Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

When MySpace lost 50 million songs during a server migration , it wasnt just a glitchit was a reshaping of independent music history, determined by infrastructure choices rather than cultural value. Whether shifting across geographies, languages, or systems, migration determines what knowledge endures and what is left behind.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Soii Havzak Rockshelter: Geography and Significance Soii Havzak is uniquely situated to shed light on the Zeravshan Valley’s ancient role as a crossroads. 1 Zaidner, Y., & Kurbanov, S.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. I was always interested in history. history class and had always enjoyed my social studies classes. But I did enjoy teaching.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

For much of history, the rise of inequality has been treated like gravity: inevitable, natural, and inescapable. From the sprawling villas of Roman elites to the thatched huts of the poor in medieval Europe, textbook history often presents wealth disparity as a consequence of human progress. Three excavated Classic period (ca.

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Living Geography

MARCH 21, 2025

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History blog. I started this when the new specification was first announced. I've been adding posts since, and there are now over 400, so I've got plenty of materials to help write some support resources once a draft specification emerges. It's taken a while, but there was some news from Parliament today.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 11, 2025

We explore the history and evolution of this tech with one of its pioneers, in the latest instalment of our oral history project. He is clear that "geography is everything!" GIS digitises geography and puts it into a geographical frame. GIS digitises geography and puts it into a geographical frame.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 14, 2024

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

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 8, 2025

Enter the Annotated Mapa strategy that helps students apply history to geography the way they would annotate a text. Annotated Maps + Dice Challenge On Wednesday, students took an initial Quizizz on how the U.S. acquired each territory. The class average across all periods was 49%clearly, they needed more time with the content.

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Geography Education

MAY 14, 2024

SOURCE: ESRI ESRI has produced GeoInquires for many diverse subjects , from American Literature to World History. Not surprisingly, I’m especially interested in the AP Human Geography collection with 15 mapping activities that align with content and skills of the course.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

Over time, I pieced together the idea that my students would benefit most from a teaching model that emphasized shared readings of challenging works of literature; memorization of poetry; explicit grammar instruction; contextual knowledge, including history; and teacher direction — not time practicing skills.

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Living Geography

MARCH 16, 2025

During the tour we will delve into the stories, contexts, and interpretations of the objects on display throughout Lowther Lodge, the home of Geography on Monday 17 March at 2.30pm and 3:30pm. Every week National Lottery players raise over 30 million for good cause projects, like ours.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Calling for more civics and history instruction is nothing new. A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The speaker was Tim Marshall - best-selling author of 'Prisoners of Geography' - and a fellow Leeds United fan. He told us that 'Prisoners of Geography' had now passed the three million mark in terms of sales. The final Monday night lecture for this term was held at the RGS on Monday night this week.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A cross posting from my GCSE Natural History blog - which is now closing in on 400 posts since it was first started - when it looked like we might actually get a new qualification option.

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Geography Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

It gets users to analyze the cultural and physical landscapes, relate a stimulus to other places on Earth, use maps at a variety of scales, etc. Guess Where You Are is an alternative to Geogussr without all the bells and whistles, but it also has no time restrictions w But I’m also a history buff and I love a good twist on a geographic game.

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TCI

MARCH 1, 2024

Geography education plays a pivotal role in cultivating global awareness and critical thinking. At TCI, we believe that geography class should be an immersive experience where students see the world through a geographer’s eyes. The much-loved Geography Alive! With Geography Alive!

