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How History Class Can Foster Lifelong Literacy Skills

Education Week - Social Studies

Parsing historical documents can train students to be critical consumers of information in their own lives, experts say.

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Let’s Shutdown the Government: An Instructional Game

Political Science Now

Lets Shutdown the Government: An Instructional Game By Michelle M. Buehlmann , University of North Dakota, Grand Forks In Lets Shutdown the Government: An Instructional Game , Dr. Buehlmann argues that government shutdowns are the crisis in a negotiation strategy, commonly called brinkmanship. This game presents shutdowns as a tool to foster acquiescence and relies on the assumption that elected officials benefit when their actions align with public preferences.

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Updating your language area with cloth pouches

Maitri Learning

Transform your classroom language center organization with cloth pouches - an innovative storage solution that preschool, Kindergarten, and elementary teachers love for creating accessible and delightful learning spaces. Scroll down to see some photos capturing how enticing your language materials can look and see details on how we've organized our shelves.

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Songs from “Jubilee Barndance” and a “Horsefly” essay!

Life and Landscapes

[link] Songs from our new musical, “Jubilee Barndance” (Wann and Van Stockum, Jr.), and a short essay entitled, “Horsefly” from my new journey book, “Surrounding Mammoth Cave!

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Hungry or horny? Whale makes record swim halfway across planet

Strange Maps

Was he hungry, horny, or just confused? Scientists dont know why a male humpback whale, unceremoniously labeled HW-MN1300828, showed up in the Zanzibar Channel, off the coast of Tanzania, in August of 2022. What they do know is that he traveled far farther, in fact, than any other whale ever recorded. The individual was spotted off Colombias Pacific coast in 2013 and 2017.