Mystery Object Exercise
Channel: teachinghistoryorg
Date: 2010-11-10

Elspeth Inglis and Kim Laing explore the benefits of teaching history with artifacts, not just text. Based on their own experiences with teaching children and history educators, they suggest introducing an unfamiliar object to students and letting students form their own hypotheses about the object's identity. The questioning skills learned from such active, inquisitive engagement with objects can invigorate both learning and teaching.

http://www.teachinghistory.org/tah-grants/lessons-learned/23961