BASIC DETECTIVE SKILLS
For Middle and High School Teachers
History Detectives is a great resource for you and your students.
Within this site you will find two sets of lesson plans that focus investigations around two areas: visiting a historic site and searching for attic artifacts. The lessons integrate national and state standards for learning.
The first set allows students to discover the importance of local historical sites using research both on and off site.
The second set of lessons allows students to discover the hidden histories that their own attics, basements, and garages hold. We hope you enjoy integrating the History Detectives Web site into learning opportunities for you and your students.
- Unit 1: Before We Travel, We Research
- Unit 2: At the Site, A Scavenger Hunt
- Unit 3: Writing a Historical Poem
- Unit 4: Interviewing a Parent
- Unit 5: Searching the Attic
- Unit 6: Observation
- Unit 7: Classification
- Unit 8: Predicting/Making a Hypothesis
- Unit 9: Conceptualizing an Experiment
- Unit 10: Testing the Hypothesis
Resources for Historical Research
Go to PBS Teachers for more than 3000+ lesson plans and activities.
