Enhancing Historical Thinking Through Discipline-based Inquiry

This teacher’s guide, developed through a Small Projects Grant, seeks to provide insight into how the eight principles of the Galileo Educational Network’s Discipline-based Rubric for Inquiry Studies can enhance the conceptual framework of historical thinking articulated by Dr. Peter Seixas and colleagues at The Historical Thinking Project. To show what this could look like in practice, I recently collaborated with Jody Pereverrzoff and Chris Dittmann of Connect Charter School in Calgary to create and document a grade 7 historical inquiry into pre-Confederation Canadian history. As can be seen, throughout this resource I have imbedded links to web pages, articles, and videos that will help the reader gain a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of the ideas and insights explored in each of the five chapters.

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Enhancing Historical Thinking Through Discipline-based Inquiry: A Teacher’s Resource by David Scott.

David Scott