TeachThought

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

College planning often feels overwhelming for families. Parents juggle excitement about their childs future with anxiety over the financial, emotional, and logistical challenges ahead. Many dont know where to start, and as educators, were in a unique position to offer clarity and guidance. By helping parents understand the process early and in manageable steps, we can significantly change how families approach this important milestone.

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Advocacy High School Education 131

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Every presidential election year revives questions about our system of voting through the Electoral College. Teachers tell us that students find this the most perplexing feature of our constitutional system. Below, we offer an explanation of why the Electoral College exists, how it works, and what happens when the electoral count in any state is contested.

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Archiving Government American History History 95

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In the United States, young children attend programs that most refer to as “daycares” or “child cares,” staffed by people that many think of as “workers.” That has to change, argues author Dan Wuori in his new book, “ The Daycare Myth: What We Get Wrong About Early Care and Education (and What We Should Do About It). ” We ought to eliminate those terms from our lexicon and, instead, think of those programs as schools and the adults employed there as teachers, Wuori writes.

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K-12 Government Humanities Leadership 127

Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Ancient Mud Unlocks 130,000 Years of Australia’s Fire Management History Australia’s relationship with fire extends back thousands of years, with Indigenous land management practices deeply shaping the continent’s ecology. A recent study published in Science 1 examines how Aboriginal communities increased land management activities in southeastern Australia about 6,000 years ago, reducing forest shrub cover dramatically.

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Archaeology Humanities Cultures Tradition 77

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

With all the talk of the downsides of smartphones for teenagers, parents have looked to smartwatches as a way to stay in contact with their young children while avoiding the full internet and social media access of a phone. At least that was the narrative a couple of years ago. But more recently, more companies have been marketing smartwatches to kids as young as 4 and 5 years old.

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Research Educational Technology Education 99

Education Week - Social Studies

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The sources students consult, the kinds of arguments they make, differ from history to economics to geography.

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Social Studies Geography Teaching Economics 69

Living Geography

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

A StoryMap on forgotten woodlands and the clues they leave in the present day. Coilltean Caillte (Gaelic for 'Forgotten Woodlands') is a partnership project that has mapped over 15,000 Scottish place-names that suggest the presence of woodland. Many of the names appear in areas of ancient woodland, but others lie in open ground. Could these be the locations of long-forgotten woodlands?

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

An Environment Agency page explores the Great Gale of 1824 - two hundred years ago. From the page: On the night of 22 November 1824, a devastating storm struck England’s south coast and raged for two days. Winds reached hurricane force, with gusts exceeding 100 mph, causing widespread damage. Houses were severely flooded, whole villages destroyed, ships lost at sea and nearly 100 people were tragically killed.

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Education Week - Social Studies

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Students from Highlands High School in Texas came together as scholars and first-time voters to witness election results together.

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Government High School 61

Living Geography

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Green Careers are an essential area of interest for geographers to engage with, and to make the most of the links that we have with preparing students to work in environmental areas, or green energy. I've been collating some links in this area for some possible projects I might be involved in before the end of the year. November sees Green Careers Week between the 4th and the 9th.

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Geography 52

Stanford History Education Group

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

How Can You Tell if an Image or Video Is Real?

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

As part of my session at Practical Pedagogies, I put together a quick set of 6 challenges for the people in my session, with the chance of winning a copy of my 'Why Study Geography?' book. As usual, I had zero entries. so will keep the book for myself.

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Pedagogy Geography 52

Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Including the Electoral College in your civics and government class is essential. And since it’s a bit complicated, it’s a great topic to spend a few days on because there are so many ways to practice critical thinking and general social studies skills. Rather than just giving a quick overview of how the Electoral College works, take time to explore its origins, how it affects presidential elections today, and a few of the alternatives available.

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Teaching Civics Government Archiving 52

Living Geography

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Time to book for November. A cross-posting from the blog where I share my involvement with the RGS: it's called 'At the Home of Geography'. Check it out. The RGS-IBG 'A' level Study Days are always well worth a visit. Fancy a visit to the Society's HQ in London? Our popular A Level study day returns- this time looking at hazards, changing places and global governance.

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Geography Government 52

Sapiens

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Researchers refute a popular idea that black-furred squirrels behave more aggressively than gray ones—and suggest the myth stems from some people’s racist attitudes. SQUIRREL CHATTER A few years back, one of us was chatting with neighbors when the subject of squirrels came up. While most squirrels in the small New Jersey town were gray, everyone had noticed quite a few with black fur as well.

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Research Humanities Cultures Teaching 103

ShortCutsTV

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Not to be confused with the much older (but still useful) Psychology Teachers Toolkit, this particular Teachers’ Toolkit has more-official origins in the sense it’s a co-production between the British Psychological Society and the Association for the Teaching of Psychology.

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Psychology Teaching 52

Living Geography

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Toast, juice and coffee then off to get the coach to St. George's School which is in the countryside just outside Cologne. Met Russ the organiser again, and registered for the event. Check out Russ's websites here. The opening keynote was given by Hywel Roberts , who was once again a wonderful speaker with great humour and touching stories as well as a reminder of the importance of our stance with the young people we teach.

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Pedagogy Teaching Education 52

Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Probably the most fundamental part of teaching the executive branch is the president’s expressed and implied powers and all the roles they fulfill. But it’s a long list, and it can be tough to create a more creative lesson than just a lecture or textbook reading of them all. I find success using real-life examples from recent presidents and having fun with incorporating the “wears many hats” idiom.

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