Publications and Research

 

Publications

Teaching for Historical Literacy: Building Knowledge in the History Classroom

Matthew T. Downey & Kelly Long (New York: Routledge, 2016).

Discover Colorado: Its People, Places, and Times

Matthew T. Downey & Jenny Pettit (2nd Edition; Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2015). [Fourth-grade textbook.]

Descubre Colorado: Sus Habitantes, SusRregiones, y Sus Cambios con el Paso del Tiempo

Matthew T. Downey &
Ty Bliss (Boulder: Pruett Press, 2008).descubre colorado

[The following Wright Group books below were targeted at struggling high-school-age readers and adult diploma completers.]

American History, 1: Before 1865

Matthew T. Downey (Chicago: Wright
Group/McGraw-Hill, 2006).

American History, 2: After 1865

Matthew T. Downey (Chicago: Wright
Group/McGraw-Hill, 2006).

World History

Matthew T. Downey(Chicago: Wright
Group/McGraw-Hill, 2006).

American Civics and Government

Matthew T. Downey (Chicago: Wright Group/McGraw-Hill, 2007).

Economics

Matthew T. Downey (Chicago: Wright Group/McGraw-Hill, 2007).

Research Papers

Doing History in a Fifth-Grade Classroom: Perspective Taking and Historical Thinking.

Matthew T. Downey Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April 22, 1995.

Historical Thinking and Perspective Taking in a Fifth Grade Classroom.

Matthew T. Downey Paper presented at the Conference of University and Faculty Assembly, NCSS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Nov. 18, 1994. [Different school and socio-economic classroom.]

After the Dinosaurs: Children’s Chronological Thinking.

Matthew T. Downey Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April 7, 1994.

Historical Learning and the Writing Process: The Writing to Learn History Project.

Matthew T. Downey Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Atlanta, April 13, 1993.

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