Updates

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.

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Remind students what questions to ask when reading historical documents with our classroom posters, available in English and Spanish.

Announcing SHEG’s summer professional development institutes

A new article in Forbes highlights the research conducted by the Stanford History Education Group on how people struggle to sort fact from fiction on the internet.

SHEG receives UNESCO award for Civic Online Reasoning curriculum

Teach students to evaluate historical significance with our Olympics Protest and parallel History Assessments of Thinking (HATs).

Read for some ideas on how you can use our Beyond the Bubble assessments to help students learn the historical thinking skills of sourcing and contextualization.

Peruse a list of our history lessons and assessments that ask students to evaluate pieces of visual art.

Join SHEG for a three-day institute in August: Inquiry-Based Social Studies Instruction Online.

Explore a list of lessons and assessments with a focus on African American activism.

Teaching history at home? You can use our Reading Like a Historian lessons to help students learn to critically evaluate historical images.