Bringing History to Life
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Activity Five - Debunking |
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Students may enjoy the process of challenging the statements and judgments they encounter when studying history. A teacher can show them a particularly dubious bit of writing and ask them to gather evidence that might debunk the statements.
Students could use the primary source materials in Project Gutenberg to assess some of the statements above, or they could also do a Google search to get some ideas from commentators and historians ideas they should then test for evidence. Debunking works well with articles from Wikipedia, as students can look at the article describing their home town and check the article for accuracy, correcting mistakes of fact they may discover. Today let's look at the article on Matthew Flinders. Do you notice any errors, any missing stories or any distortions?
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