To allow your students, regardless of age group, to learn about history through research can spike their curiosity on the subject. It’s about making the younger students see themselves as detectives attempting to solve a “mystery” by comparing and contrasting different sources and answer their questions. It’s extremely important to teach kids about the difference between sources, context and authors. Learning about history is not just about the stories, it’s about where the stories are coming from and who is telling these stories. Having students question the information they are presented with and learn to pick the more accurate representations sets them up for more as they grow up. They can learn to question politics and politicians, the news, and pretty much anything they see on the internet. The earlier they learn to do their research and find the right sources, the better students and citizens they will be. That is something that older generations are missing, especially with how fast the internet became the main source to find information; they are not informed citizens. They weren’t taught how to research and were given generic social studies classes, now it resulted with a bunch of people being fed information and automatically assume that the source is credible; just because it’s on the internet. As future teachers, we have to break that cycle and teach them to question what they read. All of that needs to start in elementary school social studies classes and give our future generations the tools they need to create a better world.
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