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10 Travel Themed Classroom Decor Ideas

Mr and Mrs Social Studies

Whatever version you decide to use, each one comes with a title page and four rule cards covering the following: Be Prepared Be Punctual Be Present Be Polite Around the World Skyline Posters If you are a world history or social studies teacher, these world skyline posters can help transform your walls or bulletin boards!

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me.

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Unearthing the Origins of Plantation Slavery on São Tomé

Sapiens

São Tomé’s role in this devastating and transformational history is largely unknown—some people have never heard of the tiny nation. Our team aims to illuminate the island’s central and brutal place in world history. Furthermore, the insidious mindset of colonialism has influenced what is considered “heritage.”

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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

The Hechinger Report

To get a sense of how students in New York feel about these changes, The Hechinger Report spoke with six public school students, representing four of the city’s five boroughs, whose heritage is Asian American or Pacific Islander. history curriculum will help Asian American students find strength within their own dual identities.

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The Importance of Research in Social Studies Classrooms

Teaching American History

In fleeing the dustbowl conditions of the Midwest, the migrants had “left behind many of their material possessions,” Czarnecki writes, but the folklore collectors “reasoned that they brought instead an intangible cultural heritage in their stories and songs.” I was raring to go!

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Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict

Sapiens

Engage these poets as they speak of their worlds, histories, and communities. They also warn of passivity and the inhumanity of linear narratives and narrow lenses in the face of violence. Some even forge solidarities across borders and differences that may nourish peace.