Teaching Anthropology

APRIL 13, 2024

Examples of VMPs range from setting up a display in a local museum called “Primates in Motion”, writing a grant proposal for a specific archaeological site, creating a fund raising campaign for an endangered primate species, creating an interactive display on the evolution of a Pliocene hominin (see Fukuzawa & Boyd, 2016; Fukuzawa, 2018).

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

To learn more visit our Holocaust Education Program website and associated student blog. We are hoping to spend a day together at the Wannsee Villa near Berlin which today is a museum that deals with a meeting of high ranking Nazi officials in 1941 when they crafted the Final Solution. Her name was Sarah Lauterbach.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

Many museums offer online resources that you can use instead. For example, the Museum of Chinese in America in Chinatown, Manhattan, NY, hosts a MOCAKIDS Storytime program on Zoom every 2nd and 4th Thursday at 4 p.m. The museum also has some of its collections online for students to browse at mocanyc.org.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Digital Promise and Learning Heroes have teamed up for a special blog series that explores how teachers and families can use technology to work together and facilitate learning for students of all ages. For more tips and resources, sign up for our Action Report and stay tuned for our next blog on promoting life skills.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Digital Promise and Learning Heroes have teamed up for a special blog series that explores how teachers and families can use technology to work together and facilitate learning for students of all ages. Practice critical skills by using tools for organizing, researching, writing, publishing, creating, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

She wrote a blog post about her experience and added a photo of herself with the hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer. Nia Keith, director of professional development for the Museum of Science. People posting on Facebook and Twitter said Anchalee was too attractive to be an actual software engineer and must be a model.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This is a cross-posting from my dedicated blog which covers the events linked to my Vice Presidency of the Royal Geographical Society. The evening is not just to introduce new people to RGS East but also to the wealth of superb indigenous material held in the Gallery – the best collection in the UK outside the big London museums.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

The first and second blogs in this series focused on providing meaningful choices when students are acquiring information and making meaning. In this third and final installment of our “Would You Rather?” series, we will explore how we can provide students with choices that enable them to transfer and apply their learning effectively.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 7, 2020

This cohort is open to educators representing schools, out-of-school-time programs, libraries, museums, and other organizations serving youth. Digital Promise is excited to announce the Maker Learning @ Home Cohort, a professional learning opportunity for educators committed to designing maker learning experiences at home.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Our lab is no museum—it is a makerspace, a design laboratory, a place to combine creativity and inspiration. But our lab is no museum—it is a makerspace, a design laboratory, a place to combine creativity and inspiration.”. Jonathan Lubas Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Coach, E Prep Cliffs.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

Learning sciences research investigates the process of learning in realistic settings, which can include schools, museums, after-school programs, home environments, or anywhere people typically learn. Where to Learn More. We’ve included a number of links to learning sciences resources below.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 19, 2025

The Carriage House at the Howard Steamboat Museum Mansion was available. A Board was formed and, in 1970, Wann decided to leave the high school and take over operations. His vision was the development of a semi-professional troupe of actors mostly composed of local amateurs. A stage was built inside, and the building renovated.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2019

The resulting project was a United States/United Kingdom Cultural Museum in Minecraft. Building our international cultural museums was a powerful learning experience for students because it provided them with a truly unique, interactive way to experience the adage ‘Walk in someone’s footsteps to learn more about them,” Chris says.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We’d examine historical images of Native American life from the Museum of Photographic Arts, other historical photos from the U.K.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 15, 2025

The Carriage House at the Howard Steamboat Museum Mansion was available. A Board was formed and, in 1970, Wann decided to leave the high school and take over operations. His vision was the development of a semi-professional troupe of actors mostly composed of local amateurs. A stage was built inside, and the building renovated.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 23, 2015

We get to go to the City Museum tomorrow evening! Moving Forward – Elementary classroom blogs. The FRC game this year seems to really intense and the FLL kids as always: are super cute and really amazing for being so young and making it into the top 3% of teams around the world. Top edublogs – August 2007.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2021

Events are hosted by a wide range of organizations in each community—from churches to tech companies, rec centers to sewing shops, libraries to schools, makerspaces to barbershops, parks to museums, restaurants to laundromats, and everywhere in between.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 4, 2019

Events are hosted by a variety of organizations, such as schools, museums, libraries, community centers, and more. Remake Learning Days Across America (RLDAA) is a festival of experiential learning events for youth and their families in regions across the country.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

From our work with EdClusters over the past three years, we’ve observed that robust networks have participation from four key pillar sectors: educators (from school districts to science museums), entrepreneurs (from ed-tech startups to established companies), researchers (from consultancies to higher ed), and funders and investors (from philanthropic (..)

