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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Combating a Cook-Centric Past through Co-Curricular Learning: Year 9 Dig out Maps and Rulers to Challenge Generalisations about the Age of Discovery
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Worth, Paula – Teaching History, 2014
Paula Worth presents in this article a means of challenging students' tendency to generalise even when they know that they should not. How can teachers encourage their students to say something meaningful about the past while avoiding making unwarranted generalisations? Worth takes teachers through the process of planning her own enquiry…
Descriptors: Generalization, History Instruction, Inquiry, Teaching Methods
"English King Frederick I Won at Arsuf, Then Took Acre, Then They All Went Home": Exploring the Challenges Involved in Reading and Writing Historical Narrative
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Worth, Paula – Teaching History, 2014
Paula Worth draws on three professional traditions in history education in order to build a lesson sequence on the Crusades for her Year 7s. First, she draws on the growing tradition of classroom practice using historical scholarship, not only to inform the teacher's knowledge but to deepen her pupils' direct acquaintance with scholarly…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Historical Interpretation, Teaching Methods, European History
Competition and Counterfactuals without Confusion: Year 10 Play a Game about the Fall of the Tsarist Empire to Improve Their Causal Reasoning
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Worth, Paula – Teaching History, 2012
Paula Worth was searching not only for a rigorous question, capable of engendering genuine debate, but also for an engaging and enjoyable activity that would secure GCSE students' substantive knowledge. The answer--or rather the question--lay in counterfactual thinking: a carefully crafted game that she devised, based on the structure of a game by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Educational Games, Competition
Which Women Were Executed for Witchcraft? And Which Pupils Cared? Low-Attaining Year 8 Use Fiction to Tackle Three Demons: Extended Reading, Diversity and Causation
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Worth, Paula – Teaching History, 2011
Paula Worth was concerned that her low-attaining set were only going through the motions when tackling causal explanation. Identifying, prioritising and weighing causes seemed an empty routine rather than a fascinating puzzle engaging intellect and imagination. She was also concerned that her usual efforts to solve this problem had been misplaced.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students, Grade 7, Low Achievement