Historical Thinking
“The Historical Thinking Project was designed to foster a new approach to history education — with the potential to shift how teachers teach and how students learn, in line with recent international research on history learning. It revolves around the proposition that historical thinking — like scientific thinking in science instruction and mathematical thinking in math instruction — is central to history instruction and that students should become more competent as historical thinkers as they progress through their schooling. The project developed a framework of six historical thinking concepts to provide a way of communicating complex ideas to a broad and varied audience of potential users.”
The Canadian Encyclopedia – Historical Thinking Concepts
The Critical Thinking Consortium has a series of short videos explaining each concept, as well as additional resources and lesson plans focused on each concept.
