History teachers and school library media specialists will find
this guide a valuable resource for creating technologically
advanced, resource-based instructional units in American and World
History in grades 7-12. It is filled with 150 recommended primary
source Internet sites about history ranging from ancient
civilizations to 1998 and is stocked with exciting, interesting,
and challenging questions designed to stimulate students' critical
thinking skills. Dr. Craver, who maintains an award-winning
interactive Internet database and conducts technology workshops for
school library media specialists, provides an indispensable tool to
enable students to make the best use of the Internet for the study
of history. Each site is accompanied by a summary that describes
its contents and usefulness to history teachers and school library
media specialists. The questions that follow are designed
specifically to stimulate critical thinking skills. Critical
thinking skills are deemed essential for students if they are to
succeed academically and economically in the twenty-first century.
An annotated appendix of selected primary source databases includes
the Internet addresses for 60 additional primary source sites.
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