Smithsonian Education | Be a History Detective: Promoting Historical Thinking Skills in Young Learners @SmithsonianEducation | Uploaded July 2023 | Updated October 2024, 12 minutes ago.
Anyone can be a history detective! Participants learned how history experts at the Smithsonian used important social-emotional learning skills like perspective-taking, critical thinking, and communication in their work and how they exercised their history detective skills in the classroom and beyond. Participants heard directly from Smithsonian experts on how to use museum collections to incorporate historical thinking strategies into lesson plans to help students build empathy, think critically about the past, and develop civil discourse skills.
Speakers:
Ariel Moon
Eden Cho
Maureen Leary
Meera Munoz Pandya
Anyone can be a history detective! Participants learned how history experts at the Smithsonian used important social-emotional learning skills like perspective-taking, critical thinking, and communication in their work and how they exercised their history detective skills in the classroom and beyond. Participants heard directly from Smithsonian experts on how to use museum collections to incorporate historical thinking strategies into lesson plans to help students build empathy, think critically about the past, and develop civil discourse skills.
Speakers:
Ariel Moon
Eden Cho
Maureen Leary
Meera Munoz Pandya
