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!

Geography 128

Geography Government History Cultures 128

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.

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

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!

Geography 59

Geography Global Connections Global Perspectives Civics 59

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.

Geography 52

Geography Teaching Pedagogy Library 52

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.

Geography 78

Geography History Teaching 78

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.

K-12 143

K-12 Ancestry Education Geography 143

Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The students had 5 minutes per slide to process the information and build their slides, using the provided keywords as a guide. I also had Claude add author names and context since the textbook didn’t bother to provide that crucial information. It was simple but effective, reinforcing both geography and historical knowledge.

Primary Sources 126

Primary Sources Geography History Lesson Plan 126

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.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Primary Sources Critical Thinking Professional Development 52

Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Frayer Model worked especially well for students to internalize the information and make it more manageable. They discovered how geography—land and sea routes—was integral to understanding exploration. This process helped them structure their knowledge and highlight the key points in a logical manner.

Primary Sources 128

Primary Sources Artifacts Geography Lesson Plan 128

Living Geography

DECEMBER 8, 2024

However, as global warming and record hot summers have sped up glacier loss, the melting ice has exposed an unprecedented, huge range of archaeological finds, Reitmaier says sometimes baring thousands of years of history, all at once. There is also a really useful update on the story of tzi and some recent discoveries.

Archaeology 52

Archaeology History 52

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Learners can more effectively assimilate and interrogate new concepts by connecting new information to prior knowledge, extending ideas beyond initial comprehension, and pinpointing areas of challenge or uncertainty. Extend: Encourage them to speculate on how a different outcome in history might have affected the present.

Geography 133

Geography Economics Critical Thinking Cultures 133

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It can bring traditional textbooks to life by adding interactive elements like videos, models or supplementary information to printed pages. Furthermore, it can transport students to different times and places, making history and geography lessons more immersive and educational.

EdTech 130

EdTech Junior High Geography Critical Thinking 130

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.”

Pedagogy 99

Pedagogy Anthropology Geography Private School 99

Anthropology for Beginners

JUNE 1, 2021

Eric Wolf (1982) laid the theoretical groundwork in his landmark history of how the movement of capital and labor has transformed global relations since the 1400s, dispelling the myth that globalization is a recent phenomenon.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Global Connections Geography Cultures 130

Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This meant that students weren’t overwhelmed with all the questions at once; they could focus on smaller chunks of information, which worked well for those needing more structured guidance. Each station had information about a different explorer, like Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan, and more.

Geography 122

Geography Critical Thinking Tradition Middle School 122

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

The results of that pilot will inform future purchasing decisions. For more information about the district, watch this short documentary: Changing a Rural Community’s Expectations Through 24/7 Learning. The district will include this information when making procurement decisions at the end of the school year.

Social Studies 86

Social Studies Middle School Geography Civics 86

Moler's Musing

AUGUST 28, 2024

A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing a 5-6 Day Unit on Native American History: A Collaborative Journey with AI Introduction: As educators, we constantly strive to create units that not only align with educational standards but also address the specific needs and skills of our students—especially those with IEPs.

American History 76

American History Geography Local History History 76

Living Geography

MARCH 21, 2024

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History blog. A new post on the OCR website from Professor Sylvia Knight. She talks about the connections between the proposed specification and climate literacy.

History 52

History 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Our nation’s founders understood that our great experiment in democracy would only succeed if Americans were prepared to actively contribute as informed citizens. The pressure of high-stakes testing has caused districts and schools to reduce or even eliminate coursework in civics, along with history, geography, science, arts, and fitness.

Civics 88

Civics Geography Public School Library 88

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. Instead, we created a framework that outlines these dimensions and indicators that states could use to inform their social studies standards.

Social Studies 115

Social Studies Civics Pedagogy Geography 115

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And universal assessments that test multilingual students in English can provide inaccurate information that teachers use to guide their practice or can wrongly indicate learning disabilities. Research shows that students who are classified as English language learners may be perceived by teachers as less capable than their non-ELL peers.

