Teaching for Understanding challenges students to connect learning to large scale themes that are central to the discipline being studied while enabling students to apply what they have learned outside of the original discipline or subject.

Teaching for Understanding with "Primary Source Investigation"

Students build understanding with the "Primary Source Investigations" Model Activity by:

  • examining a primary source with an investigative question and an analysis tool to develop a conclusion or hypothesis
  • comparing the hypothesis with previous knowledge and experience related to a big idea central to the subject under study

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