Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 22, 2024
At the Early Neolithic site of Frydenlund, Denmark, archaeologists have unearthed clues that challenge traditional assumptions about how ancient farmers used grains. Despite uncovering grinding stones and over 5,000 charred cereal grains—barley, emmer wheat, and durum wheat—researchers have determined these tools were not employed to grind grain for bread.
Passion for Social Studies
DECEMBER 27, 2024
One topic that is always popular when teaching any government course is the presidency. Honestly, students are always so engaged to learn about the person who is the leader of the United States. They want to know everything they can about the role once the person officially enters the White House. So, teaching the executive branch is always fun and exciting!
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The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 22, 2024
More than 7 million students nationwide are entitled to special education services in K-12 schools. Services can include access to assistive technology, small-group instruction, extra time to take tests and a range of therapies. In most states, graduation rates for students with disabilities are lower than their peers and the quality of the education they receive varies greatly.
TeachThought
DECEMBER 27, 2024
As a strategy for the beginning of class, it's hard to beat surveys to answer the question, Whats this got to do with me?
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 27, 2024
The origins of Indo-European languages, which today stretch from Ireland to India, have long fascinated archaeologists and linguists. A new study 1 adds clarity to this enduring mystery by examining ancient genomes across the Mediterranean. Researchers have discovered a genetic divide during the Bronze Age, which correlates with linguistic patterns between Eastern and Western Indo-European populations.
Anthropology News
DECEMBER 27, 2024
As anthropologists, we study what we care about, making research an intimate undertaking. In the study of food, we even ingest and incorporate our subject matter into our very bodies. Here, Dr. Mecca Howe and Ariana Gunderson discuss the effects of our food research on our personal relationships with food, while considering the role of our eating choices within the food system and our research for the communities we study.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 25, 2024
Happy holidays, and to those of you who are celebrating today, Merry Christmas! I am so grateful for your readership this year. Reporting on early childhood is an immense privilege, and I appreciate the conversations and story ideas you send my way, as well as the many early educators, experts and parents who have welcomed me into their classrooms and lives.
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Political Science Now
DECEMBER 26, 2024
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.
Anthropology News
DECEMBER 27, 2024
While I was in Rajasthan, studying Indias traditional mud stove ( chulha in Hindi), women who use it, and those looking to improve it, I started a conversation about my research with a kitchen goods retailer in a small-town market. He nodded cheerfully and assured me, All women are free in India; you can talk with them freely. They have no work. Apparently, he didnt get the memo, for cookstove improvers commonly use the word drudgery to describe rural womens hard work to obtain fuelwood for dail
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 24, 2024
By the summer of 2018, it had been more than 30 years since Maronda Mims had started her college journey. Shed earned credits from North Carolina State University and three different community colleges in New York and New Jersey. Finally, in her 50s, she was about three semesters from graduating from Rutgers University with a degree in environmental science.
Anthroholic
DECEMBER 22, 2024
India, often referred to as a subcontinent, presents a fascinating canvas of unity and diversity. Encompassing an array of cultures, languages, traditions, and religions, the nation stands as a testimony to cohesiveness amid differences [1].
Political Science Now
DECEMBER 27, 2024
Teaching U.S. Constitutional Design: The Case of the Genovian Revolution By Ian G. Anson , University of Maryland Baltimore County In the modern American politics classroom, ideological and partisan conflict have the capacity to interfere with a healthy classroom environment. This problem is increasingly apparent when students engage questions at the heart of U.S.
Education Week - Social Studies
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Parsing historical documents can train students to be critical consumers of information in their own lives, experts say.
Living Geography
DECEMBER 25, 2024
A report in The Guardian shared information about the climate cost of our Christmas celebrations. It suggests that the average Briton causes over 20 times as much damage to the climate over Christmas as on a typical day. I'm not convinced I had quite that amount of uptick in my consumption.
Pedagogy and Formation
DECEMBER 23, 2024
I'm not sure what your childhood was like, but mine wasn't great. As we have reached the end of the academic year in schools and universities within Australia, I thought it might be useful to revisit the first question in my pedagogical framework in 'Pedagogy and Education for Life'. "Do I identify that which is valuable in each child?" If you have followed my work, you will have realized that my family life was problematic.
Political Science Now
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Pedagogy and the Textbook in Political Science By Noele Crossley , University College London How can textbooks be deployed in a way that boosts active learning and critical thinking? Noele Crossley draws on her experience of writing a textbook and then using it for teaching a political science undergraduate class on humanitarian protection. Crossley develops a theory of effective textbook use and identifies common features of textbooks that work well to promote student engagement and deep learni
World History Teachers Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2024
Teaching Reconstruction in US History? Here is a fascinating overview from the viewpoints of the many freed slaves who experienced it. Kidada Williams begins her book, "I Saw Death Coming" by reviewing developments immediately after the Civil War. Some of these important events include the passage of the 13th Amendment, the development of the Freedman's Bureau, the Southern Black Codes, sharecropping, and the Civil Rights Act.
Living Geography
DECEMBER 23, 2024
It's that time again. a week or so (unless something important happens) when I'll have a bit of a break from blogging, and focus on family, reading and thinking. Not sure we will see many landscapes like this over the next week. Winter Lane S. R. Badmin Source Here's a Christmas playlist to keep you going.
