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Learning Objectives

  • Make inferences based on text evidence
  • Examine primary source material
  • Use evidence to answer the question, “What are these students learning about?”

Overview

Historians observe. In this introduction to inquire lesson, students learn some of the skills and strategies historians use to learn about the past. Students will look at an image of a classroom from the past and try to figure out what the class is learning about.

iCivics en español! Student and class materials for this mystery are available in Spanish.

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EL/ML
Spanish
ELA/Literacy
History Connection
Inquiry-based
Primary Source
Vocabulary
Writing
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