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 "id": "teach-history-with-traceable-source-adaptations",
 "type": "workflow",
 "name": "Teach history with sources learners can question",
 "summary": "Attach primary texts and a learning goal. Get transparent adaptations, a document lesson and a thinking assessment.",
 "headline": "Teach history with sources learners can question",
 "subhead": "Attach primary texts and a learning goal. Get transparent adaptations, a document lesson and a thinking assessment.",
 "job": {
  "id": "teach-and-train",
  "name": "Teach and train people"
 },
 "level": "advanced",
 "thinking": "high",
 "tested": true,
 "updated": "2026-11-03",
 "first_published": "2026-10-25",
 "inputs": [
  {
   "type": "source_text",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Source text",
   "what": "a long source in full: an article, a video or talk transcript, or notes from a book, with its title, author and link"
  },
  {
   "type": "lesson_plan",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Lesson plan",
   "what": "a lesson, class task or activity for a stated age group and subject: the aims, the steps and what students do. Can be a full plan or a short note of what you want to teach"
  }
 ],
 "outputs": [
  {
   "type": "document",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Document",
   "what": "a finished document, such as a Word file, a PDF or a page of notes"
  },
  {
   "type": "plan",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Plan",
   "what": "a dated plan: what to do, in what order, with a decision rule for each step"
  },
  {
   "type": "lesson_plan",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Lesson plan",
   "what": "a lesson, class task or activity for a stated age group and subject: the aims, the steps and what students do. Can be a full plan or a short note of what you want to teach"
  }
 ],
 "you_give": [
  "SOURCES: attach primary texts with original wording, author, date, context and permissions.",
  "INQUIRY: give the central question as one sentence, and the tensions learners should investigate.",
  "LEARNERS: give age, reading level, prior knowledge, access needs and lesson length in minutes.",
  "ASSESSMENT_GOAL: name sourcing, close reading, context or corroboration as target."
 ],
 "you_get": [
  "Original/adapted source pairs and change log",
  "Timed inquiry lesson, diagnostic tasks and scoring guide"
 ],
 "use_when": [
  "Teaching source-based history where text complexity blocks inquiry"
 ],
 "skip_when": [
  "You teach a subject other than history, or want a lesson from an explanation to practice and a quiz: use Lesson and recall quiz planner.",
  "You have a finished lesson and want it checked first: use Lesson readiness reviewer.",
  "A learner needs access changes, not simpler text: use Lesson access and activity planner.",
  "You want recall questions on facts, not source-based thinking: use the Recall quiz writer."
 ],
 "output_sample": {
  "input": [
   "Your primary texts, with the original wording, author, date and context",
   "The central question learners should investigate",
   "Your learners' age, reading level, prior knowledge, access needs and lesson length",
   "The thinking skill to assess, such as sourcing, close reading, context or corroboration",
   "A fresh source for the final check (optional)"
  ],
  "prerequisites": [
   "Permission to use and adapt each source",
   "A teacher to review sensitive content for your group"
  ],
  "output": [
   {
    "name": "Source pairs",
    "contains": "Each original beside its adapted version, with author and date kept."
   },
   {
    "name": "Change log",
    "contains": "Every cut and change marked, with the author's perspective and any tensions between sources kept."
   },
   {
    "name": "Word bank",
    "contains": "Definitions only, with no hints about what the source means."
   },
   {
    "name": "Timed inquiry lesson",
    "contains": "Background, investigation, discussion and evidence-based writing, with teacher and student actions."
   },
   {
    "name": "Diagnostic tasks and scoring guide",
    "contains": "Source-based tasks tied to your chosen skill, with expected answers that cite evidence and allow other defensible readings."
   },
   {
    "name": "Check table",
    "contains": "PASS, FAIL or NOT RUN for each check, with missing inputs and the next person or input needed."
   }
  ]
 },
 "how_to_use": [
  "Download the complete workflow or agent pack and unzip it.",
  "Give the complete folder to your AI. Start with START_HERE.txt, then provide the named inputs in the coordinator skill.",
  "Follow its checkpoints and check the evidence before using any output. Agent packs run one requested cycle; they do not create a schedule."
 ],
 "checks": [
  "Attribution and meaningful adaptations are visible.",
  "Author perspective and tensions remain available for inquiry.",
  "Tasks assess the named historical thinking skill.",
  "Practice, transfer and measured learning are distinguished."
 ],
 "steps": [
  {
   "position": 1,
   "id": "history-source-simplifier",
   "name": "History source text simplifier",
   "summary": "Share a historical text, full source details and student needs. Get an easier reading version, a change record and definitions for difficult words kept.",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/history-source-simplifier"
  },
  {
   "position": 2,
   "id": "primary-source-lesson",
   "name": "Primary source history lesson planner",
   "summary": "Give it a topic and sources. Get a full lesson where learners investigate a historical question from documents.",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/primary-source-lesson"
  },
  {
   "position": 3,
   "id": "history-thinking-quiz-designer",
   "name": "History thinking task and quiz designer",
   "summary": "Name the history skills and student level. Get short source-based tasks, scoring guides and notes on what the answers can and cannot show.",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/history-thinking-quiz-designer"
  }
 ],
 "next": [
  {
   "name": "Assessment fit and fairness checker",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/assessment-fairness-check",
   "why": "Assessment fit and fairness checker"
  },
  {
   "name": "Overloaded lesson checker",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/overloaded-lesson-checker",
   "why": "Overloaded lesson checker"
  },
  {
   "name": "History lesson source set planner",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/history-source-set-picker",
   "why": "History lesson source set planner"
  }
 ],
 "source": null,
 "credits": [],
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  "references/practice-case.md"
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