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Author: Bruce Lesh
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ISBN: 1571108122

"Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer?": Teaching Historical Thinking in Grades 7-12

Every major measure of students' historical understanding since 1917 has demonstrated that students do not retain, understand, or enjoy their school experiences with history. Download "Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer?": Teaching Historical Thinking in Grades 7-12 from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Bruce Lesh believes that this is due to the way we teach history-lecture and memorization. Over the last fifteen years, Bruce has refined a method of teaching history that mirrors the process used by historians, where students are taught to ask questions of evidence and develop historical explanations. And now in his new book "Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer?" he shows teachers how to successfully implement his methods in the classroom.Students may think they want to be given the answer. Yet, when they are actively engaged in investigating the past-the Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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