Blog 17: Answer 3

• What is the best way a History Teacher can effectively teach his class?
• My third answer is, "Using well written sources is one way a History Teacher can effectively teach their class."
• - First Hand Sources are especially beneficial to teaching a History class as they give you a special insight on historical events and what those witnessing it thought about it.
• - Second Hand Sources are the flesh of materiel used in History Classes. As it may prove difficult to acquire first hand sources. Second hand sources are especially important to a history class as they the most commonly used form of sources in gathering historical information.
• - Sources are important in History classes because without them you have no source material to teach to your students history with. If all the events in the past were never written down, the past very well might have been lost and just a mystery to everyone.
• Walt, L. W. "Seven Rules for Effective History Teaching or Bringing Life to the History Class." OAH Magazine of History 17.1 (2002): 65-71. Web.
• Without reliable sources the links to the past of history in classrooms would be lost.