Here is a series of online and printed references dedicated to the use of thinking skills in the teaching of History. A short description accompanies each entry.

• Using thinking skills in History: Gifted and talented students. National Curriculum online History site. "By using thinking skills, pupils who are gifted in history can focus on knowing how as well as knowing what to learn."
• Thinking through History: Publication edited by Peter Fisher. "This book is written for teachers who have ambition. It was certainly written by teachers with an ambition - that pupils should be challenged to think, as they enjoy it and learn from it." On The Line is the Devon Curriculum Services 'Thinking skills' in Geography and Religious Education' project web site.
• Thinking through History: "By using thinking skills", this Kirklees Ednet document says, "pupils can focus on knowing how as well as knowing what - on learning how to learn.
• Developing Children's Thinking Skills in History and Geography: St. Patrick's College Drumcondra page with downloadable examples of cards sorts and mysteries and dilemmas.
• Dan Lyndon's From the Elephant Gun to the Sniper: Improving pupils' writing skills in History Thinking Skills Project for History at Henry Compton School.
• Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in History: By Kathleen W. Craver (ISSN: 1074-150X) Greenwood Press. Westport, Conn. 1999. 280 pages LC 99-17841. ISBN 0-313-30749-0. GR0749 $44.95 (Reference Book).
• Beyer, B. K. (2001) 'Infusing Thinking in History and the Social Sciences', in Cost, A. L. (ed.) Developing Minds: A Resource Book for Teaching Thinking, Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, pp. 317-325. Argues that 'the higher-order thinking that is so embedded in history and the social science disciplines seems to be missing from many of the elementary and secondary school courses derived from these disciplines.'
• Lesley Ann Buxton ran a Thinking Skills seminar in July 2003 on the History Teachers' Discussion Forum at Schoolhistory.co.uk/forum.
• Culpin, B. (1984). Language, Learning and Thinking Skills in History. Teaching History, (39), 24 - 28.
• Nichol, J. (1999) "Who wants to fight? Who wants to flee? Teaching history from a ‘thinking skills perspective" pp. 6-13, Teaching History: Issue 95, May.
• Dean, J. (2002) Thinking Skills in Primary History.
• Rees, A. (1976) "Teaching Strategies for the Advancement and Development of Thinking Skills in History": unpublished M.Phil. dissertation, University of Leeds.
• Wallace, B. and Riches, P. (2003) Using History to Develop Thinking Skills at Key Stage 2, London: David Fulton.

© 2003 D. R. Wilson