Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2025

It is deeply rooted in our cultures, histories, geographies, and values. Encourage Musical Traditions : What can musical clues tell us about people and their environments? Ask your students to reflect on how music has been part of their family traditions. Music is everywhere!

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Teaching Primary Sources Heritage 52

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

MARCH 14, 2025

It claims to "Future Proof your Geography". Thanks to Bob Lang for the tipoff to AlphaGeo's data and mapping. The first of the resources can be found by clicking the EXPLORE button top right. This reveals some trends mapping. It includes a range of Risk Data. Feedback is welcome. The methodology is explained.

Geography 52

Geography Economics Tradition 52

Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

” Measuring Inequality in Clay and Stone To capture economic inequality across time and geography, the research team calculated the Gini coefficient —a statistical tool commonly used today to assess income distribution—for each of more than 1,000 archaeological settlements. These decisions mattered—and they still do.

Humanities 61

Humanities Archaeology Economics Museum 61

Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The 1st Lost In Time interdisciplinary intellectual history conference offers a platform for scholars from a variety of disciplines who are interested in concepts and their contexts, which have not traditionally predominated within intellectual history. The joy of intellectual history is its ability to retrieve long lost concepts from the past.

History 52

History Geography Tradition Education 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Students recently explored topics within “sustainable development” across physics, chemistry, geography and math. In geography, for example, they focused on the Arctic and global warming; in math they practiced statistics. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

Geography 128

Geography Project-Based Learning Tradition Humanities 128

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Their work engages the fields of human geography, biogeography, and critical agrarian studies. They will examine the relationship between Mvskoke farmers, traditional crops, and political sovereignty. They currently live and work as a visitor in Cukson on the unceded lands of the Tohono Oodham and Pascua Yaqui.

Geography 46

Geography Political Science Tradition Humanities 46

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. Elementary education has traditionally prioritized English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics, often sidelining social studies.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Primary Sources Civics Critical Thinking 52

Dr. Preece

JUNE 3, 2023

As a teacher in the early phase of your career, a lot of your professional development is naturally focused on your Geography and subject knowledge. In my experience, as you develop further through your career, the Geography-specific training and focus reduces in time. But what if you want to be focused on your Geography?

Geography 40

Geography Professional Development Leadership Tradition 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2024

Based on its demographic profile and on geography, it would seem safe to assume that Magnolia Middle School in Arkansas is among the scores of schools across the country suffering from a teacher shortage. The school predominantly serves Black and Latino students and those from low-income backgrounds. The nonprofit Forward Arkansas awarded $3.6

Middle School 125

Middle School Geography Tradition Teaching 125

Mr and Mrs Social Studies

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Simulations have the opportunity to bring a historical topic to life in a way that more traditional activities cannot. Simulations can also present information in a new way that can be more exciting and engaging than traditional teaching methods.

Artifacts 130

Artifacts Archaeology Historic Sites Geography 130

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

It’s geography; it’s history; it’s science; it’s cooking; it’s athletics, whatever that broad knowledge is about the world we live in. The lottery losers attended a variety of other schools, from traditional public schools to private schools to other charter schools. Some postponed starting kindergarten that year.

Charter School 145

Charter School Geography Public School Private School 145

ED Surge

JULY 9, 2024

The 10 future teachers we interviewed span different geographies, backgrounds, education experiences and motivations. Some took a traditional path, from high school straight to college and then the classroom. Each story — each person — is unique.

Geography 131

Geography Tutoring Elementary School Teaching 131

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

“This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” It’s a lot more involved than tacking on a project to a traditional unit of study by assigning students, for example, to make shoebox dioramas about a book they’ve read.

Project-Based Learning 111

Project-Based Learning Civics Historic Sites Social Studies 111

ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

A traditional four-year degree isn’t a financially feasible path to teaching for some, Lopez adds, while the state’s history of focusing on English-only education has shrunk the pool of Callifornians who are proficient in Spanish. Geography is another hardship for potential bilingual educators.

Geography 123

Geography Tradition Public School Teaching 123

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2017

Online communities of interest that supplement and augment more-traditional learning communities that are limited by geography and time. The expansion of digital and online (and often open access) information resources that increase the availability of higher and deeper learning opportunities.

Geography 94

Geography Project-Based Learning Economics Tradition 94

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

All three strategies are in large part a reproach to traditional higher education, which has often failed to provide the right programs to the people who increasingly need them. Some of these new efforts are dramatically different from traditional higher education experiences, and their focus is almost entirely on nontraditional students.

Tradition 131

Tradition High School Geography Civics 131

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 128

EdTech Junior High Geography Critical Thinking 128

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. This is an argument we hear time and time again.

Geography 85

Geography History Teaching Tradition 85

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Regardless of geography, nearly all school districts face chronic challenges finding teachers for math, science, special education, foreign languages and bilingual education. This is especially true in lower-income urban districts, where academic challenges are the greatest and most persistent.

K-12 113

K-12 Geography High School Economics 113

Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This week, I took a hard look at my teaching approach and realized I had been falling into a pattern of overloading my lessons with too much traditional content. This analysis helped students build context and draw connections between geography and colonization strategies. What geographic trait did these colonies have in common?

