Introduction -- Using critical thinking skills in history -- Using primary sources -- Ancient civilizations -- Early Christian era -- Eleventh-fourteenth centuries -- Fifteenth-sixteenth centuries -- Seventeenth-eighteenth centuries -- Nineteenth century -- Twentieth century -- Selected primary source databases -- Index
Summary
"History teachers and school library media specialists will find this guide a valuable resource for creating technologically advanced, resource-based instructional units in American and World History in grades 7-12. It is filled with 150 recommended primary source Internet sites about history ranging from ancient civilizations to 1998 and is stocked with exciting, interesting, and challenging questions designed to stimulate students' critical thinking skills. Dr. Craver, who maintains an interactive Internet database and conducts technology workshops for school library media specialists, provides a tool to enable students to make the best use of the Internet for the study of history."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis
Critical thinking -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States
Electronic information resource literacy -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States
High school libraries -- Activity programs -- United States
History -- Sources -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States
History -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States
Junior high school libraries -- Activity programs -- United States
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-245) and index
