Modern schooling requires the presence of creative teaching within the teaching process, therefore the role of schools as educational institutions is to offer students teaching models which will prepare them not only for further education, but also for life. In such a modern school, the role of students is no longer as static as it used to be, students lose their role as passive observers of the teaching process and become active participants in it. Accordingly, the teacher's role is inevitably changing in this process. The teacher is no longer the only available source of knowledge, and reproduction of information is not enough. Through mutual cooperation, students and teachers become active participants in the creative process. As in many fields of science, progress often comes by looking back in the past. Thus, the aim of this work is to investigate the techniques and methods that can offer students creative teaching models using the historical content of the teaching subject Nature and Society in primary education. The goal is to minutely examine how to stimulate students' interest in historical content and to ultimately stimulate students' interest in Croatian history and encourage teachers to use creative techniques within teaching content, which are almost never difficult for students to understand or monotonous. Two fourth grades from the same Zagreb primary school participated in the research. In the first fourth grade, three Nature and Society classes with a historical theme were held the classic way. In the other fourth grade, three lessons of the same teaching unit were held using creative models of teaching historical content, such as roleplaying or brainstorming. Students' motivation, interest and knowledge were being monitored throughout both lessons. Using questionnaires and knowledge tests, the results of the research showed that the choice of teaching methods depends to a certain extent on the interest and motivation of the students towards the historical content within the subject of Nature and Society.