Description
Want your students to see history as connected to the real world instead of a list of dates and facts? Are you looking for cross-curricular history lessons that strengthen literacy, science, and math skills at the same time? Cross-curricular teaching increases student engagement, retention, and critical thinking, and interdisciplinary lessons help students apply learning to real-world situations and standardized assessments. In this course, Michelle Dragalin shows you how to teach the power of perspective through history units that blend primary source reading and analysis, scientific discoveries of the time period, and simple data interpretation so students think deeper, spot bias, and communicate their understanding with confidence.
Objectives
Identify key historical events, inventions, and figures connected to a selected historical period.
Explain how scientific and mathematical developments influenced historical change.
Use mathematical skills to analyze historical data and connect trends to historical context.
Compare primary source documents to identify perspectives and biases from different stakeholders.
Assess the impact of scientific innovations and mathematical discoveries on society during the period studied.
Design an interdisciplinary project that synthesizes language arts, science, math, and history to answer an essential historical question.
