Resource of the Week - HSI: Historical Scene Investigation

The Historical Scene Investigation Project guides students through consulting primary sources to decode the past, compare multiple points of view, and draw conclusions based upon the evidence. Current investigations include Jamestown Starving Time, Bacon's Rebellion, The Boston "Massacre", Constitution Controversy, Children in the Civil War, School Desegregation, march on Frankfort, and more.

Each investigation is presented like a case file and provides both a student view and a teacher view. The student view provides links to primary source documents and instructions for analyzing the sources. Students must determine who authored the documents and for what purpose, what the documents try to convey, where the points of view differ, etc. The teacher view provides background information, standards correlations, and implementation ideas.

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