A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 4, 2015

For a maker culture to succeed and thrive in a school, leadership matters. I learned some of these lessons unbeknownst to me as they were only brought to my attention after making to learn became an embedded component of our school culture. Selecting the right person to lead the initiative is pivotal.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

She credits a training program through the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan for preparing her to do so. Museums have largely escaped the culture wars roiling many school districts and are still seen as trusted institutions. government, according to data from the American Alliance of Museums.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

"We see a lag between when the genetic evidence tells us language capacity was present and when symbolic artifacts appear in the record," notes Ian Tattersall, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History and co-author of the study. This challenges the long-held view that language and symbolism arose in tandem.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

These findings offer new insights into the evolutionary pathways of dexterity and cultural development that began long before the genus Homo emerged. sediba displayed substantial manipulation abilities, which, while not necessarily linked directly to stone tools, could indicate broader cultural behaviors. A new study shows that A.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In addition to providing needed heat, wood-hauling practices are an essential part of cultural identity. federal agencies existed, the Bears Ears area holds enduring cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance to the tribes of the region. However, Indigenous practices do not always fit neatly with U.S.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

archaeologists study past humans and societies primarily through their material remains – the buildings, tools, and other artifacts that constitute what is known as the material culture left over from former societies. Application of Archaeology Archaeology is the study of human past through material remains. How were those pots used?

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 16, 2025

These sites, associated with the Funnel Beaker culture, were active around 2900 BCE. John Lee/National Museum of Denmark, R. The Stones of Bornholm Between 2013 and 2018, archaeologists excavated over 600 intricately carved stones from ritual sites on Bornholm. Iversen et al/Antiquity 2025 Read more

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Cultural Relativism Cultural Relativism expresses the idea that the beliefs and practices of others are best understood in the light of the particular cultures in which they are found. Most societies are not relativist: they view their own ways as good, other people's as bad, inferior, or immoral a form of ETHNOCENTRISM.

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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Something I’ve noticed is that most states have standards requiring students to learn about Native Americans, both pre-contact cultures and modern citizens. Please keep in mind that each cultural group has varying preferences in regard to language and treatment but there are some universal rules. Do not single out Native children.

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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. These discoveries highlight the cultural and spiritual significance of maize to the region’s ancient inhabitants. Bonavia, D., & Grobman, A. Cambridge University Press.

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TeachThought

JULY 12, 2024

Curate cultural artifacts and ‘local memory’ Today, museums do the work of ‘curating,’ but that’s a crude way to preserve the cultural artifacts that matter. Used closed communities (Facebook Groups, for example) that, while not fully open, are still school-wide. There are ways. Why can’t schools do this?

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Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

They congregated in Vondelpark, close to the citys famed museums and canals, and also in Oosterpark, where I jogged daily. According to medical anthropologist Eileen Moyer , the sculptor Nicolas Dings included this imagery to invoke thoughts of cultural diversity and tolerance toward migrants. Moyer, who is from the U.S.,

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

A groundbreaking study 1 led by researchers at the Nagoya University Museum in Japan offers fresh insights into the cultural evolution of Homo sapiens during their dispersal across Eurasia roughly 50,000 to 40,000 years ago. However, the recent study challenges this notion by examining stone tool technology over a 50,000-year span.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. Her son’s story will be on display for all the world to see when the new Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum open their doors for the state’s bicentennial next month. The museums are vast, engaging and traumatizing.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 15, 2025

But behind every collection of bones stored in laboratories and museums lies a deeper story—one of power, consent, and ethics. The authors argue for several key reforms: Transparency in Collection Histories : Museums and universities should fully document and disclose the origins of their skeletal collections. link] Colwell, C.

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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. In a museum basement, we huddled over a black-and-white photograph showing pieces of a lower jawbone and its loose teeth. Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Anthropologist Christopher Tilley beautifully phrases that often in material culture [t]he thing is the person and the person is the thing. 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.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 15, 2024

Here, seventy years ago, Ukrainian researchers excavated pivotal insights into the enigmatic Yamnaya culture—a nomadic pastoralist society that emerged approximately 5,000 years ago. Despite their sparse physical remains, primarily characterized by elongated burial mounds, the Yamnaya's cultural and genetic influence was profound.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. When MySpace lost 50 million songs during a server migration , it wasnt just a glitchit was a reshaping of independent music history, determined by infrastructure choices rather than cultural value.

