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Short essays on the pedagogical methods behind our classroom materials

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Historical Thinking in Elementary Classrooms

Black and white newsboys posing in front of a stone building holding stacks of newspapers.

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
April 7, 2022

Classroom Materials, Resources

Seven Strategies for Teaching Primary Sources

Partly hand-drawn, partly printed diagram of Böhme's image of the cosmology of the universe. The universe is represented through a large circle that takes up most of the page. Where the circle meets the four corners of the page are four key elements. Clockwise from the upper left, these are law (represented by a sword), Gospel (represented by a hand extending from a cloud and holding flowers), Resignation (represented by a man kneeling at an altar on which an offering is burning), and Self (represented by a man holding a quill pen and kneeling before an altar that is spewing clouds). Within the circle there is a XY axis with the human heart where the lines meet. Elements of the Christian Trinity are at the ends of three of the axes (the Father on left horizontal, the Son on the upright vertical, and the Holy Ghost on the right horizontal). Two large semicircles take up most of the plain. They mirror each other, both with their centers at the ends of the horizontal axes, and their edges running from the top of the vertical axis to the heart at the center of the axes to the bottom of the vertical axis. The left-hand semicircle is shaded. Within both are numerous numbered and labeled points representing various elements and aspects of the soul.

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
April 5, 2022

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Why Inquiry-Based Learning?

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
April 5, 2022