World History Teachers Blog
DECEMBER 14, 2024
Studying Greece? Here's a great interactive website about the Plague of Athens that provides context for Covid 19. And here is a hyperdoc that students can use as they explore the site. Follow an Athenian doctor, Nikos, as he tends to the sick and dying. Those infected by the endemic faced a horrible death. Some of the symptoms included intense fever and laceration of the bowels along with diarrhea.
NCHE
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Jen Jacobs on Multidimensionality, Memorability, and Making History Come Alive A member of our EPiC grant in Michigan, Jen Jacobs, shared her journey into teaching and the impact that journey has left on her since. Sometimes teaching isnt a first job or even a first calling. For Jen Jacobs, middle school teacher and a member of our EPiC grant, the calling of teaching came later in life.
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Passion for Social Studies
DECEMBER 15, 2024
Teachers are always looking for creative ways to freshen up their lessons. Since student needs are constantly changing and evolving, it is essential learning does as well. One tried and true method that offers amazing engagement and interest involves projects. These allow students to express their knowledge through tons of creative outlets. For some, this may mean making a presentation.
Strange Maps
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Country-level corruption is a tough KPI to quantify. So how do organizations like Transparency International and the World Bank do it? Not by comparing the fiscal, economic, and financial data of each country theyd only end up comparing (rotten) apples to (spoiled) oranges. Instead, to arrive at their Corruption Perceptions Index and Control of Corruption Indicator (respectively), they aggregate the opinions of experts in governance and corruption.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Country rankings of eighth graders on the 2023 TIMSS Click the list to expand. Standard errors are in parentheses. The larger the number, the more the actual average score in the countrys population could deviate from the sample of students who took the TIMSS assessment. Source: 2023 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) An abysmal showing by U.S. students on a recent international math test flabbergasted typically restrained education researchers.It looks like student ac
ED Surge
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Several times a week, teachers at Tiny Images, an early learning program in Fairmont, Nebraska, load up babies and toddlers into four- and six-seater carts and take the children on buggy rides through the building. They stop first to visit residents in the assisted living wing before continuing on to those in the nursing home. Just walking down the hall and seeing kids faces light up or residents faces light up it makes your whole day, says Kaci Brandt, director of Tiny Images, which is locate
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 17, 2024
At a site known as Charterhouse Warren in Somerset, England, archaeologists have uncovered a haunting scene from Britain’s Early Bronze Age. The remains of at least 37 individuals—men, women, and children—were found deep within a 15-meter shaft, their bones telling a story of violent death, butchery, and likely cannibalism. This new analysis, published in the journal Antiquity 1 , sheds unsettling light on the darker side of prehistoric human behavior.
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Zinn Education Project
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Every Zinn Education Project session not only impacts my teaching, but unravels the damage done by whitewashed histories. You give me more tools to educate my students and make me a better teacher today. Tara Micham, social studies teacher, Kansas City, Kansas Tara Micham is one of thousands of teachers learning the history missing from their own education in our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes.
ED Surge
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The results are in and theyre not great. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. International data on math and science released earlier this month gave the globe its first chance to compare progress since the pandemic. For the United States, it appears that the COVID-19 pandemic reversed more than 20 years of progress in math scores, based on results from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study.
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 19, 2024
For decades, archaeologists have described the architectural evolution of early human settlements as a transition from circular to rectangular structures—a shift thought to reflect deeper societal changes. But a new study led by Hadas Goldgeier, Dr. Antoine Muller, and Prof. Leore Grosman from the Hebrew University challenges this simplified narrative.
TeachThought
DECEMBER 18, 2024
CapCut's desktop video editor and its Background Removal Tool can change how creators approach Instagram Reels. Source The post Polish Your Instagram Reels With CapCut Background Removal Tool appeared first on TeachThought.
Digital Promise
DECEMBER 18, 2024
The post How Esports in Classrooms is Increasing Interest in STEM Activities and Encouraging Student Leadership appeared first on Digital Promise.
