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Maartje van der Eem; Jannet van Drie; Saskia Brand-Gruwel; Carla van Boxtel – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
Fake news and disinformation are easily spread in today's digital society. Therefore, it is important that students learn how to evaluate the trustworthiness of online information, but this skill is often confined to a limited number of subjects in secondary education. History classes can potentially contribute to developing this skill. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Internet, Grade 9, Secondary School Students
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McDonnell, Liam – Teaching History, 2019
Struck by his GCSE students' bewildered expressions when studying source extracts, Liam McDonnell decided to adopt a new approach to source analysis. Inspired by the work of other history teachers, McDonnell decided to use an anthology of substantial sources when studying nineteenth-century Whitechapel in London. By revisiting the sources at…
Descriptors: Historians, History, History Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Kohlmeier, Jada – Social Education, 2004
Students' views on history inspired the author to reflect on her own teaching and to explore historical thinking. She decided to research the impact of a three-step approach to reading primary documents on ninth grade world history students, she was curious as to whether developing and using a consistent series of strategies with various primary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Reading, Grade 9, Teaching Methods