Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Vietnam War was a pivotal event in world history. It shaped global politics, the nature of warfare, and international relations. So, it is essential that students understand its causes and impacts on the United States. Thankfully, the Vietnam War Lesson and Recent US History Unit are ready to make learning meaningful and planning a breeze! The Importance of Teaching about the Vietnam War There are many reasons why students must develop a strong understanding of the Vietnam War.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 31, 2025

Check out Sewage Map to see just how polluted your local river is. Sewage Map This map shows, in real-time, which river sections are downstream of sewage discharges from storm overflows. About the Data The data is collected through Event Duration Monitoring by individual water companies, providing near-real time data on storm overflows. Such overflows release untreated, diluted sewage into the environment.

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Humanities 52

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 31, 2025

We love hearing how people found us and why theyve signed up to access peoples history lessons from the Zinn Education Project. More than 169,050 educators have signed up to access peoples history lessons. Please donate so that we can continue to provide our lessons for free and defend teachers right to use them. The post Why I Registered appeared first on Zinn Education Project.

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History Education 52

O-Level Geography

JANUARY 31, 2025

What type of plate boundary is the Great East African Rift? Why does the plates move? How does the movement results in the formation in tectonic features such as the Rift valley? Why would a new ocean be formed due to the movement?

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Living Geography

JANUARY 31, 2025

A new post on the GA blog from Paula Richardson is about the importance of carrying out local fieldwork. I love the title. The blog post also trails this year's National Festival of Fieldwork which takes place in June once again. Start thinking about how you might get your school involved.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JANUARY 31, 2025

Photo by Shane Aldendorff on Pexels.com A group of teachers are all about to teach a year 7 Science lesson. Theyre all in the same place on the scheme of work, and todays lesson involves students doing a practical. Lets assume for arguments sake that each class has a roughly equivalent mix of students in terms of prior attainment, SEND, EAL etc. Teacher A stands at the front of the room and, slowly and clearly, explains the instructions step-by-step to the class.

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Ben Newmark

JANUARY 31, 2025

In 1429 a French peasant with no military experience led an army against the Anglo-Burgundians, driving them from their bastion and forcing them to retreat across the Loire River. At the age of thirteen she began hearing voices sent by God. They gave her a scared mission to save France by expelling its enemies and installing its rightful king. She was later captured and burnt at the stake.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 31, 2025

We often speak of flowers as emblems of natural beauty, as if their allure springs spontaneously from the earth itself. But when Hong received her carton of flowers on a sweltering summer day, she confronted a different reality. The severely dehydrated and partially damaged blooms demanded immediate intervention:ruined leaves trimmed, bruised petals picked off, driedstems rehydrated,room temperature carefully adjusted, and more.

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Artifacts Anthropology Humanities Cultures 94

Political Science Now

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Michael Brintnall Teaching and Learning Award supports faculty attendance at the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference and is named in honor of former APSA Executive Director Michael Brintnall, who was deeply committed to advancing the scholarship of teaching and learning in the discipline. Intae Choi is a Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow in the Truman School of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, where he earned his Ph.D. in Public Affairs in 2024.

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Geogramblings

JANUARY 31, 2025

Climate science and related disciplines (like social and economic science on climate change impacts and solutions) is constantly envolving. Back in 2020, I was comissioned by the Geographical Association to produced some member-access resources, with some minor updates for 2022. A lot happens in just three years when it comes to the issue of climate change, and while those GA resources are still relevant and useful , recently commissioned work has compelled me to update some of those resources a

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Education Economics Critical Thinking Humanities 74

Political Science Now

JANUARY 31, 2025

The APSA Award for Teaching Innovation honors a wide range of new directions in teaching by recognizing a political scientist who has developed an effective new approach to teaching in the discipline. Citation from the Award Committee: Dr. Shamira Gelbman’s commitment to centering how students engage with the subject matter appears across her teaching in the variety of assignments and experiential learning embedded throughout her courses.

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Teaching Political Science Archiving Sociology 59

Political Science Now

JANUARY 31, 2025

Local Transparency: Are Non-Partisan Mayors Making the Difference? By Gonalo Rodrigues Brs , University of Aveiro/CESAM , Soraia Pereira , University of Lisbon/CEAUL , and Kathleen M. Dowley , State University of New York at New Paltz The central question guiding this research is whether municipal councils governed by mayors with party membership differ significantly in their transparency from those governed by non-partisan mayors.

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