History is a discipline, not a content. Our curriculum aims to empower students through the development of historical thinking skills. 

Our curriculum is historian approved! Thinking Nation asks expert historians to review our curriculum before it is used in the classroom. We believe that students should engage with history in a way that mirrors the conversations happening at the scholarly level. Also, by including expert historians in the curriculum-writing process, we can build a better bridge between secondary classrooms and the university.

Our platform houses hundreds of supplemental resources for upper elementary, middle, and high school teachers. Through their own portals, students can track their progress over multiple school years. On the homepage for teacher's portal, teachers can see real-time updates in student completion and grading status.

We want to support teachers the best we can as they empower their students to think historically. Our resources include our proprietary THINKS source analysis protocol, formative assessments, Socratic seminars, and curated-research papers (CRPs). Our CRPs are scaffolded more than traditional DBQs in order for teachers to meet all students where they are. Teachers can use these to teach a unit or as a summative assessment at the end of a unit.

Our rubrics are standards-aligned in order to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration between social studies and English departments. We hope these samples help your students dig deeper into the topics they are studying.

“I really admire the effort and thought that's been invested in this: it's important, timely and original.” - James Walvin, Professor Emeritus in History, University of York

“As a History Teacher, one can really appreciate tasks that provoke thought and critical thinking; the Thinking Nation CRP does exactly that...The task was straightforward and the teacher version was helpful as well!" - Abraham Martinez, 8th Grade Teacher, Bright Star Schools

“In a world full of distorted historical interpretations, Thinking Nation became a light for my students to navigate the fog of misrepresentations. Thinking Nation helped my students become informed decision-makers by teaching them how to process a diversity of information and then using that information to generate college-ready essays.” - Jessica Guerrero, 10th Grade Teacher, IDEA Public Schools