Tennessee State Museum Summer Workshop Series 2023 - Huntsville, TN

About this event

This summer we will be working with teachers across the state to highlight the ways you can help your students think like a historian in class. Historical thinking uses skills from several subject areas such as forming a hypothesis, primary source research, reading critically, and analyzing a narrative. When these skills are focused on historical topics, students can gain a deeper understanding of the past and an appreciation for history as a living, changing thing.

Over six hours, we will work with teachers to apply these skills to the Cherokee removal period in Tennessee. By exploring primary and secondary sources and using activities that you can take back to your class for use with your students, we will attempt to answer three major questions:

• What did the Indian Removal Act and the Treaty of New Echota do?

• What was the reaction to these two documents?

• Why did…