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Through a variety of question types featuring primary source documents, images, maps and videos, answer-specific feedback, and game-like elements such as the ability to wager points, students are motivated to keep working until they’ve mastered the concepts. Students can access their ebook from InQuizitive if they need help.
The History Skills Tutorials are interactive, online modules that support student development of the key skills for the world history course. With interactive practice assessments, helpful guiding feedback, and videos with author John McNeill, these tutorials teach students the critical analysis skills that they will put to use in their academic and professional careers. The tutorials for The Webs of Humankind focus on:
To support the continued growth of students’ historical skills, The Webs of Humankind offers a series of brief, assignable Primary Source Exercises and Map Exercises to accompany every chapter of the book. Drawing directly from the key documents, visuals, and historical evidence in the textbook, these interactive exercises re-engage students with important content that they may have skipped in the reading and provide the opportunity for critical analysis practice every week of the semester.
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History Skills Tutorials provide guidance for students and model how to analyze primary source documents, images, maps, and other types of historical evidence, including archaeological discoveries, genetics, and more.
Most instructors assign the tutorials as primers that prepare students to analyze primary sources and maps throughout the course. They can also be assigned as a scaffolding assignment prior to the Primary Source and Map Exercises (see the After Class section).
Instructors tell us that assigning the tutorials for 5-10% of a homework or participation grade ensures that all students complete the activities.
Read the Norton Illumine Ebook, which breaks the chapters into smaller, more digestible chunks of information with low-stakes concept check questions (called “Check Your Understanding”) at the end of each section to ensure students understand what they’ve read in one section before they move on to the next section. Students receive answer-specific feedback as they work through each section’s questions.
Designed by a cognitive psychologist, InQuizitive adaptive learning activities promote a growth mindset and build understanding through retrieval practice and concept application.
Instructors tell us that assigning the Norton Illumine Ebook or InQuizitive for 10–15 percent of the course points ensures students complete the reading and understand important concepts. Integration ensures that grades flow into your LMS gradebook.
The Instructor’s Manual offers helpful and creative resources for planning lectures and classroom activities. The teaching resources in this manual include: chapter summaries, detailed chapter outlines, focus questions, discussion/forum prompts, teaching with the concept of webs of social interaction, lecture ideas/activities, and sample responses to questions in the text.
Primary Source Exercises help students with textual and visual primary source analysis. The exercises for every chapter include low-stakes, interactive questions on three or four primary sources students will come across in the chapter.
Map Exercises for each chapter include approximately ten low stakes, interactive questions on the maps students will come across in the chapter. This deep-dive into each chapter’s maps helps students hone their map literacy skills.
The Online Reader includes several additional primary sources per chapter with introductions, historical context, and discussion prompts.
Instructors tell us that assigning Primary Source and/or Map Exercises for a small percentage (5-10%) of the overall grade or a homework grade ensures students complete them. You can assign these by chapter or choose a select number to assign throughout the term.
Norton Testmaker is our online test generator that allows you to search and filter approximately 1,500 test bank questions by chapter, type, difficulty level, learning objectives, and other criteria. You can also customize test bank questions to fit your course. Easily export your tests to Microsoft Word or Common Cartridge files for your LMS.
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*A within-subject efficacy test designed by Dustin Tingley (Harvard) showed that InQuizitive can help increase history students’ quiz scores by 16 percentage points. Learn more.
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