CHC2D Unit 1: Thinking Like a Historian

Students learn to think like historians before the content units begin: the difference between the past and history, five types of inquiry questions, primary and secondary sources, a five-question source check, citations and the four concepts of historical thinking. They investigate an original source set about the 1918 influenza in an invented Ontario town and compare two news reports to see how history skills apply to today's issues.

Assessment of learning: Source Detective, a document-based analysis of five sources on how Canadians reacted to the start of World War I, with a four-level rubric and a teacher guide.

Lessons

1. What Is History?
2. Primary and Secondary Sources
3. Historical Thinking
4. Reading the Evidence
5. Historians at Work

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
• Detailed slideshows (15 to 18 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus warm-ups, worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets, with original practice sources and data sets
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview and the summative task with a rubric and teacher guide

Built for the Ontario curriculum (Canadian and World Studies, Grades 9 and 10, 2018), Canadian History since World War I (CHC2D), including the new learning on the Holocaust, the Holodomor and Black Canadian history, and easy to adapt for CHC2P.

Need just one lesson? Single lessons from this unit will also be available for CA$3.99 each.