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
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.