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**Topics on the Page**

 * Active Learning **
 * **Student Engagement**
 * **Lectures, Attention Span and Student Learning**
 * **Lesson Planning**
 * Using Literature in the Classroom **
 * Picture Books
 * YA and Adult Literature
 * Graphic Books


 * Primary Sources **


 * Group Work and Cooperative Learning **


 * Analytical Writing and Poetry Writing **


 * Role Plays and Simulations **

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**Active Learning**

 * "Active learning is the combination of teaching, environment and technology that supports student-centered learning by encouraging students to actively participate in the learning process" (from the K-20 Active Learning Landscape, Center for Digital Education, 2016)**

[|Active Learning] from the National Dropout Prevention Center/Network

[|Active Learning Increases Student Performance in Science, Engineering and Mathematics], Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, April 2014  Improving Students' Learning with Effective Learning Techniques, Psychological Science in the Public Interest (2013)
 * These results indicate that average examination scores improved by about 6% in active learning sections, and that students in classes with traditional lecturing were 1.5 times more likely to fail than were students in classes with active learning

[|Teaching Tactics that Encourage Active Learning] from the Critical Thinking Community blog

Teaching Methods: The What, Why and How of Student Centered Learning, Science Resource Center, Carleton College

How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching. Michele DiPietro, Kennesaw State University

What To Look For in a Classroom, Alfie Kohn (September 1996)

Student Engagement

 * "Student engagement refers to the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion students show when they are learning or being** **taught, which extends to the level of motivation they have to learn and progress in their education" (Glossary of Education Reform, 2016)**
 * [|The School Cliff: Student Engagement Drops with Each Grade Level] from Gallup polls, 2013 & 2015
 * Grade 5. 75%
 * Grade 8 45%
 * Grade 10. 33%
 * Grade 12. 34%

[|Grabbing Students: Boost Student Success by Increasing Their Engagement in Learning], American Psychological Association, June 2015

How Do We Know When Students Are Engaged? Edutopia

[|Why Are They Disengaged? My Students Told Me Why] from Blogging Through the Fourth Dimension

**Lectures, Attention Span and Student Learning**
[|Are College Lectures Unfair?] Annie Murphy Paul, //The New York Times//, September 12, 2015
 * [|Michael Yell on Making Every History Lecture Engaging] from TeachingHistory.org
 * Michael Yell on [|Discrepant Event Inquiry]
 * [|Guided Notes]from The Ohio State University

[|Why Do So Many High School History Teachers Lecture So Much?] from Grant Wiggins

Who Needs Lectures? Vermont Medical School Chooses Other Ways to Teach, The Boston Globe (February 1, 2017)
 * Saying Goodbye to Lectures in Medical School--Paradigm Shift or Passing Fad? //New England Journal of Medicine// (August 2017)


 * Go here to [|see a history lecture] that Grant Wiggins chose to illustrate non-active learning
 * See An Ignorant History Class, a Jerry Seinfeld skit on Saturday Night Live


 * [|The Science of Attention: How To Capture and Hold the Attention of Easily Distracted Students]**

[|David McCullough's 5 Lessons Every High School Student Should Learn] on YouTube

[|NAEP U.S. History, Geography and Civics 2014 scores]

Lesson Planning

 * 5 Learning Design Principles on Lesson Structure That Help People Learn**

Strategies for Effective Lesson Planning from University of Michigan

Lesson Plans and Unit Plans: The Basis for Instruction, The New Teacher's Companion, Gail Cunnigham (ASCD, 2009)

The New Teacher's Guide to Creating Lesson Plans. Scholastic

Writing Lesson Plans

What is Understanding by Design (UbD)

**Picture Books, Young Adult and Adult** **Literature and Graphic Books**

 * How to Choose the Best Multicultural Books: 50 Selections**



[[image:rotating gif.gif width="43" height="43"]]Go to our sister wiki Teaching Resources for English

 * Resources for teaching the novels, including
 * ====1984 and Animal Farm====
 * ====The Great Gatsby====
 * ====The Grapes of Wrath====
 * ====The Crucible====
 * ====Walden====
 * ====Fahrenheit 451====

[|Books That Shaped America] from the Library of Congress

[|Notable Social Studies Tradebooks 2014]

[|Study: Let Kids Pick Their Own Books] (May 20, 2015)

[|Bringing Great Historical Literature into the Classroom: An Annotated Bibliography] from the JFK Library

[|Lesson Plans for American History and Literature f]rom the National Humanities Center


 * [[image:Screen Shot 2016-10-28 at 12.13.15 PM.png width="64" height="57"]]Comic Books and Graphic Novels as Teaching Methods **



[|But This Book Has Pictures! The Case for Graphic Novels in an AP Classroom]

[|Comic Books in the History Classroom] from Teachinghistory.org

[|Using Superhero Comics to Teach English and History] from Edutopia (April 13, 2014)

[|Why Teach with Comics?] from Reading with Pictures

[|20 Ways to Use Comics in the Your Classroom]

See also, [|No Flying No Tights], a blog about excellent graphic books for use in the classroom.

