Active History Teacher

MARCH 16, 2023

Have you ever assigned a decades project for your US History class? You’ve finished your US History curriculum and need something engaging for students to go as an end of the year project? It’s time to try a US History end of the year decades project! It’s the end of the year. Are you like me? Sound familiar?

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 15, 2025

Many of these remains were acquired through colonial grave robbing, unethical medical research, or outright theft. These were once living people, with families and histories. Non-Destructive Research Methods : Advances in technology allow researchers to gather data from skeletal remains without permanently altering them.

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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.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Researchers have discovered a genetic divide during the Bronze Age, which correlates with linguistic patterns between Eastern and Western Indo-European populations. In Greece and Armenia, steppe ancestry coincided with pivotal cultural developments. Credit: bioRxiv (2024). Kroonen, another author of the study.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 4, 2025

While sites in Iberia, Greece, and the Levant reveal a flourishing network of trade, agriculture, and technology, North Africa—except for Egypt—has often been cast as an empty land, a region untouched by the cultural currents shaping the rest of the ancient world. This is a crucial detail.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2024

The rest is now history. Packed with practical examples, research-based strategies, and stories, any educator can find the most effective way to personalize learning. Dive into how personalized learning can revolutionize education through real-world examples, research, practical advice, and inspiring stories.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

A groundbreaking discovery 1 from Prado Vargas Cave in northern Spain is reshaping perceptions of Neanderthals, highlighting their advanced cognitive and cultural practices. Instead, they displayed a deep appreciation for the natural world and engaged in complex social and cultural behaviors. Navazo Ruiz et al.,

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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. Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms. Weve all been there.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 27, 2025

Yet, could these stories also encode the history of humanity’s migrations and interactions? By combining genetic data with a vast database of over 2,000 mythological motifs, this research uncovers how the tales we tell may trace back to the Out of Africa migration, some 60,000 years ago.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 11, 2025

For decades, researchers have debated the nature of their interactions. The remains, which include both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, suggest a level of cultural exchange that challenges old narratives about the nature of their relationship. Did they coexist peacefully, exchanging ideas and technologies? Credit: Yossi Zaidner.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2025

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesias Riau Archipelago in search of Homo erectus remains, but uncovers how environmental devastation has erased much of the regions history. This diffuse and varied culture inhabited a vast area from Yunnan, China, to Sumatra, Indonesia, from about 40,000 to 2,000 years ago.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

While AI can provide data-driven insights and automate certain tasks, it needs a nuanced understanding of human relationships, cultural contexts, and complex decision-making processes essential for effective leadership. While observing a 7th-grade history teacher, I saw him telling jokes to build relationships at the beginning of the class.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As part of an ongoing series examining Contributions of Scholars of Color , the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Department conducted a a second set of oral history interviews during the 2024 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting held in Los Angeles, California. He received his Ph.D. He has a BA.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Culturally responsive education is not a one-size-fits-all approach. In my experience as a teacher, instructional coach, district leader, and education researcher, it has been critical to foster spaces where adults can first reflect on their own identities, biases, and lived experiences. Selecting culturally responsive texts.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Many lessons can be learned from past innovations that have reshaped culture and society. Sure, it might not work, but history has taught us that some of the greatest successes of all time resulted from failure. We tackled the grading culture when it became apparent that we were failing too many kids.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2025

The early human settlement of South America stands as one of the last great migrations in human history, yet the environmental conditions that shaped this journey remain debated. 2 ) takes different cultural components and specific lithic traditions/categories into account. The modelling work (e.g., <2,5000 masl = orange.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2024

They want to see themselves and their cultures reflected in the books we read, and they don’t want token representation. As a Colorado secondary school history teacher and former English teacher, I believe, and research shows, that student achievement improves when learners are personally engaged.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) have identified semi-domesticated maize specimens from caves in Brazil’s Peruaçu Valley, revealing a unique chapter in the crop’s evolutionary history.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As our team of researchers drove southeast through Utah toward Bears Ears National Monument , changes in the landscape unfolded around us. In addition to providing needed heat, wood-hauling practices are an essential part of cultural identity. The skyscrapers of Salt Lake City gave way to small towns surrounded by trees and mountains.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

