World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 14, 2024

Here's an excellent overview of how different religions spread along the Silk Road. It's from Crash Course Geography so it may not be noticed by those of us who teach history.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 14, 2024

The post How Researchers and Coaches are Working Together to Innovate STEM Education appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Political Science Now

JUNE 14, 2024

Sofia Rosales is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. At Michigan State University, she holds the prestigious position of University Enrichment Fellow. Sofia’s fields of study center around American politics with a minor in public policy, complemented by a certificate in Chicano and Latino studies.

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Living Geography

JUNE 14, 2024

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History blog, which has over 300 posts. A new article in 'Teaching Times' by Mary Colwell gives a bit of an update into the state of the GCSE Natural History, and its possible introduction in 2026. She mentions the assessment as being based on coursework and fieldwork - I think that is very unlikely. The Subject Criteria have now been written and were signed off by Damien Hinds, who is the current Minister of State for Schools.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 14, 2024

Genetic clues have unveiled a type of ritual child sacrifice at an ancient Maya site that consisted only of young boys, often chosen as closely related pairs that included twins. The discovery stems from a burial of more than 100 people in an underground chamber discovered in 1967 at Chichén Itzá, a once-dominant Maya city in what is now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.

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Living Geography

JUNE 14, 2024

This has been getting a lot of coverage. a cultural "sense of place" offering for cultural geographers. Leon Mallett's version of another song, but with plenty of East Anglia references. You can find the full version of the song online.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 14, 2024

The right is doing all they can to suppress the teaching of history, but they are not succeeding. How do we know? Check out this list of lessons that were most frequently downloaded from the Zinn Education Project website during the 2023–2024 school year! Read the list and donate so that we can provide more teachers with these lessons. Teaching the Seeds of Violence in Palestine-Israel By Bill Bigelow This mixer/mystery activity helps students understand Zionism, anti-Zionism, peasant resistance

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