ED Surge
DECEMBER 18, 2024
One day, during a quiet afternoon in my classroom, a comment one of my colleagues said lingered in the air: Just remember your why. They said the comment with a smirk and an exaggerated shrug, their eyes rolling almost involuntarily. It registered as sarcasm, not encouragement, and I couldnt help but agree with the sentiment. Early in my career, I found solace in those words.
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Around 5,700 years ago, in the elite burial grounds of Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt, a striking practice was unfolding. Here, rulers and elites buried themselves alongside a menagerie of wild and exotic animals—crocodiles, elephants, and baboons among them. But recent archaeological findings reveal that even domestic livestock were transformed to project power and control.
Anthropology News
DECEMBER 18, 2024
What does it entail for care practices when non-affiliated strangers manage your property and make critical life-matter decisions on your behalf? Known as delegate children, these legal guardians fill gaps left by the state welfare system while navigating complex moral dilemmas. Performing Care as a Delegate Child It was a snowy day in late December 2022 when I accompanied Xiao Zhang on her visit to a nursing home in the Jing-Jin-Ji region of northern China.
Digital Promise
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The post How Educators Prepare Students for Real-World Learning appeared first on Digital Promise.
Living Geography
DECEMBER 17, 2024
The DfE has published the results of a survey of Climate Literacy amongst school leavers. Syliva Knight of the Royal Meteorological Society has responded on her LinkedIn account. She was one of the authors of the report: The DfE have just published the results of the 2023/ 2024 Climate Literacy Survey of school leavers (year 11 students), which builds on the initial survey we developed in 2022.
Society for Classical Studies
DECEMBER 17, 2024
CFP: Connections and Divisions: Landscape Features of the Ancient World kskordal Tue, 12/17/2024 - 08:11 Image Connections and Divisions: Landscape Features of the Ancient World The Classics Department at the CUNY Graduate Center invites scholars to submit proposals for papers that explore the complex interplay between geography and society in the ancient world.
Teaching American History
DECEMBER 17, 2024
For the past year, Teaching American Historys webinars have been about the presidential election. Last spring, we broke down the presidential election cycle. We spent this fall diving into the rhetorical traditions of American politics. We dont know about you guys, but we need a break from politics! So lets take a step back and look back at an entirely different aspect of US history.
Political Science Now
DECEMBER 20, 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 Sienna Nordquist , covers the new article by Sumitra Badrinathan, Simon Chauchard, and Niloufer Siddiqui, “Misinformation and Support for Vigilantism: An Experiment in India and Pakistan” In divided societies, religious and ethnic differences can become a lightning rod for conflict and violence.
Digital Promise
DECEMBER 16, 2024
The post Building Career-Ready Skills: Insights from our 2024 Micro-Credential Pilot appeared first on Digital Promise.
Living Geography
DECEMBER 18, 2024
The Sounding the Siren campaign looks at the role of aid workers and the growing rate of disasters happening globally as the weather becomes more extreme. This new study brings together the experiences of aid workers to present findings and recommendations for governments, aid and development organisations and concerned citizens. Disasters have become more widespread and this site explores some of the stories linked with these disasters.
ASHP CML
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Its a season of change: a new year and a new presidential administration; changes in political power throughout the world; climate change; technological changes, and more. The ASHP staff knows that such changes dont emerge overnight; as we look backward and ahead, we remain committed to making our work as history educators help generate greater understanding of the current historical moment.
Political Science Now
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Making Agreements With Friends: Using an Analogy to Teach Informal Agreements and Bargaining in International Relations Courses By Zachary Houser , Boise State University Making Agreements with Friends is an engaging problem-based learning activity that uses a structured analogy, decidingwhetheryou should spot (lend) members of a fictional friend group money to pay for their pub cover, to help international relations students learn about informal agreements, bargaining, and reputation costs.
Digital Promise
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Hear how the League of Innovative Students made strides in 2024 toward shaping educational experiences for their peers and driving systemic change.