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Education Museum Tradition Educational Technology 115

Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 14, 2022

Two projects from Asia include the discovery of a Tang shipwreck, which takes you to an exhibit at the Singapore Museum , and a Story Map follows the early thirteenth-century travels of Yelu Chucai and Wugusun Zhongduan, who travel from north China to Central Asia after the Mongol empire's first conquests under Chinggis Khan.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2019

Remake Learning Days Across America (RLDAA) is an upcoming festival of experiential learning events designed for learners and their families and hosted by a variety of organizations, such as schools, museums, libraries, after school groups, and more. The events will be held in regions across the country this spring. (If

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Rosie the History Teacher

JULY 19, 2021

Right now I am teaching summer school, working as a social media coordinator for a couple of businesses, developing and teaching a course for museum professionals, volunteering at two museums, and managing my teacher resource business. So I’m writing this blog instead. Yes I need a babysitter. There is no summer break.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 7, 2015

To connect each painting to the broader story of the exhibit, the museum curator uses labels to highlight information about each artifact. The post Putting the Development into Professional Development Data appeared first on the Edthena blog. It’s the rare art exhibition that has only one piece of art.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

After their visit, scholars will write a piece for the Future of the Past Lab’s blog. CPS’s connections within and beyond the UMN will support fellows in engaging regional scholars, special collections, and museums. Fellows’ travel, lodging, and food costs will be covered, and each fellow will receive a $1,500 honorarium.

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Women's History Network

APRIL 21, 2024

Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On A free one-day conference at People’s History Museum, Manchester Friday 28 June 2024 Keynote speakers: Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal, and Hilary Wainwright 2024 marks the forty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the seminal socialist-feminist text Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism. (..)

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Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Has anyone else noticed that birth stories are super popular on blogs all of a sudden? My Job Hunt I graduated with my teaching degree in December 2013 and landed my dream job at a children’s museum working as their education director/exhibit designer/volunteer coordinator. Not judging, I totally read them myself!)

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 26, 2024

I present it here as a series of individual blogs for my readers. Links to the previously published chapters will be provided at the end of each blog. “The Civil War in Kentucky” is a 10-part series recently published in my Journey Log entitled “Surrounding Fort Knox, including Southern Indiana.”

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Women's History Network

JANUARY 14, 2024

Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On Friday 28 June 2024 People’s History Museum, Manchester Keynote speakers: Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal, and Hilary Wainwright 2024 marks the 45th anniversary of the publication of the seminal socialist-feminist text, Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Low-income kids can lose vast amounts of learning over the summer when they don’t have access to the same enriching activities as their higher-income peers, such as vacations, visits to museums and libraries, or even just time spent with family discussing academic concepts or everyday events.

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Life and Landscapes

AUGUST 5, 2024

SOUTHERN INDIANA AGAIN Navigation on the Ohio River James Howard and the Howard Steamboat Museum Surrounding Cannelton Deep Wilderness in Indiana, Branchville, and Leopold Into Oil Creek Geologic Expressions The “Indian” Wars Dhan and Suzan and the Ice Age Mammals!

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Rosie the History Teacher

JULY 31, 2020

Check out my back-to-school blog post from last year to see what my usual, non-rainforest home classroom looks like: [link] rosiethehistoryteacher.blog/2019/09/03/happy-first-day-of-school/ Lesson Planning I’m not going to lie, online lesson planning took me a while to wrap my head around. I taught my U.S.

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Carriage House at the Howard Steamboat Museum Mansion was available. A Board was formed and, in 1970, Wann decided to leave the high school and take over operations. His vision was the development of a semi-professional troupe of actors mostly composed of local amateurs. A stage was built inside, and the building renovated.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

I started with browsing an exhaustive amount of websites, academic journals, blog posts, digital museum tours, primary sources etc. When I ran into this unexpected barrier, I decided to work backwards; I was going to let the sources guide me instead of the supporting questions determining my research.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

I started with browsing an exhaustive amount of websites, academic journals, blog posts, digital museum tours, primary sources etc. When I ran into this unexpected barrier, I decided to work backwards; I was going to let the sources guide me instead of the supporting questions determining my research.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 28, 2024

The American Cave Conservation Association has built a wonderful museum there through which you can enter down. Treating and piping cleaned water to the Green River downstream from Munfordville, not far from where the mysterious Hidden River releases its water burden. You can now enter the Hidden River Cave through the town of Horse Cave.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

By thinking about educators more inclusively than classroom teachers, we can frame pedagogical competencies in ways that are as meaningful to high school physics teachers as museum educators working with groups of elementary students. We need to balance authenticity of evidence with what might be required gather and assess that evidence.

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