12 Articles About Critical Thinking
TeachThought
MAY 6, 2025
Critical thinking questions include, Why is this important? What are the causes and effects of this? How do we know if this is true?
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The world’s longest train journey is epic — but nobody’s ever taken it
Strange Maps
MAY 5, 2025
The mountains of northern Laos are beautiful, but tough to negotiate. By car, it can easily take 15 hours to drive the 373 miles (600 km) of winding roads that separate the capital Vientiane from the town of Boten on the Chinese border. Since December 2021, theres a far straighter, much faster alternative: the brand-new high-speed Laos- China Railway (LCR) measures just 257 miles (414 km) between Boten and Vientiane, and fast trains cover that distance in three and a half hours.
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50 (Mostly) Simple Ways To Encourage Creativity In The Classroom
TeachThought
MAY 4, 2025
Here are 30 ideas to promote creativity in learning, including tapping into multiple intelligences and using emotional connections.
Who Were the Sogdians
World History Teachers Blog
MAY 5, 2025
Here is a hyperdoc about the Sogdians who played a critical role in the trade of goods and ideas on the Silk Road. It's based on an excellent online exhibit about the Sogdians from the National Museum of Asian Art. The exhibit has four chapters: the Sogdians at Home: Believers, Proselytizers & Translators; the Sogdians Abroad; and the Rediscovery of the Sogdians.
Student Agency and Academic Growth: A Case Study From Sylvan Hills Middle School
Digital Promise
MAY 7, 2025
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Using Sociology Documentaries to Deepen Student Understanding
Passion for Social Studies
MAY 9, 2025
Sociology gives students a powerful framework to understand the world around them. It opens the door to exploring different societies, their diversity, and the ways they interact. This is why I love teaching sociology! I have found that one of the most effective ways to deepen student understanding is through well-chosen sociology documentaries; textbooks and lectures can only take you so far.
Hundreds of STEM Grants Have Been Terminated. K-12 Math Educators Will Lose Out
ED Surge
MAY 5, 2025
Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. At the Human Computing Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, McLaren develops digital learning games to study how effective they are in the classroom and beyond. One such game is called Decimal Point.
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Flint and Footprints in the Ice
Anthropology.net
MAY 7, 2025
By the time the sun rose over the jagged folds of the Catalan Pyrenees some 20,000 years ago, the snow crust had already hardened under the feet of a small band of Homo sapiens. They carried their belongings with care—scraps of dried meat, slings, and flint cores nestled inside hides tied into makeshift packs. These weren’t just travelers.
Together: Using Inquiry to Teach the Armenian Genocide
C3 Teachers
MAY 5, 2025
with Tara DeVay In late summer 2015, as I prepared for my third-year teaching eighth-grade social studies in rural Western New York, I balanced many of the challenges that young teachers do: coaching, building curriculum, and searching for more meaningful ways to teach content. While my first two years had gone well, something was missing. The routine of covering material felt stagnant.
The Week That Was In 234
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MAY 9, 2025
This week was all about pulling the threadtracing how specific events pulled the country apart and pushed us toward war. I built everything around one central theme: A Nation Divides Over Slavery. From court cases to debates, from compromises to elections, we kept the structure tight: retrieval, repetition, and real thinking. The protocols stayed familiar, the tasks stayed purposeful, and students had a chance to connect the dots, not just memorize them.
Dual Enrollment Numbers Are Rising. Colleges Want Them to Keep Growing.
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Dual enrollment courses are considered some of the best ways to prepare students for the rigor and content in college-level curricula. Not only do these courses offer students a jump-start on credits once they get to college, but they also equip them with skills like time management, critical thinking and study habits that researchers say encourage them to enroll and stay in college.
When a Root Cause Analysis Brought a School Principal to Tears
Digital Promise
MAY 9, 2025
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When the Plow Turned the Tables: How Inequality Took Root in Human History
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MAY 8, 2025
The Ox and the Origins of Unequal Societies Long before hedge funds, private property, or multinational tax havens, human societies were surprisingly equal. Across a wide range of Neolithic communities, archaeological evidence suggests that disparities in wealth—though present—were often kept in check. That balance, however, began to shift dramatically around 5,000 years ago.
South Africa’s Road Out of Colonialism
Sapiens
MAY 6, 2025
A lawyer and anthropologist examines the history of the longest road in South Africa and why a proposed extension may repeat past violence. While researching the history of parole in South Africa, a lawyer and anthropologist discovers the origins of the N2 road, which she drives everyday. Now interested in this highways history, she explores how this and other roads were used to expand territory and exploit people during South Africas colonial periods under Dutch and British rule, and how they k
The Orange Twist: How I Used AI to Make a Textbook Fun
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MAY 6, 2025
Sometimes, teaching history means peeling back the layers. Literally. It was late in the year, and I just wanted to mix things up. We’d been hitting heavy content, and I needed something differentnot easier, just… different. So I asked AI to help. We were covering the Lincoln-Douglas debates a pivotal moment tied to the expansion of slavery and the rise of the Republican Party.
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While both enrollment and spending in early childhood education programs reached new levels in 2024, a few select states did the lions share of the work with many states lagging behind. And with early childhood program funding in flux , some leaders in the sector are concerned the lack of investment both financial and otherwise could create a doomed domino effect for some programming.
Teacher Spotlight: Ginny Boles and why MAHG is important
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This blog was originally posted on May 5, 2022. We rerun it today to spotlight teacher Ginny Boles! Ginny Boles needed to build her content knowledge in American history. Paradoxically, her love of this history had led her to major in classics as an undergraduate at UCLA, so as to read the Latin and Greek texts the Founding Fathers read as they formulated their plans for self-government.
A Tin Thread Through Time
Anthropology.net
MAY 6, 2025
More than 3,000 years ago, long before Rome rose or Athens dreamed of democracy, bronze was already reshaping the ancient world. Weapons, tools, and ornaments forged from this copper-and-tin alloy were transforming everything from warfare to daily labor. But while copper is relatively easy to find, tin is elusive. It doesn’t litter the ancient Mediterranean the way obsidian or copper does.
Social Studies Soundtracks: Using Music to Teach Social Studies
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Teacher Morale Isn’t Just a Metric. It’s the Mood of the System.
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As we celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week this week, I am reflecting on the 2025 State of Teaching Report from EdWeek. This report highlights the importance of focusing on morale as a retention lever. Real moralethe kind that stickslives in the daily experiences of educators--it shows up in leadership decisions, hallway conversations, classroom dynamics, and Monday morning moods.
Serving Up Success: Helping beginning teachers to embrace change and growth
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The Effect of Protesters’ Gender on Public Reactions to Protests and Protest Repression
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The Effect of Protesters Gender on Public Reactions to Protests and Protest Repression By Martin Naunov , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This study examines how protesters gender shapes public reactions to protests and protest repression. Using an original survey experiment, I demonstrate that protests involving extensive participation by women are perceived as less violent and meriting of repression than male-dominated protests.
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Anthropology.net
MAY 6, 2025
In the humid heart of the Yucatán, inside the ceremonial center of Chichén Itzá, a dozen ceramic bowls buried in history have begun to speak again. Through cracks, burn marks, and chemical traces, they offer a new clue to one of Mesoamerica’s most enduring aesthetic and ritual achievements: the production of Maya blue. The pigment, renowned for its vibrancy and permanence, has captivated scientists since its rediscovery in the early 20th century.
WHN Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2024-2025
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The Womens History Network is offering one 250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of womens or gender history (though with a strong focus on women) written during the 2024-2025 academic year. We welcome research on any period and place. We encourage entries from under-represented groups.
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MAY 5, 2025
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