History Assessments of Thinking

History Assessments of Thinking (HATs) ask students to go beyond factual recall to apply information in a specific historical context. Historical thinking is about cultivating habits of mind, ways of thinking that become habitual. These assessments were created by the Stanford History Education Group in partnership with the Library of Congress. Assessments are designed as formative assessments of a student's acquisition of the Historical Thinking Skills embedded in the Reading Like a Historian program.  Teachers are encouraged to visit http://beyondthebubble.stanford.edu/ for additional information. 

 

Teachers can select assessments by History/Social Science Content Standard, Common Core Standard, or Historical Thinking Skill.  A full alignment can be downloaded here: 

 

 

 

Historical Assessments of Thinking by Grade Level

 

Grade 6

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Grade 7 Content Standard	History Assessment of Thinking
7.6	Plague Doctor Seville Quran
7.7	Inca Fortification
7.11	Tupac Amaru II

 

 

 

Grade 8 Content Standard	History Assessment of Thinking
8.1	Declaration of Independence
8.2	Signing of the Mayflower Compact
8.5	The War of 1812
8.6	Clay's American System Women's Rights
8.7	A Perspective on Slavery Antebellum South  Slave Quarters
8.8	Traders in the West
8.9	A Perspective on Slavery African American Workers John Brown John Brown's Legacy Slave Quarters
8.10	Attack on Fort Sumter Gardner's Civil War Photography Morale After Fredericksburg Picket's Charge
8.11	Lynching Controversy Post Civil War South President Grant and Horace Greeley The KKK in the 1870s Reconstruction Riots
8.12	Anarchism and the Haymarket Affair Case of the Clock Creating Columbus Day Immigration The Conservation Movement   Rockefeller Standard Oil Company Labor History Edison and the Kansas Housewife

 

 

Grade 10 Content Standard	History Assessment of Thinking
10.2	Declaration of Independence Haitian Constitution   Louis XVI Napoleon's Retreat Tennis Court Oath
10.4	Zulu Chiefs Italian Atrocities
10.6	Debate over the League of Nations
10.8	Appeasement at Munich
10.9	Cold War Foreign Policy China's Cultural Revolution
10.10	Apartheid in South Africa

 

 

Grade 11 Content Standard	HistoryAssessment of Thinking
11.1	Declaration of Independence   Post Civil War South Reconstruction Riots President Grant and Horace Greeley The KKK in the 1870s
11.2	1877 Railroad Strike   Anarchism and the Haymarket Affair Creating Columbus Day Immigration Photographs of Working Children Riis Urban Photography Rockefeller Standard Oil Company
11.4	American Imperialism Explosion of the USS Maine Opposition to the Philippine-American War Connections to the Philippine-American War  Debate Over the League of Nations World War I Advertising
11.5	Civil Rights Movement in Context Lynching Controversy Edison and the Kansas Housewife
11.6	Breadlines in the 1930s Labor History Lange's Iconic Photograph Labor Movement in the 1930s Unions in Paterson New Jersey Migrant Mother
11.7	Evacuating Japanese Americans Japanese Internment
11.9	Cold War Foreign Policy
11.10	The Role of Women
11.11	The Conservation Movement