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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross.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 could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could play Fantasy Geography.

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

Andrew Koricich: There are a lot of rural institutions that have sort of been struggling for a while, and you drop the Covid pandemic in the middle of that, which, you know, I think we’ve seen documented so many ways that the rural impacts were just qualitatively different than they were in urban areas. Criminal justice. Philosophy.

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19 Ideas for Setting Up Your Social Studies Classroom

Let's Cultivate Greatness

I also love my 3D relief United States map , which is really helpful in explaining events and helping my students study for their semester-long US geography test series. Founding Document Posters – Post poster-sized replicas of key founding documents related to your US History and Civics classes.

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Urban Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

Contemporary situation: There was a death and rebirth of urban anthropology in the 1990s and 2000s through the addition of spatial theories drawn from geography and a fuller understanding of the political economy of place.

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Opinion: Populism, science denial – How I, as a trans science-communicator, am moving forward.

Geogramblings

I’m also a member of the science communication community and the educator community, particularly the geography educators community here in the United Kingdom. You can always find me here on my blog and the Coffee and Geography podcast. There is a lot of intersection between those things. Really think about it.