TE: Through Their Eyes...

Happy Tuesday Gang,

      When we look at history - and in our case the story of science - through the eyes of real people that lived in the past, it brings us closer to those people.  When we look Through Their Eyes it opens a door to understanding what we have in common.  What did they look like?  How did they spend their days and nights?  Who was in their family and what were they expected to do?  What motivated them to act in the ways they did?  How did they deal with the problems of their day?


      Exploring these questions and finding others can deepen our historical understanding only if we remember that we are observers of the past, not actors in the past.  What we need to do is to "LISTEN" to the voices of the past without preconceptions.  In order to understand why people thought and acted the way they did in the past we need to see the world as they saw it.  We need to see their world THROUGH THEIR EYES.  

      Think about Through Their Eyes in correlation with our historical figures, Alfred Wegener, Antoine Lavoisier, Harry Hess, Eratosthenes, and Dmitri Mendeleev.  As you use the TE rubric today, look through your paper to see if you have included any perspectives from the "old dead guys" we have read, watched, and talked about.

*Adapted from Thinking Like a Historian

From the cluttered mind of C, Teacher
School District of Waukesha
Waukesha STEM Academy