Updates

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. We have free history lessons and assessments to teach Asian and Pacific Islander history this month and year-round.

Check out our four new Beyond the Bubble history assessments of thinking (HATs). Each assesses students' content knowledge and historical thinking skills.

The assessments are designed to be used formatively. Each follows the same format and taps the same historical thinking skills but presents different documents about which students must reason.

Explore our new classroom materials. Attend our free upcoming webinars.

Join us this summer for online professional development on our history and media literacy classroom materials.

Teaching young people to skillfully sort fact from fiction on the internet is vital work. We’ve developed this resource as a small start toward meeting that need.

Los Angeles Unified School District and the Stanford History Education Group have partnered to develop four new lessons focused on African American history in Los Angeles.

SHEG's pilot program in Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, Illinois, is highlighted in a news report.

Please note that this is not a complete list of our materials that can be used in elementary classrooms. We've heard from many elementary teachers who have successfully scaffolded other lessons and tasks to use with their students. Rather, this is a list of lessons and assessments designed specifically with elementary students in mind or that have been used successfully by elementary teachers with only minor adaptations.

Reading Like a Historian Lesson Plans

Congratulations to Sarah McGrew and Joel Breakstone for winning the National Technology Leadership Initiative Fellowship Award!

We're pleased to be hosting seven professional development institutes in 2022.

Colleges and universities are still offering dated advice for searching the web, according to new research by SHEG staff.

September 15th-October 15th is National Hispanic Heritage Month. We have free history lessons and assessments to teach Hispanic, U.S. Latino, and Latin American history this month and year-round.

"Students have to put the evidence together for themselves and come up with an interpretation that makes sense to them rather than repeating somebody else's story." Watch Sam Wineburg on ABC News.

Wondering how to introduce students to historical thinking? Check out our introductory Reading Like a Historian lessons.

Remind students what questions to ask when reading historical documents with our classroom posters, available in English and Spanish.