Studies Weekly

JANUARY 30, 2024

Reading groups, library and computer time, literature, science, math, geography, art, and even holidays can all help our students learn about human society. Her perspective on Social Studies taught me that it is not an isolated area of study but exists in everything we teach.

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Geography Teacher Sharing

MARCH 13, 2023

Decided to carry out an inquiry-based learning on Geographical Methods under the topic Geography in Everyday Life in the new Upper Sec Geography syllabus. A teachable moment as I went through with the them the validity of data can be compromised by human error. Another's class analysis on the bite sized fieldwork 22 Mar 2023.

Geography 52

Geography Humanities Research 52

Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

The visual geography of paper has memory-linking effects that help students connect what they have read with where they saw it on a page or how far into a book it was. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2773–2777. Our brains give more weight to words on a printed page. 2021, December 21).

Artifacts 52

Artifacts Primary Sources K-12 Psychology 52

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When a position teaching geography to ninth graders at a private high school opened, she took it. She found interesting geography lessons online. The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History. This was December.

Teaching 52

Teaching Geography Ancestry Primary Sources 52

Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. Peters agreed. Civic engagement involves more than just showing up to vote.

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Civics Civic Engagement American History Government 52

Strange Maps

JANUARY 31, 2024

Zooming out from individual casualties to the overall death toll, the dead of Everest start to form a morbid geography of sorts, which does more than simply horrify. Credit: pointofnoreturn.org) This first map shows the geography of the mountain, with a flag planted for each place where one or more climbers died.

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Geography Humanities History 121

Living Geography

JANUARY 22, 2025

World Weather Attribution & @ClimateCentral show these were intensified by human-induced climate change. of human-induced warming, and highlights the urgency of moving away from planet-heating fossil fuels as quickly as possible. 2024 was the year when the weather continued to break. and break records.

Humanities 52

Humanities Economics Research 52

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

This included 4,000 hardback copies in 2022 and 2023 — and 10,000 copies of the 2024 paperback edition. He writes, “Nearly everything about the war — the start and end dates, geography, vital military roles, the home front, and international implications — looks different when viewed from the African American perspective.”

History Education 52

History Education History Education Social Studies 52

Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While an individual or group may think that they are an island, the geography teacher in me can see that their island, like everyone else’s, is in the middle of concentric circles of scale. They are fundamentally values of human rights that are shared amongst vast numbers of the world’s population.

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Human Rights Geography Controversial Topics Humanities 40

Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

published in The American Journal of Human Genetics 1 , has provided fresh insights into the complex origins of the Fulani, tracing their ancestry back to an ancient, lost world—the Green Sahara. They are a living testament to the vast, interconnected human journey that has played out on African soil for tens of thousands of years.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 10, 2024

To understand Operation Christmas Drop, it helps to have some history and geography. What is more, weapons testing in the regionwhich is ongoing has introduced toxic, and radioactive , materials into local ecosystems, increasing rates of cancer and birth defects in humans and other living organisms. taxpayers feel good.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy.

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Social Studies Civics K-12 Geography 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Virtually all school districts buy web filters from companies that sort the internet into categories. Do we really want that to be the case? Is that fair?”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz, the governor of Minnesota, worked for roughly two decades in public schools, as a geography teacher and football coach. He has championed investments in public education: For example, in March 2023, he signed a bill to make school meals free to all students in public schools. Harris, a former U.S.

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