Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

For more information about our Multi-Day seminars and to see the schedule of events please click here. At the end of each course, teacher participants receive a letter of participation for 15 contact hours and a $600 stipend to help defray travel costs or other expenses. Have more questions? Click here.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Similarly, KQED’s Do Now and StudySync’s Blasts present current events and issues for students to encourage them to connect what they are learning in school to their lives beyond the classroom. YummyMath asks students to apply math to real-world situations involving food, sports, weather, movies and entertainment, and art.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 31, 2010

This past Friday an exciting event took place at my high school due to the efforts of Colleen Tambuscio, who is a fantastic Holocaust teacher. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the overseas trip to Germany, Czech Republic, and Poland. The nine educators who visited New Milford were part of the International Leadership Program of the U.S.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2021

But after seeing a flyer for Remake Learning Days, she and her daughter attended the event and began to discover a region’s worth of creative learning opportunities like it. The festival will look a bit different this year due to the pandemic—many of the events are virtual or will happen outdoors in a COVID-safe way. Attend an event.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 4, 2019

Where to find Remake Learning Days Across America events in your region. Remake Learning Days Across America (RLDAA) is a festival of experiential learning events for youth and their families in regions across the country. Events are hosted by a variety of organizations, such as schools, museums, libraries, community centers, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Originally designed as an academic conference to share research, the event brought together Florida K-12 and college teachers and students, national journalists and professionals from libraries and museums whose work focuses on history and civics. One of Robinson’s fellow panelists at the conference, Hayley McCulloch, a U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2021

She started planning scheduled events at her library for local child care centers, recommending books tailored to what children were learning in school and established a partnership with a local health center to create a mentoring program. Thomas-Burroughs came away with a host of ideas.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 17, 2025

This year, ACLS is partnering with 16 nonprofit organizations including National Public Housing Museum (IL), Disability Rights North Carolina (NC), Coalition for the Homeless (NY), and the Highlander Research and Education Center (TN). The full roster of partnering organizations and positions is available here.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This is a cross-posting from my dedicated blog which covers the events linked to my Vice Presidency of the Royal Geographical Society. RGS Winter Social Dec 5 on the theme of Geography and the Arts A quick reminder if you haven’t booked that the Eastern area RGS Winter Social event is coming up – on Thursday 5th December.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Option 1 Science: Design a new experiment to test a scientific hypothesis Science: Write a research paper on an environmental issue Math: Solve a set of problems and explain your solutions in a video tutorial Math: Develop a math game that helps others learn about a mathematical concept or process English : Write an essay analyzing the symbolism in (..)

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

The country’s next generation of leaders is pushing for racial equity, economic equality, disability justice and gender and sexual liberation; to succeed they will need the observational and analytical skills that can be developed by studying ideas, historical events, aesthetic works and cultural practices.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

Image credit: Hunan Museum Collection Database.) The Cultural Shift: How China Embraced the Domestic Cat The arrival of Felis catus was not merely a biological event; it marked a cultural shift in how Chinese society interacted with felines. Markings on the cat's fur suggest it's a leopard cat, not a domestic cat.

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Living Geography

MARCH 28, 2025

It's a light box with coloured panels offering an A-Z of Empire with some alternative facts and rhymes about places and events linked with colonialism. It would certainly make a talking point with groups.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On an early summer morning, I drove down 100 miles from my home in Altadena, California, to the Oceanside Museum of Art in San Diego County for a public discussion of the exhibition I curated entitled Alexa Vasquez: Undocumented Times/Queer Yearnings. For both of us, this was our first show in a museum. Credit: Oceanside Museum of Art.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2019

Remake Learning Days Across America (RLDAA) is an upcoming festival of experiential learning events designed for learners and their families and hosted by a variety of organizations, such as schools, museums, libraries, after school groups, and more. The events will be held in regions across the country this spring. (If

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

I remember when I was a little girl, you could still go to the museum and see the Native American remains before the governor ordered the museum to cover them up.” Perhaps there are some out there who might think public history is better left to local museums or genealogical societies alone.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In addition, there’s the growth in noncollegiate educational providers, including museums and industry, along with new higher education-business partnerships. Related: Urgency of getting people back to work gives new momentum to “microcredentials”.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The event is co-sponsored by the Georgia Association of Educators. Milo’s Museum By Zetta Elliott Illustrated by Purple Wong A story that introduces readers to the mis-representation (and absence) of people of color in museums and how to take action, in collaboration with family and friends.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2022

