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Abstract

This book will help students learn Colorado history by doing it. As teachers, we know how challenging it can be to get students interested in history. We also know that teachers with busy schedules would appreciate a tool to help them to address social studies. State and national standards for social studies emphasize interpretive and critical thinking skills, even for younger students. Yet we found few examples of how to guide elementary students as they develop these. When Todd was teaching high school history, he once got this question from a student: “Where does the history textbook get the official story of America’s past? Is there a government vault somewhere like Fort Knox where the original version is kept?” This question sparked a revealing conversation about just what it meant to reconstruct history from different kinds of evidence

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