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Linking Content and Strategies

Strategies for activating student knowledge and breaking the ice with new topics can be applied to all curriculum units and disciplines. It is also one of many strategies for introducing students to the Progressive Era.

Journal: Apply This Strategy to Other Content Areas

Think about the applicability of this strategy (breaking the ice and activating student knowledge) with some other topic in the history classroom. In your journal, describe an activity using this strategy that you might incorporate with a different history topic.

Journal: Apply Other Strategies to This Content Area

Think about other strategies that you could use to help students "break into" the Progressive Era and activate their current knowledge. Consider the relative strengths and weaknesses of each approach in shaping an understanding of the relevant history. Describe the strategies in your journal.

To see a list of teaching strategies that could be applied to this and other topics in history, see Strategies.

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