Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 19, 2025

Most academic subjects are taught at least in part with some kind of text, whether it be books, articles, or digital resources, and each field has its own unique vocabulary, syntax, and ways of constructing and interpreting meaning.

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Pedagogy Digital Resources Lesson Plan Library 265

Moler's Musing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Wednesday: Students tackled the Articles of Confederation with a Frayer Model, Justin Unruh’s template for Cause and Effect with Shays’ Rebellion, and a Sketch and Tell Comic. Thursday: Used Curipod to clarify the Articles and Shays’ Rebellion, helping students refine their Frayers and comics.

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Government Lesson Plan Critical Thinking History 131

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 5, 2013

The article focused on NJ''s relentless push to increase standardized testing and institute end of course exams that students would have to pass in order to graduate. Please take a look at the entire NJ Spotlight article for more insightful information about the road ahead. So when and how did all of this school failure rhetoric begin?

Critical Thinking 337

Critical Thinking Economics High School History 337

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 15, 2013

Students that participate in this experience travel to Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic as they learn firsthand about one of the most traumatic events in human history. Mr. Stipel took the group to the former Lostice synagogue and gave them the history of the Jews in Lostice. Lostice is a town of about 3,000 people.

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Heritage Artifacts High School History 325

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Constitution, Article II, section 1, specifies that each state will appoint its electors “in such Manner as the Legislature” of the state “may direct.” (In Article II, section 1 of the U.S. The post How the Electoral College Works—And Why It Exists appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Archiving Government American History History 98

Sapiens

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ This picture from 1978 shows the relative size of 4-year-old Grace Latimer next to a replica of Lucy on display at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Ohio. Dated to 3.2

Museum 124

Museum Humanities History Research 124

TeachThought

AUGUST 20, 2024

Question Formal or informal inquiries to understand Example: During a history lesson, the teacher encourages students to ask questions about the motivations of historical figures, prompting deeper understanding and critical discussions about historical events. 12(2), Article 16.

Critical Thinking 351

Critical Thinking K-12 History Research 351

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Roti Collective, a community-based research project, explores the layered histories that brought a flatbread from the Indian subcontinent around the world. In Calcutta on Your Plate , her book on Bengali cuisine and gastronomic history, she points out the absence of roti in Bengali meals until the mid-20th century. where I teach.

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Cultures Archiving History Tradition 130

Zinn Education Project

MAY 25, 2024

Memorial Day Massacre Check out the documentary and companion oral history collection, Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried about the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, when police in Chicago shot at and gassed a peaceful gathering of striking steelworkers and their supporters, killing 10 people, most of them shot in the back. “The

History 111

History Oral History Education 111

ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

With his monotone voice and lack of enthusiasm, he could convince anyone that history is incredibly boring. As a high school history teacher, whenever I meet new adults and we talk about our professions, I often find myself being met with a familiar reaction: "I disliked the subject in school, but now I find it interesting."

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History Primary Sources Artifacts Social Studies 137

Active History Teacher

JULY 18, 2024

After doing a general walk through of the articles (hitting the high points) – I like to sort the differences between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. If you are new to Active History Teacher, then let me tell you. appeared first on Active History Teacher. It's time to review!

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Primary Sources History Teaching 195

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics.

Teaching 135

Teaching Charter School Social Studies Geography 135

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Twins have been rare in human history and for that reason can seem special. To study mammal evolution and reproductive life history, we use skeletal collections, both fossil and recently living. are born prematurely.

Humanities 95

Humanities History Research Cultures 95

Zinn Education Project

AUGUST 1, 2024

But the right to teach about that labor history is jeopardized by the growing number of “anti-CRT” bills. The Zinn Education Project continues to offer free lessons on labor history and to campaign for teachers’ right to teach. Article and Lesson This Day in People’s History Below are a few key events in labor history.

History 98

History Social Justice K-12 Teaching 98

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 15, 2011

As the summer break quickly approaches in the Northeast I have come across various articles focusing on summer learning loss and the negative impact that time off has on students. In 2010 Time Magazine published an article that clearly articulated The Case Against Summer Vacation.

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High School Tradition History Research 258

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By revealing how ancient Mesopotamians tied feelings to specific organs, it contributes to the broader conversation about the universality and variability of emotional experiences in human history. iScience, 29 (1), Article 111365. Bennett, E., Nummenmaa, L., & Steinert, U.

Archiving 98

Archiving Archaeology Humanities Cultures 98

Moler's Musing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

From Frayer Models to define key terms and concepts, to Sketch and Tell-O and 8Parts Sourcing for visual analysis and critical thinking, each day offered a structured and interactive way for students to connect with history.

Primary Sources 111

Primary Sources Government Critical Thinking History 111

Living Geography

JUNE 14, 2024

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History blog, which has over 300 posts. A new article in 'Teaching Times' by Mary Colwell gives a bit of an update into the state of the GCSE Natural History, and its possible introduction in 2026. Textbooks will need to be written and teacher training and resource provisions put in place.

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History Teaching Government 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

This published article alone perpetuates harmful rhetoric that leads to the further exclusion and mistreatment of children with disabilities despite their legally mandated right to inclusion in the general education setting. This article is the first time Ive seen this complexity well represented. Inclusion is not my priority.

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Research Education Psychology Human Rights 120

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A recent study led by researchers from London’s Natural History Museum and the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy reignites the debate over whether Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ( Homo neanderthalensis ) should be classified as separate species. Neanderthals and Homo sapiens are both humans, but they differ in many ways.

