Anthropology.net

APRIL 4, 2025

By analyzing 338 distinct knots from archaeological archives and museum collections, they discovered a surprisingly stable repertoire. — Though not a paper, this book provides key theoretical underpinnings about cumulative cultural evolution, relevant to understanding knot standardization. Princeton University Press.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Morphological characterization of a teosinte sample at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in the United States. Link to Book Provides an in-depth exploration of maize’s origins, evolution, and significance in South American societies. Bonavia, D., & Grobman, A. Cambridge University Press.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

For example, my students read a variety of books about education to learn more about challenges and solutions in the field. Instead of hosting a class discussion, my students host roundtable discussions about their books, designing their own discussion questions and takeaways to share.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

He has authored 50 scholarly publications including five books—the latest on the role of religion in IR, Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats and World Politics (2020) and another on the African American liberation struggle of the 1960’s-70’s, The Revolution Will not be Theorized (2019). Watch the full interview series on YouTube.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2021

She started planning scheduled events at her library for local child care centers, recommending books tailored to what children were learning in school and established a partnership with a local health center to create a mentoring program. Thomas-Burroughs came away with a host of ideas.

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ACRE

JUNE 19, 2023

Student Exploration Students visiting the museum can take a guided tour of both Hemingway’s studio & the Pheiffer home. The Pfeiffer house is filled with authentic furniture, photographs, books, quilts, and other items from the time period. The agricultural history of the Arkansas Delta region.

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Teaching Anthropology

JUNE 12, 2023

London Anthropology day, 30 th June 2023, British Museum Are you fascinated by different cultures? View the programme and book here: [link] #LAD2023 #anthropology #university #learn #teaching #teachers #teachinganthropology #londonanthropologyday #students #education #universities #career #london Image by Frans van Heerden (Pexels)

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Life and Landscapes

JANUARY 6, 2025

John Filson, in the map accompanying his 1784 book entitled, “The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucke,” shows “Big Bone Cr.” Check out the museum. Its productive uplands are cut by creeks straining to reach those mighty rivers’ drainage. Stay at the lodge, in a cabin, or at the campground.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

To support Katie and the freedom to learn, we will continue this offer to send a copy of My Shadow Is Purple and related titles to Georgia teachers who agree to read the book in their classroom. Teachers who agree to participate receive a free book. Classroom Sign Up Read-Aloud Books You can select any one of these children’s books.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

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 high school principal contacted me recently and we are arranging to meet with Sarah, her classmates, and the principal in Berlin.

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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Give preference to books written by Native authors. It is certainly preferable to read to your students from books written by Native Americans when teaching Native cultures or stories. Never use books that portray Native people as animals or that trivialize their importance.

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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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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

They are rallying to defend the right to teach truthfully, to protest book bans, and to defend LGBTQ+ rights. There’s a very good book called Conjuring Freedom that talks about that South Carolina regiment of Colored Troops and the beautiful Ed Dwight monument on the South Carolina State House grounds.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Easily access real-world learning materials like video tutorials, primary and secondary sources for research projects, museum collections, historical sites, and digital books, available online and often for free. Reading materials can include print or digital books, graphic novels, magazines, and online articles.

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Historic Sites Museum Library Interactive Learning 118

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Ivy’s own hospital will not retest the family because she has already been cleared to work, so recently she spent an afternoon desperately calling testing centers in the area, already booked days in advance, to see if anyone would test them. Museum Mile was near their new home. “ Presley started at Museum Mile on Monday, March 30.

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

I remember when I was a little girl, you could still go to the museum and see the Native American remains before the governor ordered the museum to cover them up.” Perhaps there are some out there who might think public history is better left to local museums or genealogical societies alone.

