Part 1 of this workshop series will introduce participants to the scholarship and pedagogy surrounding historical consciousness, with a focus on how these practices support student engagement and meaning-making in introductory-level history courses. Attendees will be provided with practical, concrete examples of methods for developing students’ sense of historical positionality through active learning, designed especially for large, general education classrooms. Among other examples, these methods will be illustrated through examples drawn from a recently-developed module for History for the 21^st Century by Eric Nelson (Missouri State University) that engages students in cultivating their own sense of historical consciousness within a “big history” framework. Participants will be provided with an opportunity to practice using the materials, as well as strategize various ways they could implement these, or similar types of materials and activities in their classrooms.