Geography 122

Geography Critical Thinking Tradition Middle School 122

ED Surge

MAY 6, 2022

Coursera, another giant online provider that works with traditional colleges, runs special rate promotions as well. In a crowded market, where the barrier of geography has been eliminated, providers of online education say they have been forced to spend more time, energy and money on marketing.

EdTech 111

EdTech Geography Library Economics 111

Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Role of Technology in Unveiling Ancient Secrets The sheer vastness of the Nazca Pampa, covering an area of about 400 square kilometers (154 square miles), presents significant challenges for traditional archaeological fieldwork. The plateau’s immense size, combined with centuries of weathering, has obscured many of the glyphs.

Archaeology 98

Archaeology Geography Humanities Cultures 98

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. How does the C3 Framework differ from traditional sets of standards, and what factors contributed to its widespread adoption in social studies education?

Social Studies 113

Social Studies Civics Pedagogy Geography 113

Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswego’s broader civic engagement efforts. King is an assistant professor of political science and geography at Old Dominion University. Dr. Athena M.

Civic Engagement 68

Civic Engagement Teaching Civics Political Science 68

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

Seventh-graders, along with science teacher Susan Dunning and geography teacher Megan Fuga, repeatedly gave the CMU students feedback on what worked and what didn’t. Dunning followed up with a traditional class discussion in which students were eager to share what they learned.

K-12 110

K-12 Geography World History Library 110

ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2022

Something that hinders us here in Caldwell County is the geography. You gain such valuable information and insight that you don't get through a traditional education program. So, we do try to look at equity. Certainly, we want to make sure that we're not advantaging one population or one area above another.

EdTech 101

EdTech Geography Learning Science Economics 101

Living Geography

JULY 1, 2024

At the Home of Geography' will share my work as the Vice President: Education of the Royal Geographical Society. All RGS members are invited to attend the Chair's opening plenary conversation on mapping geography , whether they are attending the conference or not. A cross posting from my new blog. 'At

Geography 40

Geography Archiving Tradition Research 40

Living Geography

APRIL 26, 2025

A previous issue provides some information on the decline of the traditional greengrocer. It was very much a traditional shop with weighing scales involving actual weights and a ready reckoner in price per pound, and a till that you had to press the amounts int o to ring up the amounts. very little plastic packaging back then.

Tradition 52

Tradition 52

ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

I do hope that things like the socioeconomic divide and geography divide can potentially be bridged in education because of some of these new technologies like VR,” he says. Still, Heiberger is optimistic that investments from Meta Immersive Learning show that the company also has an interest in doing good. “I

Educational Technology 145

Educational Technology Geography Education Tradition 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

It’s a challenge that administrators of the programs are just beginning to grapple with, and it is emerging as New Jersey faces a legal battle over segregation in its traditional public schools, which are among the most racially divided in the nation. These relationships are carefully nurtured by school staff — and aided by geography.

Education 110

Education High School Tradition Geography 110

Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

“Challenge Collaboratives” are a model of research-practice partnerships that engage educators and researchers across contexts and geographies to create outputs and outcomes that benefit schools nationwide. Traditional stories rely on 2D technologies like paper or images. Challenge Collaboratives: Next Gen R&D.

K-12 84

K-12 Geography Humanities Economics 84

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

communities of geography – Connected learning gallery walk – Interrogating our instruction: Are these connected lessons any good? traditional classroom ‘projects’ (how is PBL different from what we normally do in our classes?) – Interrogating our instruction: Are these elementary and middle school projects any good?

Leadership 107

Leadership Professional Development Geography Project-Based Learning 107

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Narrow nationalist parties of various sorts are on the rise around the world, and here in the United States religion, ethnicity, geography and politics increasingly define us. In Myanmar, the government has defined its Muslim minority as non-citizens. More than one million international students came to the U.S.

Geography 75

Geography Community Engagement Economics Government 75

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Despite the course’s critical importance, students in juvenile-justice facilities are 25 percentage points less likely to have access to Algebra 1 than their peers in traditional schools. And within juvenile-justice schools, Native American students are much less likely to have access to Algebra 1 than their peers.

Geography 74

Geography High School Tradition Cultures 74

Living Geography

APRIL 27, 2024

As part of a current writing project I am exploring some of the indigenous knowledge that we may look to introduce into the geography curriculum. I need to say at the beginning that I am not an expert in this field, and this post is a collation of other people's ideas and drawn from research and reading.

Geography 52

Geography Tradition Humanities Teaching 52

Society for Classical Studies

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

(The American Classical League) Queer Families in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Lambda Classical Caucus) Organization, Display, and Transfer of Knowledge (ASGLE and ASP Joint Panel) New Directions in Papyrology and Epigraphy in the 21st Century (ASGLE and ASP J… Re-evaluating Turnus in Vergil and the Vergilian Tradition (The Vergilian Socie… Medical (..)

Geography 52

Geography Pedagogy Tradition Cultures 52