Studies Weekly

MARCH 28, 2025

Sensory Balls Move a weighted sensory ball back and forth across your desk to prepare the arms for painting, drawing, or holding a book to read. Finger Push-Ups Do finger push-ups or rubber band stretches between fingers to strengthen fine motor skills.

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Future of History

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Teaching about Judaism, Christianity and Islam needs to be a staple in middle school world history and culture classes. On the anniversary of October 7, Lauren Brown points out misconceptions and offers resource ideas to help counter students' frequent confusion.

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HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This post features examples of a 10th-grade World History class practicing interpreting literary criticism. This was a part of a large, interdisciplinary project that required the collaboration of an ELA teacher, a History teacher, and a Spanish teacher. The books are archived here.

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World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Teaching Reconstruction in US History? Kidada Williams begins her book, "I Saw Death Coming" by reviewing developments immediately after the Civil War. Here is a fascinating overview from the viewpoints of the many freed slaves who experienced it. The events undid many individuals and families. Would they live through a raid?

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

History books teach us that civilization arose with the Neolithic Revolution when hunter-gatherers first settled down because of the discovery of agriculture. Here's a clip from the History Channel about the discovery of Göbekli Tepe. Did civilization arise before religion or did religion arise before civilization?

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

Dear Bonni, I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this year. Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? What do I do? I feel weird about testing them on genocide.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2023

He even brought me very good motivational books to read and try, such as “Atomic Habits” and “The Power of Habit.” Slowly I got the motivation to study again and started reading books on the side of those lessons. His book gave me new motivation and changed my way of thinking in life. But in those hard days, I was not alone.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

. — On the long drive south, as the land on the horizon turned from mottled green to dusty brown, the college professor’s Subaru carried four cartons of doughnuts, two bags of fresh produce and a bin of children’s books. This story also appeared in High Country News. All of it was destined for rural schools. And that’s just what he did.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

Dr. Truschke also recommends the first few pages of the book, Everyday Hindusim, for its review of caste, which she says appears in the first 5 pages of the book. You can identify caste through various factors, including surname, accent, dress, region of origin, and even visible face markers." Here is a link to Dr. Truschke's tweet.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

William Dalrymple, the author of numerous books about India, including " T he Anararchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire , " is starting a new podcast called "Empire." Anita Anand, author of the Patient Assassin , will cohost the podcast with Dalrymple.

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World History Teachers Blog

JULY 24, 2022

One of Professor Rediker's books is about the slave ship itself. Here is an interesting interview with Professor Marcus Rediker about the transatlantic slave trade. He discusses the characteristics of those ships and types of resistance. This interview would work well with a unit about the time period between 1450-1750.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

They come from Professor Peter Frankopan and are based on an illustrated adaptation of his best-selling book by the same name. Here are some excellent resources for teaching the Silk Roads , especially to younger students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

When students are virtually immersed in material, they experience it in ways that can’t be conveyed by a picture in a book or line of text, VR proponents say. Sometimes technology is cool but not particularly educational, said Cornell teacher Andrew Erwin, whose sophomore world history class took a virtual field trip to Rome.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

That suggestion is based on data collected from millions of other consumers and used to spot trends (a reader who likes history books might also be interested in historical fiction). But little data analysis can help the student learn something about her reading habits: Is she more likely to read more pages in the morning?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

While general education classrooms at Covina High School in this town in the Valley east of Los Angeles were stocked with algebra and geometry books, Parry was given a book that covered only basic math. Neither used the same books as the general education classes; nor were they designed to prepare students for college.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

Learning about the warming planet left her feeling like she “was being suffocated,” she said.

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Rosie the History Teacher

DECEMBER 14, 2019

My 9th grade US History class is finishing up the World War I unit and they have learned so much! I focus on the US involvement in the war and students will learn about global perspectives in their World History class in 10th grade.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 14, 2022

What compromises must an artist make that a historian writing an article or book might not have to think about or might not accept? Consider the existing archaeological periodizations of the Americas as well as the effects on Native peoples today What does historical reconstruction art offer that more traditional academic output might not?

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Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Teaching positions for history and biology were rather scarce in my area, so I applied pretty much everywhere in a 50 mile radius. I was going to be the founding history teacher at a little school in Metro Detroit! This is how I felt about being hired to teach history! That was a busy time! The students are coming!

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Leah Cleary

JULY 28, 2024

I’ll share practical strategies from the book The Writing Revolution and introduce sentence imitation exercises from my own program, Writing Blocks , to help your secondary students become strong writers one sentence at a time. Crafting sentences is a skill at the heart of all types of writing, from essays to research papers.

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4QM Teaching

MAY 7, 2023

Most of us who work in schools are motivated at least in part by a desire to make the world better, and it’s nice to know that our work actually makes a difference in what young people know and can do. And many elementary schools have basically not been teaching history for some time now. The main reason for that is state testing.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

Founding Document Posters – Post poster-sized replicas of key founding documents related to your US History and Civics classes. Again, I point at them daily in my US History and Civics classes. World Flags – You may also love displaying flags from around the world if you teach World History or Current World Issues.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

It is an open-access academic journal with essays, roundtables, and book reviews. The website includes a section of new books about revolutions. Another example includes book recommendations about the history of slavery. Here three historians offer book suggestions for educating ourselves about the history of slavery.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

History students. For the full 90-minute block period students discussed, jotted down notes, and exclaimed in both horror and shock as they learned about a sliver of our country’s hidden history. Paradoxically, teaching people’s history leaves more room for hope than any other educational framework. Here are just a few.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If you're a US History teacher looking for PDF worksheets for your high school or middle school classroom, I have tons to share, including this 30+ page packet of free engaging assignments you can download and start using right away. Each US History unit also include thorough 9-page worksheets packets for every unit in the curriculum.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

On April 6, the department gave approval to only 19 of the books but then worked for the past month to get publishers to update their texts. history and world history courses. Eventually, many of the rejected books were approved after making some changes.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Its “ 1776 Curriculum ” for grades K-12 has been criticized for revisionist history, including whitewashed accounts of US slavery and depictions of Jamestown as a failed communist colony. Meanwhile, according to documents published by WHYY shortly after the election, school administrators were imposing new restrictions.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It means school curricula, materials and lessons acknowledging that racism and racist actions are an uncomfortable part of our nation’s history (e.g., It means seeking to understand and value each individual for who they are, including their background and different life experiences.

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