The big six historical thinking concepts
By: Authors, Dr. Peter Seixas, Tom Morton
Contributors: Morton, Tom, author
Publisher: Nelson College Indigenous
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780176664695; 9780176541545
Subjects: Historiography
Other titles: Big 6 historical thinking concepts
Description: Each chapter begins by featuring where a prominent Canadian author has engaged one of the six concepts while writing a work of popular history or historical fiction."--Pub. desc.

Authors Peter Seixas and Tom Morton provide a guide to bring powerful understandings of these six historical thinking concepts into the classroom through teaching strategies and model activities.

"How does history become meaningful to students? When they see it as a mystery to be solved, an interpretation to be challenged, and a way to see themselves in the larger fabric of human experience.
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DVD-ROM includes guideposts, figures and captions, modifiable blackline masters, assessment tools and question banks for each chapter

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical Significance; title: Evidence; title: Continuity and Change; title: Cause and Consequence; title: Historical Perspectives; title: The Ethical Dimension; title: Index of Activities.