Geography 130

Geography World History Teaching Social Studies 130

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. But since this performance, the university has ended its music program.

Education 133

Education High School Government Economics 133

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

If some kids can go home and learn, discover and backfill information, while other kids’ learning stops at school, that’s a huge problem.”. Vince Scheivert, chief information officer for Albermarle County Schools, gives computer advice to Cassidy Watkins (left) and Madeline Rice, both Burley Middle School students.

Library 106

Library Middle School High School Government 106

ACRE

JUNE 19, 2023

The tour highlights the architecture and design of the home, information about some of the collected pieces (like a grand piano in the entry room and a large collection of hand-made quilts), and history of the Pfeiffer family and other Piggott residents who were living through the Great Depression era in Arkansas.

Museum 52

Museum K-12 Geography History 52

C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. My intent as an UGRR participant was to stretch my local history knowledge and to sharpen my historical-geographical thinking skills.

Cultures 52

Cultures Heritage Civic Engagement Civics 52

Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Cross posting from my 'At the Home of Geography' blog. This is important because their impacts are likely to be a partly a function of the deprivation history of an area (e.g., Details of two new update events have been added to the RGS website. Details here of the first one.

Geography 52

Geography Government History 52

Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Over time, these negotiations establish informal rules and set expectations about how interspecies interactions ought to play out. The conclusion highlights the broader implications for multispecies coexistence and environmental justice, emphasizing how these relationships inform our understanding of shared spaces, capacities, and activities.

Anthropology 40

Anthropology Humanities Cultures Geography 40

Social Studies Success

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Research has shown that students are more successful learning new content when the new information is tied to their background knowledge. Students need a way to organize the new information with what they already know. History, Geography, and International Baccalaureate History of the Americas.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Geography Advocacy Leadership 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This strategy encourages students to make connections between word meaning and sentence structure in informational texts. Ask them to consider the connections between the words and hypothesize what topic will be featured in the informational text. Possible Sentences Vocab Strategy Oct. Possible Sentences Vocab Strategy Oct.

Lesson Plan 52

Lesson Plan Professional Development Geography Civics 52

Living Geography

MARCH 13, 2025

The conservation work is set to start in July, and real-time data monitoring will be gathered in order to assess the new bracing and pruning regime across the seasons, with the information collected made available to help inform conservation efforts for other heritage trees.

Heritage 52

Heritage Community Engagement History 52

Geogramblings

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Among the initiatives in the strategy is a new GCSE qualification in Natural History to be introduced from 2025, which some teachers hope could be a focal point for teaching on climate change. Similar policy and curricula updates have been seen around the world. Up until 2022, when version 9.0

Education 52

Education Geography Civics Government 52

Geography Teacher Sharing

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The use of Google Earth has been great to understand the concepts of Space, Scale, Place and Environment in Geography Games in Voyager You can click on the wheel like icon to access Voyager. Tsunamis in History help students to see how large volcanic eruptions and underwater earthquakes can result in Tsunamis which impact on many regions.

Geography 52

Geography Cultures History Education 52

ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2022

The region’s geography and culture give the program key advantages when it comes to recruiting local students. She says employees in those fields often are speaking to patients only in Spanish, but then they must translate that information to either a doctor or a nurse, often in English. It’s a locally-driven need,” Petrov says.

K-12 104

K-12 Leadership Geography Cultures 104

TCI

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This hands-on approach ensures that students are not just absorbing information but actively applying and exploring it, making subjects like social studies more meaningful and memorable. By integrating activities that require movement and discussion, educators can foster critical thinking and deeper engagement with the material.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Teaching Professional Development Geography 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. He also wants more information from the state, which has not published the rules by which schools will be evaluated.

High School 75

High School Social Studies Leadership Tradition 75

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. And the reports the district files to the federal court and DOJ don’t include information on achievement. The tests measure student proficiency in reading and math as well as subject areas like history and biology for high school students.

Private School 111

Private School Elementary School Public School High School 111

Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. Peters agreed. Civic engagement involves more than just showing up to vote.

Civics 52

Civics Civic Engagement American History Government 52