8 Strategies To Engage Students At The Beginning Of Class
TeachThought
DECEMBER 27, 2024
As a strategy for the beginning of class, it's hard to beat surveys to answer the question, Whats this got to do with me?
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Teaching the Executive Branch
Passion for Social Studies
DECEMBER 27, 2024
One topic that is always popular when teaching any government course is the presidency. Honestly, students are always so engaged to learn about the person who is the leader of the United States. They want to know everything they can about the role once the person officially enters the White House. So, teaching the executive branch is always fun and exciting!
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Ancient DNA Reveals Genetic and Linguistic Divides in the Bronze Age Mediterranean
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 27, 2024
The origins of Indo-European languages, which today stretch from Ireland to India, have long fascinated archaeologists and linguists. A new study 1 adds clarity to this enduring mystery by examining ancient genomes across the Mediterranean. Researchers have discovered a genetic divide during the Bronze Age, which correlates with linguistic patterns between Eastern and Western Indo-European populations.
Challenging Book Bans
Zinn Education Project
DECEMBER 27, 2024
In 2024, there were increased attacks on teaching Black history, including anti-CRT laws and book bans. To counter these attacks, we secured donations from authors and publishers to increase classroom access to the books listed below on African American history. 10,000 copies of Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad 3,087 copies of the young readers’ edition of The Rebellious Life of Mrs.
Knowledge / Ignorance and Caring About the Food We Eat and Study
Anthropology News
DECEMBER 27, 2024
As anthropologists, we study what we care about, making research an intimate undertaking. In the study of food, we even ingest and incorporate our subject matter into our very bodies. Here, Dr. Mecca Howe and Ariana Gunderson discuss the effects of our food research on our personal relationships with food, while considering the role of our eating choices within the food system and our research for the communities we study.
Defying the Censorship: People’s History Taught in More Classrooms
Zinn Education Project
DECEMBER 27, 2024
No wonder the right is upset. More than 9,000 teachers signed up to access peoples history lessons in 2024 ,bringing our full registration at the Zinn Education Project to close to 170,000 teachers, with representation from every state. A recent American Historical Association study of teaching U.S. historyin secondary schools found that more than aquarter of the teachers surveyed use Zinn Education Project resources.That percentage is comparable to other organizations in their report with budge
What Counts as “Drudgery” and Who Decides?
Anthropology News
DECEMBER 27, 2024
While I was in Rajasthan, studying Indias traditional mud stove ( chulha in Hindi), women who use it, and those looking to improve it, I started a conversation about my research with a kitchen goods retailer in a small-town market. He nodded cheerfully and assured me, All women are free in India; you can talk with them freely. They have no work. Apparently, he didnt get the memo, for cookstove improvers commonly use the word drudgery to describe rural womens hard work to obtain fuelwood for dail
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Practicing Self-Care Beyond Self
Anthropology News
DECEMBER 27, 2024
It was a beautiful day in October 2022, and the leaves were turning vibrant shades of red and yellow. I was interviewing Yuna (all names in this article are pseudonyms), one of my interlocutors for my research on suicidalityincluding suicidal thoughts, plans, and attemptsamong young South Korean women in their twenties and thirties. Yuna, a 34-year-old woman, had been experiencing suicidal thoughts since she was around 13 and had attempted suicide multiple times since the age of 21.
The Integration of Family Bedside Care in Zambian Public Hospitals
Anthropology News
DECEMBER 27, 2024
Bedsiders support under-staffed and under-resourced hospitals within power dynamics and policies that often do not reciprocate that support. Introduction You know what? When you have 44 patients, and you only have maybe two nurses on duty, you find that you cannot manage to do the basic things, the basic procedures. And so, the bedsiders now come in, like, to help out on those small, you know, procedures like bathing the patient, changing the linen, and sometimes even feeding.
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