Living Geography
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Crisps are popular snacks, and we eat a lot of them. Although they're not the best thing for us health wise. This video follows the story of a brand called Lays, from the potato to the pack. I am looking to update my Year 7 'Food for Thought' scheme of work to add in more references to potatoes, and this is one option. We already have a video about their journey to Scottish fish and chip shops and this will be a nice companion piece.
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 16, 2024
In a remarkable feat of ancient DNA analysis, researchers have reconstructed the genetic story of a baby boy who lived over 17,000 years ago in Ice Age Europe. The findings, published in Nature Communications 1 , reveal a wealth of information about the boy's ancestry, physical traits, health, and the environment in which he lived, offering a rare glimpse into the lives of prehistoric humans.
Political Science Now
DECEMBER 18, 2024
An Examination of the Transformative Effect of Learning by Teaching Method in Human Rights Education By Defne Gnay , and Zahide Melis zn llolu , Yaar University, This study aims to examine the impact of participatory methodologies employed in human rights education on enhancing individuals learning and awareness regarding human rights issues. We employ the pedagogical technique of learning by teaching, grounded in the principle that teaching is an effective means of learning.
Digital Promise
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The post Ypsilanti Community High School Recognized as HP AI Spotlight School, with New State-of-the-Art Learning Studio appeared first on Digital Promise.
Living Geography
DECEMBER 16, 2024
From 2009 - when Michael Palin took over as RGS President. "For some reason, geography is not seen as a popular subject in school. It's seen as very unglamorous. Yet when I was at school, I can remember geography offering me the chance to get out and go on field trips and go on walks, and I loved maps, I loved atlases, I loved learning about other countries and places where things were different from our own and that's all covered by geography.
Society for Classical Studies
DECEMBER 16, 2024
2024 Erich S. Gruen Prize kskordal Mon, 12/16/2024 - 08:56 Image In 2024, the fifth year of the SCS Erich S. Gruen Prize , the selection committee received submissions from graduate students across North America who present exciting new approaches to race, ethnicity, and cultural exchange as they pertain to the ancient Mediterranean. The committee was impressed by the papers quality and wide range of disciplinary perspectives, methodologies, types of evidence, and time periods.
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 15, 2024
Neanderthals have long fascinated researchers for their unique adaptations to Ice Age climates and challenging environments. A new study in the Journal of Human Evolution 1 presents a virtual reconstruction of the Shanidar 3 ribcage, revealing distinct physiological traits that shaped their lives. The results not only affirm the "bell-shaped" thorax characteristic of Neanderthals but also challenge assumptions about their cold-adapted body plan.
Digital Promise
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Three learners in the League of Innovative Students share reflections and learnings from their research to understand causes of education-related challenges in their communities.
Living Geography
DECEMBER 16, 2024
What are climate change allowances? Climate change allowances are predictions of anticipated change for: peak river flow peak rainfall intensity sea level rise offshore wind speed extreme wave height To increase resilience to flooding and coastal change, allowances for climate change should be made in any flood risk assessments. There are allowances for different climate scenarios over different epochs, or periods of time, over the coming century.
Institute for Citizens & Scholars
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Citizens & Scholars Youth Civic Solutions Competition winners shared their innovative ideas for civic engagement at the 2024 National Conference on Citizenship.
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 14, 2024
Unearthing a Forgotten Past An interdisciplinary team led by Johannes Müller of Kiel University has provided a rare glimpse into the lives of Neolithic people who lived over 5,600 years ago near Kosenivka, Ukraine. The study, published in PLOS ONE 1 on December 11, 2024, uses bioarchaeological analyses to shed light on the diets, deaths, and cultural practices of this enigmatic population, linked to the Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypilla culture.
Digital Promise
DECEMBER 17, 2024
The post Leaders of Today: Celebrating the Impact of Youth-Led Sustainability Projects appeared first on Digital Promise.
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