In places like San Diego and Santa Fe , school districts worked alongside youth programs and museums to offer experiences that felt and looked more like summer camp. After summer, campers stay connected through citywide year-round events.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Issiah, 9, completes a worksheet at the Read to Succeed summer program sponsored by the Mississippi Children’s Museum. That need for help is where organizations like the Mississippi Children’s Museum step in. Connie Williams-May, a Jackson teacher, works with students at a reading camp sponsored by the Mississippi Children’s Museum.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

This technology can also help educators support families, Kang added, by scanning publicly available community resources and identifying relevant library events, food banks, free clinics and the like.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I’m in a conference room in a Civil War museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin, attending a keynote panel about preventing violence in the lead-up to the U.S. This panel is part of a UR Action public event on July 28, 2024, called “Wisconsinites Uniting for a Safe Election Season.” the moderator asks. election in November.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 11, 2024

By examining variations in Neanderthal ancestry across different times and locations, they estimated the timing and duration of interbreeding events. For example, a modern human jaw from 37,000 to 42,000 years ago found in Romania contains Neanderthal DNA not present in other modern genomes, suggesting isolated interbreeding events.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

While enslaved Black people in far off places like Texas were often kept in the dark and fed a pro-slavery narrative of the events of the war and the nation, whether they received word of the order wasn’t so much the point. That’s another one of many examples.

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Sapiens

MARCH 5, 2024

This means the smallest amounts of more recent contamination from the burial environment, or from museum conservation materials, can make dating finds from these sites extremely challenging. As the authors of the Ranis study note, an intriguing twist to the tale is that recent genetic studies suggest the H.

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Pedagogy to Share

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Again, the event led her to learn more about her students enabling her to create a positive and safe environment for them. The day trip included the Arkadi Monastery, the Archeological Museum of Eleftherna, the Margarites potters’ village, and lunch at the house of Polios folk museum.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Easily access real-world learning materials like video tutorials, primary and secondary sources for research projects, museum collections, historical sites, and digital books, available online and often for free. Practice critical skills by using tools for organizing, researching, writing, publishing, creating, and more. Focus on key skills.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We’d examine historical images of Native American life from the Museum of Photographic Arts, other historical photos from the U.K. Washington University in St.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The presentation of the findings of archaeology to the public cannot avoid difficult political issues, and the museum curator and the popularizer today have responsibilities which some can be seen to have failed.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Knowledge organizations, ranging from libraries and museums to media companies and software makers, have entered the postsecondary marketplace, offering content, instruction and certification. Consider online instruction. At first, each new communications technology mimics its predecessor.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

By analyzing distinctive genetic markers, researchers quantified this percentage, shedding light on the enduring impact of interbreeding events in human evolutionary history. This enduring presence has been a source of fascination for anthropologists and geneticists alike.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

At Berea, the Appalachian program has held dinners and organized road trips to baseball games and museums, with varying levels of success. I’ve had events where literally one person showed up and I had to throw away a bunch of food,” Childers said. Attendance has improved since he made the events more casual. “We

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

William Taylor, co-author of the study and curator of archaeology at the CU Museum of Natural History, explained that the earliest definitive evidence of humans using horses for transport comes from the region near the Ural Mountains, dating back approximately 4,000 years. ” Can Hips Tell the Full Story?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

For some children, these events create toxic stress that adds to the anxieties of their everyday lives poverty, high density, food insecurity. Five-year-old Ellie sensed things were very wrong when schools closed, museums were no longer available and library story time was absent from her weekly routine.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2020

Many museums offer virtual tours. This is an event that’s changing at least daily, if not much more quickly than that. Several school districts, including the New York City Department of Education, have compiled activities and resources for children organized by grade level, including early childhood.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2018

Libraries sometimes provide free tech kits to check out, and if they don’t, the Institute of Museum and Library Services can provide a grant. Graves had Tweeted to the creator of a tech kit her kids were using, Makey Makey; he and his team “visited” her students via Skype. Local businesses can also be partners.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 19, 2025

Events that can open up again, turning back upon themselves to reveal the effects of their previous existence. Why would such a major arts event occur way back then in Louisville, Kentucky in the middle of our American continent? The Carriage House at the Howard Steamboat Museum Mansion was available. Steamboats!

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