Free lesson: Reading the Evidence (Grade 10 History)

This is a complete lesson from CHC2D Unit 1, Thinking Like a Historian, free to download and use. It's exactly what you get in the paid units, so you can see the quality before you buy.

Students learn See, Think, Wonder for images and how to read cartoons and statistics, then work with an original source set about the fall of 1918 in Cedar Falls, an invented Ontario town: a 13-year-old's diary, a Board of Health notice, a photograph description and weekly case and death figures. They corroborate sources, describe a trend and write a conclusion with evidence and an honest limit.

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan with curriculum expectations, learning goals, success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation and an answer guide
• A 15-slide deck with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend
• Student handouts: the Cedar Falls, 1918 source set and the Evidence to Conclusion organizer
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs

Like it? The full Thinking Like a Historian unit has 5 lessons, and the complete CHC2D course covers the whole semester.