"The Historical Thinking Project was designed to foster a new approach to history education — with the potential to shift how teachers teach and how students learn, in line with recent international research on history learning. It revolves around the proposition that historical thinking — like scientific thinking in science instruction and mathematical thinking in math instruction — is central to history instruction and that students should become more competent as historical thinkers as they progress through their schooling." The Historical Thinking Project
This course has been created for the alignment of the Common Core Standards in the Alberta Program of Studies (The History of Confederation in Canada) with the Historical Thinking Project's framework for the ongoing development of historical-thinking skills. That alignment is an excellent fit for badge-based education, and should be open to all students who may be interested in the history of Canada.
Students who complete this course will have created work which shows evidence of the seven areas of historical thinking as outlined by http://historicalthinking.ca/ as being;
- Establishing Historical Significance
- Using Primary Source Evidence
- Identifying Continuity and Change
- Analyzing Cause and Consequence
- Taking Historical Perspectives
- Understanding Ethical Dimensions of History