Ancestry 111

Ancestry Anthropology Humanities Museum 111

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Study of Ancient Alaskan Canids To explore this complex history, a team of archaeologists led by François Lanoë from the University of Arizona analyzed 111 sets of bones from canids unearthed at archaeological sites across interior Alaska. However, most of these early attempts did not endure into modern dog lineages.

Humanities 98

Humanities Archaeology Anthropology History 98

Moler's Musing

JANUARY 24, 2025

This week in 8th-grade social studies, we brought history to life with engaging EduProtocols that helped students dive deep into the Early Republic and key moments like the Whiskey Rebellion. The establishment of key government structures. The significance of neutrality and Jays Treaty. hero, mentor, trickster).

Government 131

Government Social Studies Leadership History 131

Moler's Musing

MARCH 1, 2025

The combination of these strategies helped students interact with history in meaningful ways while reinforcing critical thinking and writingexactly the kind of skills they need as we approach testing season. What does this headline tell us about how history is remembered? Who was upset by this, and why?

History 121

History Critical Thinking Government Research 121

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

A recent article by Beth Holland for Edutopia reinforced many of my thoughts as of late on this topic. To accomplish their goals, these teachers began with an informational text on the history of the Roman Forum to ground their use of social media in historical discourse and academic content.

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Pedagogy Library History High School 429

Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The collection of articles, written by a diverse group of African and international scholars, urges us to rethink the legacy of this discovery. A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History. History of physical anthropology in Southern Africa. Harvard University Press. Shipman, P. Harvard University Press.

Heritage 84

Heritage Anthropology Museum Humanities 84

Strange Maps

JANUARY 22, 2025

According to the researchers, this is historys first large-scale pollution event from industrial activities, and it happened a millennium and a half before the Industrial Revolution. While that may not seem much, such an average over a wide area and for a sustained period equates to widespread cognitive decline, notes the article in PNAS.

History 74

History Research Archaeology 74

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Deciphering the Plaques: A History of Theories Since the 1800s, scholars have speculated about the meaning of these artifacts, numbering around 1,626 recovered to date. Related Studies These articles expand on themes of material culture, identity, and the anthropological interpretations of Iberian engraved plaques.

Archaeology 98

Archaeology Artifacts Ancestry Anthropology 98

Strange Maps

MARCH 3, 2025

Opposite moral universes At issue is a set of heatmaps from a scientific article exploring the moral circles of liberals and conservatives. This graphic is rapidly becoming the most misused and misunderstood image in all of modern history, hyperbolized podcast host Liv Boeree. Credit : A. Strange Maps #1270 Got a strange map?

Social Science 97

Social Science Research History Humanities 97

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

I’ve experienced the phenomenon of reading a text, but when I get to the end of a page or the bottom of the article, I have no idea what the text was about. Perhaps teachers grab texts or articles at different Lexile levels to differentiate or pull students who need additional support reading into a small group.

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Tradition History Teaching Education 218

Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

These make me wonder at the many silently maintained museums of absence that form an unofficial archive of conflict, telling stories that official histories often overlook. And, with every news article of violent conflict today, I lament how many wardrobes will be used to care for the missingthat is, if any bedrooms remain.

Archiving 122

Archiving Anthropology Museum Cultures 122

Life and Landscapes

MARCH 17, 2025

He had also published several articles in The Filson History Quarterly and in the Marine Corps Gazette. In 2007, at the age of 90, he commenced writing a series of columns for the Shelbyville, Kentucky Sentinel-News entitled History Researched and Recalled. Van Stockum is the author and publisher of six historical books.

History 59

History American History Research 59

Political Science Now

MAY 13, 2024

This piece, written by Komal Preet Kaur , covers the new article by Nicholas Haas and Emmy Lindstam, My History or Our History? How does history shape a sense of belonging to a national identity? My History or Our History? The post Rewriting History, Redefining Belonging appeared first on.

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History Political Science Leadership Research 61

Living Geography

DECEMBER 8, 2024

The BBC Future article looks at the archaeology being revealed by melting glaciers. However, as global warming and record hot summers have sped up glacier loss, the melting ice has exposed an unprecedented, huge range of archaeological finds, Reitmaier says sometimes baring thousands of years of history, all at once.

Archaeology 52

Archaeology History 52

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 26, 2015

Teachers can easily differentiate instruction assigning articles written at a range Lexile levels to different groups of students within a single class. Strong readers might be able to read an article that measures 1130L, while other students in the same class may need to read the same article written at a 1000 Lexile level.

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Social Science History Teaching Education 149

Sapiens

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ New archaeological research reveals insights into the first-known seafarers to brave ocean crossings from Asia to the Pacific Islands more than 50,000 years ago.

Humanities 120

Humanities Archaeology Artifacts Heritage 120

Anthropology News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Based on three periods of fieldwork with the Kujamaat Diola, he wrote elegant journal articles analyzing the symbolism of social relationships and rituals that he called “structuralist showpieces.” His early anthropological career was influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss.

Anthropology 105

Anthropology Cultures History Public School 105

Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 13, 2024

In appreciation for your feedback , we’ll send you a people’s history book. Lesson Whose History Matters? history classes, I would ask students about “that guy some people say discovered America.” The film explores the history of what transpired in 1492 and after, and how “Columbus” has been used throughout U.S.

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History Social Studies Humanities Cultures 143