Social Studies
Flexible Schedule Historical Thinking Skills: Analyzing Sources for Teenagers
Learn five skills to help you in history class and everyday teenage life! You'll learn how to analyze sources to decide if they are trustworthy. Test your skills in an Escape Room on the last day.
11-13
year old learners
6th-7th
US Grade Level
1-15
learners per class
$5
per weekCharged weekly
Flexible schedule
Over 4 weeks
No live meetings
Available times
Pacific
Description
Class Experience
Teenagers are bombarded with information everyday and it is hard to know what to trust and what not to! This class will help students determine how to trust something or not by learning 5 historical thinking skills. These skills will help them analyze primary and secondary sources, determine if sources are credible, and make arguments using evidence from those sources. The skills include: - source: understand the details of a source - determine context: examine the time period in which a...
Teenagers are bombarded with information everyday and they need to know how to digest and analyze all of it! Because students better understand how to analyze and make arguments, they will leave these classes equipped to handle online conversations, fake news, and peer pressure.
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
We will have a review and a test on Seterra during the last week of class.
No live meetings, and maybe some time outside of class.
In class two we will look at primary sources from the Salem Witch Trials. One source is from a young girl who testifies that she has seen the devil. We discuss as a class if we believe her testimony or not.
Teacher
Taylor WirthlinExperienced Social Studies Teacher -- Inspiring a love for the world both past and present
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Lives in the
United States125 total reviews
127 completed classes
About Me
Hello there! My name is Taylor Wade Wirthlin. As a baby my older sister called me Tay-low. As a kid, friends called me Taytor Tot, and as a teenager on the soccer field, I was T.W. Now students simply call me Mrs. W 🙂 My career in history and...