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 21, 2024
Modern humans carry a genetic record that connects us to ancient populations like Neanderthals and Denisovans. A new study, led by Luca Pagani and colleagues and published on the preprint server bioRxiv 1 , dives deeply into the genetic transitions that sculpted Homo sapiens. The research challenges long-standing assumptions about when and how key genomic features emerged, suggesting that many hallmarks of modern humans originated before our lineage split from archaic relatives.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Credit: Illustration by Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report, Photos via Getty Images I am always surprised when I comb through my page views at the end of each year. What struck a chord with readers in 2024 were stories about teacher pay, reading instruction and artificial intelligence. (Though they didnt rise to the threshold of my 10 most read stories, I would also recommend these three stories about troubles with tutoring , something called subitizing and the puzzle of chronic absenteeism.
Strange Maps
DECEMBER 26, 2024
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.
Living Geography
DECEMBER 21, 2024
An article in 'The Guardian' explores the recent surge in visitors to Greenland following the creation of new air routes into the country by the national carrier. It's another example of potential impacts of tourism. There are differing views on the impacts of tourism, in a place which has never had large numbers of people arriving.
Anthropology News
DECEMBER 27, 2024
It was a beautiful day in October 2022, and the leaves were turning vibrant shades of red and yellow. I was interviewing Yuna (all names in this article are pseudonyms), one of my interlocutors for my research on suicidalityincluding suicidal thoughts, plans, and attemptsamong young South Korean women in their twenties and thirties. Yuna, a 34-year-old woman, had been experiencing suicidal thoughts since she was around 13 and had attempted suicide multiple times since the age of 21.
Maitri Learning
DECEMBER 26, 2024
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.
Life and Landscapes
DECEMBER 26, 2024
[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!
Living Geography
DECEMBER 23, 2024
A cross posting from the blog which covers my work as the Vice President Education of the Royal Geographical Society. I'm now six months into my VP work, and it's been fascinating to see a whole other angle to the Society. As mentioned in a recent blog post, there is an opportunity for you to join the Education Committee in 2025. Put your name forward.
Anthropology News
DECEMBER 27, 2024
Bedsiders support under-staffed and under-resourced hospitals within power dynamics and policies that often do not reciprocate that support. Introduction You know what? When you have 44 patients, and you only have maybe two nurses on duty, you find that you cannot manage to do the basic things, the basic procedures. And so, the bedsiders now come in, like, to help out on those small, you know, procedures like bathing the patient, changing the linen, and sometimes even feeding.
Zinn Education Project
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Please read, sign , and share the letter below. You can also send a letter directly to the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS). NAIS must immediately correct the record and issue an apology to Dr. Suzanne Barakat and Prof. Ruha Benjamin. We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, call on the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) to immediately correct the record and issue a public apology to Dr.
Life and Landscapes
DECEMBER 23, 2024
The “Streets of Paris.” Written and played by Tommy Hynes. Written and sung Reggie Van Stockum. Part of the 2020 Shelby County Community Theatre’s “Home for the Holidays” video, produced and directed by David King and Clint Gill. (click the link or picture below to play my video!
Living Geography
DECEMBER 21, 2024
A cross-posting from my rather excellent Fieldnotes from Iceland blog. If you are going to Iceland with a school group (hopefully with Rayburn Tours) feel free to check out the blog in advance of your trip. For the Icelandic Review , the word of the year is Hraunkling , which means "lava cooling". This was used in 1973 of course when Eldfell erupted, but also became important to save the Blue Lagoon and Svartsengi plant from eruptions in November-December.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 23, 2024
This article includes references to self-harm, which some readers might find distressing. If you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of self-harm, help is available at the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by dialing 1-800-273-TALK(8255). More resources from the National Alliance on Mental Illness can be found at [link]. This story was produced by Chalkbeat and reprinted with permission.
Zinn Education Project
DECEMBER 27, 2024
No wonder the right is upset. More than 9,000 teachers signed up to access peoples history lessons in 2024 ,bringing our full registration at the Zinn Education Project to close to 170,000 teachers, with representation from every state. A recent American Historical Association study of teaching U.S. historyin secondary schools found that more than aquarter of the teachers surveyed use Zinn Education Project resources.That percentage is comparable to other organizations in their report with budge
Life and Landscapes
DECEMBER 21, 2024
Reggie Van Stockum with “Payne Hollow on the Ohio” founding board members David Wicks and Joe Wolek, interviewed in the Payne Hollow cabin of Harlan and Anna Hubbard in Trimble County, Kentucky on December 17, 2024. Just click the link or picture below: The Life and Landscapes Blog Site is at www.vanstockum.blog/lookin www.facebook.com/reggievanstockum www.instagram.com/reggievanstockum www.vimeo.com/reggievanstockum www.youtube.com @reggievanstockum1097 www.tiktok.
Living Geography
DECEMBER 21, 2024
Writing is a hypnotic act. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez As it's the first week of the Christmas holidays, I've been diving into a series I've been anticipating for a while. I've also been re-reading some of the reviews and the genesis of this adaptation of a book that Garcia-Marquez himself felt was unadaptable. He said that any film of the book would need to be a hundred years long to do it justice.
Living Geography
DECEMBER 23, 2024
'For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity Donald Trump There have been several occasions when the United States has considered the purchase of Greenland (assuming that it was ever for sale). This sort of scenario is also explored as part of the plot of 'America City', where the US looks to move north, and 'abandon' the southern states.
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