This online collection of resources complements the print publication, Teaching Historical Thinking (Revised and expanded edition).
The following resources support specific lessons in the print publication.
Thinking historically with source documents
Sample unit: Assessing Simon Fraser’s legacy
Read around the document
Assembling evidence
Unit launch: Canada’s record in international affairs during the twentieth century
Lesson challenge #2.1: Selecting Canada’s greatest military contributions to World War II
Lesson challenge #3.1: Graphing Canada-US relations, 1945-2000
Unit finale: Evaluating Canada’s international role, 1914 to 2000
Historical significance
This video introduces students to the factors that determine what and who from the past should be remembered, researched, taught and learned (7:14 minutes)
Canada West and Confederation
Canada East and Confederation
Analyze the account
Evidence and interpretation
This video introduces the validation, interpretation and use of primary and secondary sources of historical information in the construction of historical accounts and arguments (6:55 minutes)
Eyewitness accounts of the Regina Riot
Daily life in WW I internment camps
Continuity and change
This videos explains how lives and conditions are alike over periods of time and how they changed for people and societies that came before and after (6:19 minutes)
False Creek, 1979 and 1994
Explain the image
Cause and consequence
This video considers who or what influenced history and what were the repercussions of these changes (6:20 minutes)
Historical perspective
This video discusses the viewing of the past through the social, intellectual, emotional and ethical lenses of the time (5:53 minutes)
Missionaries in New France
Ethical judgment
This video explores assessing the past and the implications of past actions in light of past and present norms about the appropriate treatment of others (6:53 minutes)
U-shaped discussion
Assembling evidence