"Why won't you just tell us the answer?"
Subtitle: teaching historical thinking in grades 7-12
By: Bruce A. Lesh ; foreword by Ed Ayres
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Portland, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781571108128; 9781571109064
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); History
Notes: Reinventing my classroom : making historical thinking reality -- Introducing historical thinking : Nat Turner's Rebellion of 1831 -- Text, subtext, and context : evaluating evidence and  exploring President Theodore Roosevelt and the Panama Canal -- Using the Rail Strike of 1877 to teach chronological thinking and causality -- "Revolution in the air" : Using the Bonus March of 1932 to   teach multiple perspectives -- Continuity and change over time : Custer's last stand or the Battle of the greasy grass? -- Long or short? : using the civil rights movement to teach historical significance --  Trying on the shoes of historical actors : using the Truman-MacArthur Debate to teach historical empathy -- How am I supposed to do this every day? : historical investigations versus sleep -- Overcoming the barrier to change.

Includes bibliographical references and index.