TeachThought
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
From promoting vocabulary to fostering creative storytelling, LEGOs offer a surprisingly useful tool for literacy education The post The Benefits Of Using LEGOs To Promote Literacy appeared first on TeachThought.
Women's History Network
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The year is 1649 and Lady Jean Wemyss has a headache. Since paracetamol won’t be invented for another several hundred years, Jean reaches for the next best thing: a handwritten recipe book. The cure, written down in her mother’s neat hand, suggests the use of some trusted betony water.
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TeachThought
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Circle practice in the classroom involves sitting in a circle and engaging in age-approriate meaningful dialogue. The post Getting Started Using Talking Circles In The Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Jared Ten Brink, a doctoral student in education at the University of Michigan, is an enrolled member of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi. He lives a two-and-a-half hour drive from the tribe’s reservation, which makes it hard for him to help his two young kids learn about their Native heritage. As a former science teacher and instructional coach, though, he was looking for a way to deliver the teachings of tribal elders to a broader audience via distance education.
Sapiens
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
As synthetic prayer flags and scarves pollute the Himalayan region, a team of scholars and activists work to spread sustainable materials drawn from Indigenous knowledge. ✽ In the summer of 2022, one of us, Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia, brought gifts to his relatives with babies in northeast India. In their Sikkimese Bhutia community, new mothers receive chicken, cash, and other items known as Bya-kay—literally, “bringing a chicken.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
“My students can't use these digital programs.” “I don't have time to use technology with my littles.” “It’s exhausting to get them all logged in.” “Our students already have so much daily screen time.” In my role as a technology specialist — or tech coach — at an elementary school, I support teachers of students in pre-K through second grade and I often hear comments like these.
Education Elements
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Did you know that New York State has nearly 800 public school districts? (Source: nysed.gov ). This ranks New York in the top 10 states with the highest number of school districts per state (Source: nces.ed.gov ). Within those districts exist some of the largest and smallest in the country. In a small village between the Shawangunk Ridge and the Catskill Mountains, Ellenville Central School District (CSD) serves 1,475 students in seven different communities.
Social Studies Network brings together the best content for social studies educators from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Living Geography
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
A story in a weekend's Guardian newspaper explores the world of the "preppers". These are people who have started to prepare for some future scenario where society may break down, I've blogged about this previously, due to the book 'Bunker' by Bradley Garrett. Wired reported on the $100 million retreat being built by Mark Zuckerberg in Hawaii. Image from: [link] This focusses on the preparations made by wealthy individuals as well.
Heinemann Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The following is an adapted excerpt from Andrea Honigsfeld’s forthcoming Growing Language and Literacy: Strategies for Secondary Multilingual Learners, Grades 6-12.
Living Geography
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
This project came my way via Facebook. Fenlandia is a visionary interdisciplinary initiative, committed to celebrating, preserving, and interpreting the rich cultural and environmental heritage of the Fenland basin in the United Kingdom’s East Anglia region. This initiative integrates diverse artistic platforms – including visual arts, music and heritage projects – in both conventional and unexpected locations.
O-Level Geography
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
A shore excursions turned nightmare as the volcano on white island erupted 2019. Who was responsible for the loss of lives due to the eruption? Why are tourists attracted by volcanoes such as the one on White Island? What are the impacts of a volcanic eruption? Read more on the sentencing of groups responsible for the disaster.
Pedagogy and Formation
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The Wisdom of Taylor Swift I started this post on 23.2.24. It was a very warm summer night in Sydney. As we say in Australia, it was a 'sticky' (humid) evening so I had the window in my study wide open. I could hear frogs in various pots in the garden, crickets singing their sweet songs, and Taylor Swift singing in the stadium at Olympic Park, just a 5-minute drive away and about 3 km (as the crow flies).
O-Level Geography
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
More than 320,000 solar panels will be installed across 1,075 HDB blocks and 101 government-owned buildings, with a total solar capacity of 130 megawatt-peak (MWp). The project will be able to power more than 50,000 four-room flats and help reduce carbon emissions by at least 96,360 metric tonnes each year. How will this project help to mitigate climate change?
Education Week - Social Studies
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Schools and universities can help get students registered to vote and help adolescents develop regular voting habits.
Rockin Resources - Social Studies
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The post 10 Teaching Activities for Women’s History Month appeared first on Rockin Resources.
Political Science Now
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science. Awards support basic research which is theoretically derived and empirically oriented.
Anthroholic
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Kuru disease, a terrifying prion disease with a unique and tragic history, serves as a stark reminder of the consequences of cultural practices and the complexities of human behavior.
Political Science Now
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Komal Preet Kaur , covers the new article by Daniel Masterson, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Refugee Networks, Cooperation, and Resource Access.” How do refugees address community challenges and access essential services?
Teaching American History
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Amanda Bryan excepted today’s blog from our Core Documents volume, Political Parties , edited by Eric Sands. Download the volume in our bookstore today. Political parties have a long and often convoluted history in American politics. To the Founders, parties were factions that threatened to divide the nation into competing groups that, at the worst, could turn to violence to advance their interests.
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