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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APRIL 10, 2025

The shrinking of the NEH comes in addition to cuts to the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Smithsonian, and other organizations that support humanities, cultural and educational institutions, and they follow the new restrictions on projects deemed to promote DEI or gender ideology.

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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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Anthropology.net

MAY 1, 2025

These stories speak of migration, of belonging, of origins tied to Chaco Canyon, one of the great ceremonial and cultural centers of the ancient Puebloan world. People cast shadows on the ancient Anasazi ruins of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico on Nov. The interpretation was shaped by cultural context.

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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

APRIL 4, 2025

But beyond their everyday function of fastening and securing, knots hold something deeper: a story about the evolution of human cognition, the flow of culture, and the quiet persistence of shared technique across continents and millennia. The process of Gauss coding a simple knot. Image credit: Roope Kaaronen / University of Helsinki.

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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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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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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.net

MAY 9, 2025

Houston Museum of Natural Science. Though diminutive in size, these stone tools carry the weight of cultural practice: microscopic evidence of black pigment, signs of repeated use, and wear patterns consistent with puncturing soft tissue suggest their role in a deeply intimate and symbolic process—tattooing human skin.

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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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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 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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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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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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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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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

APRIL 14, 2025

A sweeping archaeological analysis 1 led by Gary Feinman of the Field Museum of Natural History offers a strikingly different view. What if inequality wasn’t a guaranteed outcome of agriculture, population growth, or the emergence of powerful rulers? “What this study suggests,” said Feinman, “is that we have choices.

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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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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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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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Zinn Education Project

JULY 15, 2024

The series, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is focused on six themes that are at the heart of SNCC’s history of grassroots organizing: the organizing tradition, voting rights, Black Power, women and gender, freedom teaching, and art and culture in movement building.

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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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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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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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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. The experience that someone called me a Nazi was very hard for me because I felt like people don''t understand me and the German culture.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2021

The two-year Rural Library Fellowship, funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Save the Children, is attempting to boost the capacity of libraries and “activate libraries around third grade reading” according to Dreama Gentry, executive director of Partners for Education at Berea College.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community.

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