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Pedagogy to Share

OCTOBER 20, 2022

I remember asking parents to bring a book in Russian for the children to read during quiet reading time or when they couldn’t participate in an activity. I collected second-hand children’s books in Russian through Facebook for those who didn’t have one.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2020

He suggested that parents take turns reading books aloud for groups of children via video or a conferencing platform, and that parents focus on giving kids experiences, rather than structured academic lessons, since that’s how they learn best at this age. Many museums offer virtual tours.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A new book by Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt asks, How will America’s colleges and universities adapt to remarkable technological, economic and demographic change? In addition, there’s the growth in noncollegiate educational providers, including museums and industry, along with new higher education-business partnerships.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Issiah, 9, completes a worksheet at the Read to Succeed summer program sponsored by the Mississippi Children’s Museum. That need for help is where organizations like the Mississippi Children’s Museum step in. Connie Williams-May, a Jackson teacher, works with students at a reading camp sponsored by the Mississippi Children’s Museum.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

RGS Winter Social Dec 5 on the theme of Geography and the Arts A quick reminder if you haven’t booked that the Eastern area RGS Winter Social event is coming up – on Thursday 5th December. One for those in the East of England particularly. If you are an RGS member or fellow, a discount applies on the ticket.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Option 1 Science: Design a new experiment to test a scientific hypothesis Science: Write a research paper on an environmental issue Math: Solve a set of problems and explain your solutions in a video tutorial Math: Develop a math game that helps others learn about a mathematical concept or process English : Write an essay analyzing the symbolism in (..)

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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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

For four weeks, she and a dozen or so peers heard from guest speakers, went on field trips to schools and museums in the area and participated in a weekly yoga practice with meditation. They want to be seen, they want to be heard, they want to be taught different types of books,” Kinloch explains.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

High-income children are more likely to travel, go to museums and attend live performances. It can also clash with research on student motivation, in which students feel more excited to read when they choose books that interest them instead of books that are assigned to them. All this exposure helps them become better readers.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2018

For example, only 32 percent of poor kids and 44 percent of “near” poor kids went to an art gallery, a museum or an historical site over the summer. And one-third of kindergarten graduates of all income levels looked at or read books every day. Roughly 40 percent of non-poor kids — middle class and wealthy — attended summer camp.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The presentation of the findings of archaeology to the public cannot avoid difficult political issues, and the museum curator and the popularizer today have responsibilities which some can be seen to have failed. These include objects significant to the archaeology, architecture, science or technology of a specified culture.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Rising fourth graders listen as a teacher reads a book at an elementary school summer program in Silver Spring, MD. Art galleries, museums, or historical sites were popular with almost two-thirds of non-poor families, while less than a third of poor families took their kindergarteners to these locations in the summer before first grade.

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Historic Sites Museum Elementary School Library 133

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

If kids designed high schools, the classrooms would be full of computer screens, books, games and holograms — and there would be no tests. Students attend classes at Brooklyn LAB school Submitted photo. BROOKLYN, N.Y.—If Or at least that was the ideal world imagined by a group of Brooklyn middle schoolers this year.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2017

The new movie Hidden Figures, based on the book of the same title by Margot Lee Shetterly, tells the story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. In her book, Shetterly cites data showing how far black women have come, but also reminds us of our current struggles. “In Margot Lee Shetterly writes in her book, Hidden Figures.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I’m in a conference room in a Civil War museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin, attending a keynote panel about preventing violence in the lead-up to the U.S. An anthropologist shares three key insights from a community action program in Wisconsin. ✽ “So, what is one thing that you want Wisconsinites to know or do around the upcoming election?”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2024

Only two of sixteen 10- to 12-year-olds interviewed could explain the basic facts of climate change; one had done a fifth-grade research project and the other had visited the Climate Museum, a temporary exhibit in New York City. On top of not knowing the facts, kids this age expressed some pretty dark feelings.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2019

proactively work to keep the subject from the books, principally by manipulating state education standards and authorizing sanitized texts. In the apartheid museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, patrons are randomly sorted into the white or non-white entrance lines. We, too, can only learn from our history when we know it.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. I went from visiting the Museum of Chinese in America ( MoCA ) to learning mostly about the Civil War,” he said. He stared at her blankly. She didn’t stop.

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Living Geography

AUGUST 28, 2024

Up to Manchester for a few days and explored several areas of the city (including visits to some of the Quarters). It's now in the news for the reunion of two brothers who fell out.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 10, 2019

But time spent at home, reading independently or talking about books and stories with parents, seems to have a greater influence on children’s academic growth than summer camps or vacations, new research suggests. Low-SES children were increasingly more likely to spend more time at home watching television or playing computer games.

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