August Professional Development Institutes
Join SHEG for a three-day institute in August: Inquiry-Based Social Studies Instruction Online.
Updates
Asian and Pacific Islander History Materials
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.
Evaluating Photographs with RLH
Teaching history at home? You can use our Reading Like a Historian lessons to help students learn to critically evaluate historical images.
Opening Up the Textbook (OUT) for Online Learning
Tips for how to teach our Opening Up the Textbook (OUT) lessons to distance learners.
Intro Materials for Learning at Home
Check out our intro materials to help you get started with the Reading Like a Historian curriculum.
History Assessments for Distance Learning
Get an idea for how you can use our free history assessments to teach students various historical thinking skills!
Getting Started with Reading Like a Historian Lessons
Looking for history materials for distance learning? Explore our Reading Like a Historian curriculum for over 150 free document-based lessons!
Civic Online Reasoning in the New York Times
The New York Times featured our COR curriculum.
New Year, New History Materials 2020
New Year, New History Materials! Explore all of our new history lessons and assessments.
Sam Wineburg on MSNBC
"Our students are driving on the information highway without so much as a driver's license." Watch Sam Wineburg on MSNBC.
New Civic Online Reasoning Website
Our Civic Online Reasoning curriculum is now available!
Washington Post Article
Our latest research is featured by The Washington Post.
Research Featured by The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Students Fall for Misinformation Online. Is Teaching Them to Read Like Fact Checkers the Answer?" Read about SHEG's research in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
How We Can Teach Gen Z a Better Kind of Media Literacy
In his latest article, featured in Pacific Standard, Sam Wineburg discusses how to teach students a better kind of media literacy.
The Internet is Sowing Mass Confusion. We Must Rethink How We Teach Kids Every Subject.
In his latest op-ed, Sam Wineburg writes that "bringing education into the 21st century demands that we rethink how we teach every subject in the curriculum."