Lethe Tools

Welcome to LETHE Tools

Whether you want your teaching experience to be more guided or more open and flexible, you can find a wide range of guides and materials in this section. These include various resources to guide and support students' interactions with the historical cases collected in the LETHE Map as well as brief notions about the project framework that will help you contextualize your teaching action. Hover over each of the categories to find out what content is offered to you.

All designed material is categorized and uploaded as individual files that can be downloaded and used in your classes. Although the materials are in English, you can find a version of the document in other languages ​​in the LETHE Toolkit category. Download the Toolkit and find the specific file you need in the language that best suits you!
You will find materials that enable teachers and students to engage with the historical cases designed.
Main cover of the document: Introductory lesson (presentation)

Introductory lesson (presentation)

Teacher Material: Introductory presentation on interacting with the cases and stories on the LETHE map and framing the initial discussion with students about what hidden stories are.

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Cover illustrating the content of the document: Template for exploring cases and stories.

Template for exploring cases and stories

Template that guides students through the process of analyzing interactions. Students can reflect in writing on the decisions and agreements made at each stage of the research.

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Cover illustrating the content of the document: Guide to analysing object sources

Guide to analysing object sources

Guide that includes the steps and possible questions that students can ask when analysing an object source. Students can reflect in writing their observations, inferences and conclusions.

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Cover illustrating the content of the document: Guide to analysing documentary sources

Guide to analysing documentary sources

Guide that includes the steps and possible questions that students can ask when analyzing a documentary or textual source.

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Cover illustrating the content of the document: Guide to analysing photographs

Guide to analysing photographs

Guide that includes the steps and possible questions that students can ask when analysing a photograph.

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Cover illustrating the content of the document: Guide to conducting an interview

Guide to conducting interviews

Guide that includes the steps and possible questions that students can ask when conducting interviews (oral sources)

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Cover illustrating the content of the document: Guide to drawing conclusions

Guide to drawing conclusions

Document that collects the steps for the student to gather the information analyzed from each source and transform it into inferences that allow him to construct the final answer to the question that triggers the investigation.

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Cover illustrating the content of the document: Source analysis: the Venn diagram

Source Analysis: The Venn Diagram

Venn diagram template to facilitate contrasting information between two sources.

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Cover illustrating the content of the document: Template for inferences and conclusions

Template for inferences and conclusions

Template that allows students to write down partial and final inferences from the inquiry process carried out.

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Cover illustrating the content of the document: Template to create your own case or story.

Template to create your own case or story

Template that guides the process of creating a historical case developed under the structure and approach proposed by LETHE (object-based historical inquiry).

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LETHE in the classroom

Many teachers have already decided to develop the project in their classrooms and have wanted to share their experience with us. Whether by following the proposed interaction, adapting the materials to the particularities of the classroom or generating new historical cases linked to their educational community, they have all provided interesting feedback to improve and consolidate the project. Are you up for it?

Contact the LETHE team and share your proposal.

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We want to share with you other inspiring experiences that can serve as a model for the development of more interactive, creative and inclusive classes. These are international projects that seek to open classrooms to reflection and make them more inclusive spaces.