However, the scale of ochre extraction and the evident skill involved at Lion Cavern marks this site as a unique focal point in the history of human creativity and ritual. Ochre’s Role in Early Human Society Ochre, valued across cultures and eras, was more than a mere pigment; it was a cornerstone of symbolic and ceremonial life.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

By analyzing genetic divergences in early Homo sapiens populations, researchers argue that the biological capacity for language must have been present at least 135,000 years ago. The researchers propose that language might have played a key role. This challenges the long-held view that language and symbolism arose in tandem.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The Maya civilization is celebrated for its monumental architecture, intricate calendars, and cultural sophistication. However, new research highlights their lesser-known mastery of aquaculture. Researchers excavate a canal site in Belize that was part of a ancient large-scale fish-trapping facility.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

But a new study, conducted by researchers at the University of Ferrara and published as a preprint on bioRxiv 1 , challenges this oversimplified account. Instead, the researchers found that the first light-skinned individuals did not appear until the Mesolithic period (~12,000 years ago), and even then, they were rare.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2025

Even now, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History alone has amassed the remains of more than 33,000 individuals. Many researchers were specifically interested in the ways people modified crania through flattening or binding, such as through practices in some parts of Vanuatu. While the U.S. Died October, 1921.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

We live in exciting times as unprecedented access to knowledge, research, and effective strategies at our fingertips can assist educators in creating meaningful experiences for students that align with both needs and strengths. This is yet another testament to the culture of learning that has been established. The rest is now history.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 18, 2025

In the 8th century CE, the Avars—an enigmatic group with roots in the East Asian steppes—settled in Central Europe, weaving a tapestry of cultural cohesion amid genetic diversity. Their findings reveal an intriguing story of cultural integration despite distinct genetic divides.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Discovering Emotion in Ancient Mesopotamia From the flutter of "butterflies in the stomach" to the weight of a "heavy heart," emotions are often tied to physical sensations in modern cultures. However, researchers caution that linguistic descriptions alone may not capture the full scope of emotional experience.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

High in the Zeravshan Valley of Tajikistan, the Soii Havzak rock-shelter has provided researchers with an invaluable glimpse into early human migration routes and daily life in Central Asia. Artifacts suggest that the Zeravshan Valley was not only a migration route but potentially a place of cultural exchange.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Researchers from the University of Tübingen have found that australopithecine hands exhibited the necessary muscle attachments for complex object manipulation. These findings offer new insights into the evolutionary pathways of dexterity and cultural development that began long before the genus Homo emerged. afarensis and A.

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NCHE

MARCH 25, 2024

After Jessica Ellison invited me to participate in a conversation about how academic historians might be of use to K-12 teachers, I did a little research: I asked teachers at our state social studies council what they most needed for their work. We take Ford up on his pronouncement: Bunk presents new interpretations of US history every day.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

Such interest also distracted from the breakthrough’s Nobel-worthy value: answering scientific questions about species’ history and evolution. But because his 1984 paper appeared in a journal published in East Germany, the research did not reach global scientists or publics. Other teams rushed to conduct similar research.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The students used questions I developed and used in my research project.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Recent analysis of artifacts from two Lusatian Culture cemeteries suggests that early metallurgists were not only working with iron from terrestrial sources but also incorporating metal from ataxite meteorites—an extremely rare form of nickel-rich iron that originates in space. A Witnessed Meteorite Fall?

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

The fact that there is no valid research base to support these mandates just builds greater resentment for the change process. One just has to refer to the history books to see how this has played out across the world since the beginning of time. This is a great example of forced change. Forced change rarely works.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

history instruction is essential for developing informed, engaged citizens who can navigate the complexities of modern society. Fordham Institute evaluated the state-of-state standards for civics and history across all fifty states. History in elementary and middle school; also require at least one year of U.S.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 19, 2025

An Ancient Cave with Modern Questions Franchthi Cave, nestled in the Peloponnesian peninsula of Greece, has been a silent witness to 40,000 years of human history. This approach minimizes ambiguities, allowing researchers to distinguish between protein sources with remarkable precision.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The less-selective schools that graduate high shares of low-income students help them succeed not only by reducing financial barriers, but also by providing an array of academic support through learning communities, peer support and undergraduate research experiences.

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