HistoryRewriter
DECEMBER 5, 2024
This month on The Social Studies Show Adam and I will talk about How to Talk Bridgey a report that shares lessons for using civic terms without alienating segments of your audience. The guide summarizes five years of research on civic language and can help teachers facilitate more productive classroom dialogue. Do your students know the coded and loaded words that influencers weaponize to push their buttons?
Digital Promise
DECEMBER 5, 2024
The post How I’m Using Data Gloves to Improve Communication Between Deaf and Hearing People appeared first on Digital Promise.
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Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Cave art has long been a touchstone for understanding the cognitive and cultural worlds of ancient humans. A recent study 1 examining hand stencils in Maltravieso Cave, Extremadura, Spain, provides transformative insights into the origins of symbolic expression. Through uranium-thorium (U-Th) dating, researchers have identified these artworks as some of the oldest known examples of parietal art, potentially created by Neanderthals over 66,000 years ago.
Digital Promise
DECEMBER 5, 2024
The post New Advisory Committee Focuses on Strengthening STEM Pathways in San Diego appeared first on Digital Promise.
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 5, 2024
A recent study led by researchers from London’s Natural History Museum and the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy reignites the debate over whether Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ( Homo neanderthalensis ) should be classified as separate species. Published in the Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society 1 , the study argues that distinctions in morphology, genetics, ecology, and evolutionary timing justify categorizing Neanderthals as a distinct species.
Studies Weekly
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Making Social Studies Fun to Teach | Teacher Testimonial Nov 07, 2024 Video Transcript Speaker : Manda Rensel, 1st Grade Teacher, PA Tell us why you love Studies Weekly! Manda Rensel: Hi, my name is Manda Rensel, and Im from Butler Catholic School. For the past many years, we havent had a great Social Studies curriculum. This year, we started with Social Studies Weekly, and I absolutely love it.
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 5, 2024
The story of the Clovis people, among the earliest inhabitants of North America, has long been one of hunting mammoths and navigating an Ice Age wilderness. A recent study by Chatters et al., published in Science Advances 1 , dives deeper into this narrative, using groundbreaking stable isotope analysis to reconstruct the diet of the Clovis people through the remains of a child buried 12,800 years ago in Montana.
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ED Surge
DECEMBER 5, 2024
It was early in the school day when a 17-year-old gunman began firing into a classroom in the art complex of Santa Fe High School, roughly 30 miles southeast of Houston, in May 2018. He terrorized fellow students and teachers for about 30 minutes before surrendering to police, killing 10, injuring 13 others and leaving the town of 13,000 to mourn. Amidst calls from parents to ensure students’ safety after the shooting, the Santa Fe Independent School District school board approved $2.1 million f
Political Science Now
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Contributions by Scholars of Color Interview Series: Highlights from Dr. Ollie Johnson of Wayne State University Dr. Ollie Johnson is chair and professor of the Department of African American Studies at Wayne State University. In this interview, Dr. Johnson reflects on his upbringing, introduction to political science, and various challenges he faced in his career, and additionally shares advice for young scholars in the discipline.
The Effortful Educator
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Sometime today (December 6, 2024) my website will reach quite a milestone…1,000,000 hits. Incredible. I just wanted to make a quick post to thank all of you who have, at some point across the past 8 years, read an article and perhaps shared it with someone else. It really means the world to me. From writing a guest blog post for The Learning Scientists in October of 2016, to starting this website that same month, to a book being published next month (!!!
Zinn Education Project
DECEMBER 5, 2024
The Zinn Education Project will have a booth at the American Historical Association (AHA) annual meeting in New York from January 46, 2024. Well have information about our Reconstruction report, Teach Climate Justice campaign, and all our people’s history lessons. There will also be resources from the two coordinating organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change.
Life and Landscapes
DECEMBER 5, 2024
SURROUNDING DISMAL ROCK Mammoth Cave is a world-class attraction, worthy of your immediate visit. May you soon enough wander within its dark passage! But we are headed aboveground today. Into Edmonson County, to the wonders that you missed driving through it to reach the Cave! Let us enter from the north, leaving the Freeway [I-65] at Munfordville, Kentucky.
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