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Living Geography

JULY 21, 2024

A new exhibition opens at the Migration Museum in September: on the 12th. The movement of people across the ages has profoundly shaped our landscapes and cities, our diets and fashions, our language and culture, and our ideas and beliefs. It explores the story of migration and how it has built modern Britain. What’s yours?

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

1933-2024 Credit: Penny de los Santos Sally McLendon (1933-2024) Sally McLendon was an American scholar of Indigenous languages, cultures, and histories in North America, with a special focus on the Indigenous languages and communities of Northern California. She completed her Ph.D. at Berkeley in 1966.

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Sapiens

MARCH 17, 2025

This map-shawl , itself inscribed by acts of erasure and extraction, is part of the Victoria and Albert Museums South & South East Asia Collection, where it is attributed to an unknown artist/maker. The sixth erasure overlays a photo of a 19th-century embroidered map-shawl of Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir and Jammu.

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Sapiens

APRIL 2, 2025

The project saw researchers, practitioners, and museum experts unpacking the legacy of the morbid practice of collecting ancestral human remains that was popular in Euro-American circles in the 19th and 20th centuries. The archive was a burial site. In some, I listen for and try to sense unknown women.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Activity, context, and culture are central to this learning theory, which emphasizes the practical over the abstract. ” When learning happens in context, it reflects a time, place, and culture. When people tackle everyday challenges, they learn. Learning in context makes that learning more relevant and applicable to life.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Credit: Boglárka Mészáros, BHM Aquincum Museum A team of geneticists, archaeologists, and historians from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the HistoGenes project examined the DNA of 370 individuals dating from the 2nd century BCE to the 6th century CE, spanning sites from Mongolia to Central Europe.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A Reflection on the 2023 Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology, organized by the Council for Museum Anthropology Spot-lit sweeping ceramic vases made by the artist Dame Magdalene Odundo were the centerpieces of the exhibition Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects presented at the Gardiner Museum from October 2023 to April 2024.

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Hundreds of PreK-12 teaching and learning resources that support developmentally appropriate skill-building and leverage both well-known and lesser-known stories in American history are freely available online for use in the classroom and at home

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Although, these categories of findings are often seen as ‘objective’ and scientific in nature and are not really linked to existing socio-cultural hierarchies, their use by the ruling dispensation like what Hoddar (2005) argues are nevertheless part of politics, politics of identity construction and formulation.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 6, 2025

Photograph: Dorset Museum/PA There is also the tantalizing possibility that Flagstones represents not just a predecessor to Stonehenge but a completely separate regional tradition. It suggests that the shift toward large circular monuments began earlier than expected and was more widespread than previously thought.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures. As you teach students about a culture some may be unfamiliar with, it can pique their curiosity and renew their interest. Many museums offer online resources that you can use instead. If you can’t find one, don’t worry.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

Image credit: Hunan Museum Collection Database.) The Cultural Shift: How China Embraced the Domestic Cat The arrival of Felis catus was not merely a biological event; it marked a cultural shift in how Chinese society interacted with felines. Markings on the cat's fur suggest it's a leopard cat, not a domestic cat.

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Teaching Anthropology

JUNE 12, 2023

London Anthropology day, 30 th June 2023, British Museum Are you fascinated by different cultures? Curious about human evolution? Or looking for a broad and exciting degree? Discover what anthropology is all about by popping along to the British Musuem for London Anthropology Day.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. EdSurge spent a morning with the teachers as they toured Smithsonian museums in small groups. Photo by Rebeccca Koenig. WASHINGTON — Curiosity and creativity were on display when dozens of top teachers from around the U.S.

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Life and Landscapes

JANUARY 6, 2025

The Adena People, the Hopewellian traders, the Mississippian maize-based cultures? Check out the museum. Did the later, great mound-building Native Americans peer into the mouth of this large river junction? Is that why there were so few villages in Kentucky when the Europeans reached it? .”

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan. Johnson is currently preparing two journal articles for publication: “Racial Representation and Black Struggle in the Brazilian Congress,” and “Promoting Afro-Brazilian Culture and History: An Analysis of the Fundao Cultural Palmares.”

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2019

Creating Cross-Cultural Connection and Collaboration. HP Teaching Fellow Christopher Burica connected his sixth grade class with students in England to learn more about their culture. The resulting project was a United States/United Kingdom Cultural Museum in Minecraft. Chris says.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 31, 2010

Holocaust Memorial Museum and the overseas trip to Germany, Czech Republic, and Poland. Jenny Eisenberg, from the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs arranged for the teachers to visit our school. We soon discovered that our approaches are not worlds apart and that we share many common themes in our teaching of the subjects.

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