
Get an idea for how you can use our free history assessments to teach students various historical thinking skills!
Getting Started with Reading Like a Historian Lessons
Looking for history materials for distance learning? Explore our Reading Like a Historian curriculum for over 150 free document-based lessons!
Civic Online Reasoning in the New York Times
The New York Times featured our COR curriculum.