[|Comic Books as Journalism: 10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction], The Atlantic, August 10, 2011

[|A Graphic Literature Library], Time, November 2003.

[|Strange Fruit, Volume 1: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History]. Joel Christian Gill, 2014

For an historical perspective, see [|Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency: Comic Books, "Soda-Pop," and Societal Harm]" that includes audio from the hearings from April 21, 1954.

[|Banned Books Week: Comics and Controversy] from University of Missouri Libraries

[|The Comic Book Code of 1954]

television program, October 9, 1955. Includes interview with Senator Estes Kefauver. Kefauver, Democratic Vice-President Candidate in 1956, was a leading critic of comic books.

[|Supreme Court Protects First Amendment Rights for Entertainment & New Medias] in //Brown v. EMA// Decision

[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Documents_icon.svg/200px-Documents_icon.svg.png width="60" height="68"]]**Teaching with Primary Sources**

 * Collections of Primary Source Materials**

[|Teaching with Documents]from the National Archives. Includes forms for analyzing written documents, artifacts, cartoons, maps, motion pictures, photographs, posters and sound recordings.

[|Teacher's Guides and Analysis Tools] from Library of Congress: Includes forms for analyzing documents, political cartoons, books, newspapers, music and songs, maps and photographs

[|AP Archive], the film and video archive of The Associated Press on YouTube. See also [|British Movietone], the world's largest newsreel archive covering events from 1895 to 1986

[|Student Discovery Sets]for iPads, free from Library of Congress on the U.S. Constitution, Symbols of the US, Immigration, Dust Bowl, Harlem Renaissance, and Understanding the Cosmos

[|Adapting Documents for the Classroom: Equity and Access] from Teachinghistory.org

[|America in Class:] Primary Source Materials from the National Humanities Center

For more collections of primary sources, see the Web Resources for Teachers page on this wiki


 * Strategies for Teaching with Primary Materials**

[|Teaching with Primary Sources]from Learn North Carolina

[|Michael Yell's Strategies for Using Primary Sources in Your Classroom] from Teachinghistory.org

[|Reading Like an Historian]lesson plans from Stanford History Education Group

[|A Guide to Reading Primary Sources], University of Pennsylvania

Top 10 Considerations When Using Primary Sources in Grades 8 - 12, National Council for History Education


 * Primary Source Lesson Plans**

[|Teaching Future Historians: U.S. History Lesson Plans using Primary Documents]from Illinois Historical Digitization Projects

[|Using Works of Art in Teaching American History] from Glider Lehrman Institute of American Art

[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Group_people_icon.jpg width="80" height="45"]]**Cooperative Learning and Groupwork**
Students Must Be Taught to Collaborate, Studies Say. Education Week (May 16, 2017)

Cooperative Learning for Engagement

Cooperative Learning from Learn North Carolina

[|Group work: Using Cooperative Learning Groups Effectively] from Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University

**Cooperative Learning Formats**

 * [|The Jigsaw Classroom]
 * Graffiti Groups
 * Think-Pair Shares
 * [|In Any Case: Conducting a Mock Trial] from The New York Times Learning Network

[|Female Peers in Small Work Groups Enhance Women's Motivation, Verbal Participation and Career Aspirations in Engineering]. Nilanjana Dasgupta, et. al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2015.
 * Having a high concentration of women in engineering teams allows women students to participate more actively, shrug off worries and feel confident.
 * Study done at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with 120 undergraduate engineering students
 * Importance of small groups or micro environments composed mostly of women or men and women in equal numbers instead of groups that are mostly male

[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/P_writing_icon.svg/200px-P_writing_icon.svg.png width="60" height="60"]]**Writing**
[|Evidence-Based Historical Writing] from TeachingHistory.org

[|Writing in the Social Studies Classroom]from Colonial Williamsburg

[|Journals in a Facing History Classroom] from Facing History and Ourselves

[|Creative Writing in the History Classroom] from Teaching United States History blog

[|Writing]from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



Click here for Poetry Writing Resources
[|Poetic Form: Cento Poems]

[|Nurturing the Omnivore: Approaches to Teaching Poetry] from the Poetry Foundation

**Role Plays and Simulations**
[|If There Is No Struggle . . . Teaching a People's History of the Abolition Movement] from the Zinn Education Project

[|You Are There: Historical Simulations] from Cengage