Contextualization
Featured Materials
Contextualization – Introduction
Contextualization – Mansa Musa
Students will use their contextualization skills to consider the factors that made industrialization possible.
Contextualization – Opium Wars
In this activity, students will continue to work on their contextualization skills by analyzing the conditions that led to the Opium Wars.
Contextualization – Child Labor
Why did ideas about childhood and child labor change in the nineteenth century. Find out by using your contextualization skills in this activity.
Contextualization – Belief Systems
Why did long-established belief systems begin to shift in this era? You’ll figure out the answer to this question by using your contextualization skills.
Contextualization – Agrarian Societies
How and why did humans switch from foraging to farming? This activity analyzes the factors that allowed the rise of agrarian societies.
Teaching This Skill
Contextualization One-Pager
A historical thinking skill that locates events in time and space.
Historical Thinking Skills Guide
Develop the skills needed to analyze and think like a historian.
Contextualization Activities Placement
Locate these activity progressions in all of our courses.
Contextualization Tool
A thinking tool that helps students develop their understanding of contextualization.
Contextualization Feedback Form
Provide specific and detailed feedback to build contextualization skills.