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Article 2: Historians (taught with “I Can Be a Historian”) Word Count: 17 Vocabulary: historian: people who study history High Impact Teaching Strategies: Collaborative Learning, Multiple Exposures, Questioning Lesson Plan: 1. Review what was learned previously about history. Have the students explain to a partner what history is, using the following sentence stem. a. History is __________. (everything that happened in the past) 2. Read the article “Historians” together as the students follow along. Point out the bolded vocabulary word. Have the students highlight what historians do as you read. Write what they do on the board. (study history, ask questions, learn about the past) 3. Explain that there are people who study history. They are called historians. Have the students repeat the word “historians'' after you. Together, count the number of syllables in the word. 4. Read the article “I Can Be a Historian” together as the students follow along. Explain that everyone can be a historian. We can all learn about history. Refer to the list made on the board about what historians do. Explain that we can ask questions, and we can learn about the past. 5. Show the Poster Pal activity “Asking Questions About History” Point out the words “Who?” “What?” “Where?” “When?” “How?” Remind students that these are the types of questions that we can ask. They are questions that historians ask. Go through and discuss each type of question. 6. Tell the students that today, they are going to be historians. Explain that you are going to show them images from the past. The students are going to ask questions to learn about the image and the event shown in it. 7. Using the images included in related media, and the images on the Poster Pal, play 20 Questions. Students will ask questions about the image to see if they can figure out what the picture is showing and what the object is used for. a. Show the image “Computer Long Ago.” Have the students use the question types on the board to see if they can guess what the image is showing and what the object is used for. Give small hints if the students get stuck or stray too far from the object. b. After the students guess, show the image “Computer Today” to show the students they were right. c. Discuss the image and what we can learn about history from the image. d. Repeat with the other images. Each time, show the image from the past first and then have the students ask questions. After they ask questions, show the image from the present. e. Label each image on the Poster Pal. 8. Recap the lesson. Discuss how the students were historians. They asked questions. They learned about the past. 9. Extension activity: Have the students pick an object in the classroom. Have them practice playing 20 Questions with a partner to see if they can guess what the object is.
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