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Living Geography

MAY 5, 2024

Earlier this week I spent an interesting day in Cambridge discussing the GCSE Natural History as a member of OCR's Consultative Forum. We had an update on the context within which the new specification will be appearing - this was similar to the OCR Geography Forum meeting that I'd attended the month before.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Her research and teaching interests include American political development, political history, voting and elections, state politics, political geography, sovereignty, Native American political rights, political parties, partisanship, and political institutions. She specializes in American politics.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

When students engage with history, geography, and civics, they develop the ability to analyze texts, draw connections between concepts, and retain new information more effectively. Adopt Knowledge-Building Curricula: Utilize high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) that embed social studies content within reading programs.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The latest book by geography teacher Richard Bustin was published by Crown House Publishing in October 2024. It embraces in how geography is understood and expressed in national school standards. The capabilities approach helps geography educators everywhere to articulate the importance of children learning how to think geographically.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The University of Alaska system has scaled back more than 40 academic programs , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources, sociology, hospitality administration and theater. Subjects such as history teach about the past as a lens into the present, she said.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

Leopard cats, roughly the size of modern house cats, are adaptable predators with a long history of interaction with human societies. 2025), continue to refine our understanding of how humans and felines have interacted across time and geography. Science Advances , 7(0221). 1 Han, Y., Doherty, S., Jamieson, A. Martins, S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

“There is a digital divide within areas that are geographically pretty proximate and they have real potential impacts for student’s geography of opportunity,” Skinner said. It’s important for us in education research to look at that history,” Skinner said.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Instead, I wanted them to understand the colony’s region, its geography, and its economy. Frayer Model Activity Next, I handed out paper Frayer models where students wrote a colony name in the middle and added information about its government, geography, economy, and religion. It even provided a knowledge base for each founder!

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

However, studies show that exposure to content-rich subjects like history, geography, and science strengthens reading comprehension, vocabulary, and critical thinking skillsessential components of long-term literacy success.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

Along with some like-minded colleagues, she quickly formed an ad-hoc research group, “ Suddenly Distant ,” to capture this moment in history. As the pandemic dragged on, Bartlett decided to turn the short-term project into a long-term survey and oral history of what was happening in classrooms around the country. teaching work force.

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Living Geography

APRIL 9, 2024

This was awarded an RGS-IBG Innovative Geography Teaching Grant in 2003-4. I also wrote an article for Teaching Geography about the project, which was published in the Autumn 2004 issue. I had a blog for my Presidential year called Quotidian Geographies, and there are over 500 books in my GeoLibrary.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

No matter whether elementary teachers return to physical or virtual classrooms, this will be a year for the history books. While I share their nostalgia for a time in the history of public education when that might have been true, the damning performance by the nation’s 12th graders in U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Despite hailing from vastly different geographies and circumstances, the dozens of educators we talked with shared that they often struggled in their own school communities with feeling both hyper-visible and invisible as Asian Americans. A participant at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas on May 30, 2020. on March 21, 2021.

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Students of History

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

They took a long while to create, but I now have packets for every unit in Civics/Government , World History , and US History. Each one features an introductory reading, standards-based Essential Questions to guide the unit, and then 9 pages dedicated to vocabulary, geography, people, timelines, key concepts, and image analysis.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JULY 19, 2024

There is a shortage of physics, maths, geography teachers (add or delete as appropriate) therefore we need to recognise the market forces at work that draw them away from choosing teaching as a career. In my role as Co-Chair of HTEN (the History Teacher Educators Network) I have heard this story time and time again.

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Education Week - Social Studies

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The sources students consult, the kinds of arguments they make, differ from history to economics to geography.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Tracing Ancient Interactions: The Role of Geography Scientists have examined the geographical distribution of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals in Southwest Asia and Southeast Europe during the Late Pleistocene. New evidence 1 now suggests a specific geographic location where these two species met and interbred: the Zagros Mountains.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Using a Mnemonic Device The map we used came from Howson History, and it featured a helpful mnemonic device for remembering the colonial regions. It was simple but effective, reinforcing both geography and historical knowledge. I scrapped the Iron Chef and Sketch and Tell, deciding to focus solely on the map and some Wordwall practice.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Adults in the audience responded with knowing and affirming sounds, signaling their recognition of the persistent apartheid geography that maintains racialized access to spaces and opportunities in their city. Driven by this critique, he returned to Launch as a history teacher with aims to help “decolonize classrooms.”

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