A Lesson Plan for Teachers

APRIL 17, 2024

Organizing to Save You Time If you teach World History, I can imagine you are simply tired. In this post, you will find links to everything I can think you may need for teaching World History. Over time, I plan to add […] The post Everything You Need to Teach World History Easily appeared first on A Lesson Plan for Teachers.

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World History History Teaching Lesson Plan 242

Active History Teacher

JULY 13, 2024

US History vocabulary review can be fun and student centered! Using the game Envelope Races, students can review US History vocabulary in a competitive way. Do your students struggle with US History vocabulary? The language of teenagers is NOT the language of history. Looking for other US History Review Games?

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History Primary Sources American History Teaching 195

Anthropology.net

JANUARY 8, 2025

A recent study sheds new light on its human history, highlighting the deep impact of migrations from New Guinea into this region approximately 3,500 years ago. The region, home to immense linguistic and genetic diversity, has often puzzled researchers seeking to untangle its complex history. A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia."

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History Ancestry Archaeology Geography 98

Anthropology.net

MARCH 6, 2025

A Missing Chapter in Mesopotamian History Most of what we know about Mesopotamian irrigation comes from the Parthian and Sasanian periods, roughly a thousand years after the newly discovered Eridu canals were in use. This is a rare case where nature has preserved a vital piece of human history. Water History, 7 , 397–418.

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History Archaeology Humanities Government 88

NCHE

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Jen Jacobs on Multidimensionality, Memorability, and Making History Come Alive A member of our EPiC grant in Michigan, Jen Jacobs, shared her journey into teaching and the impact that journey has left on her since. To teach history effectively, Jen incorporates intrigue, drama, and humanity into her lessons.

Civics 246

Civics History Middle School Humanities 246

Political Science Now

APRIL 15, 2025

My History or Our History? In an online experiment in India ( ), we randomly assign participants exercises sourced from official state textbooks containing either an exclusive, inclusive, or a neutral representation of history. American Political Science Review The post My History or Our History?

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History Political Science Leadership 52

NCHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Im reaching out today as a fellow educator and historian, and as Executive Director of the National Council for History Education, to affirm your professionalism and the importance of your role as history educators. As you know, history is not the past its the study of the past. Hello teachers. photographer.

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Primary Sources History Education History Library 230

Teaching American History

APRIL 1, 2025

In honor of womens history month, we bring you a reading selection that highlights the upheaval American society experienced in the 1920s as regards gender roles. Read more Want more womens history materials? It was not even decent to concede that women were bipeds.

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History American History Humanities Teaching 64

Anthropology.net

APRIL 4, 2025

link] — Explores cultural phylogenetics through folk narratives, analogous to the methods applied to knot histories. The ties that bind: Computational, cross-cultural analyses of knots reveal their cultural evolutionary history and significance. The phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood. PLOS ONE , 8(11), e78871. Eronen, J.

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Humanities History Archaeology Ancestry 72

World History Teachers Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Ten historians give a brief history of the war through global lenses in a video that takes the viewer through the war. The Guardian has a terrific interactive site about the global nature of World War I. It has interactive maps, original news reports, and videos exploring the war and its effects from many perspectives.

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World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

This MIT site " Visualizing Cultures ," is a great resource for World History and AP World when studying imperialism. The site includes outstanding visual narratives on which curriculum units are based. Most of the curriculum units ask students to analyze various images.

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Cultures World History History 192

Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As part of an ongoing series examining Contributions of Scholars of Color , the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Department conducted a a second set of oral history interviews during the 2024 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting held in Los Angeles, California. Watch the full interview series on YouTube.

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Oral History History Political Science Museum 53

Zinn Education Project

APRIL 6, 2025

Make visible the history that we are defending the right to teach with mini-lessons. Mini-lessons also serve as an affirmation that we defy censorship by teaching this “banned history” in a public space. history who have resisted injustice and to learn from the range of strategies they have used.

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History Critical Thinking Tradition Teaching 52

Women's History Network

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

For thirty years, the Womens History Network (WHN) have been publishing journal articles and blogs on myriad subjects about women. We have constructed this reading list for LGBTQ+ History Month, and beyond, to make visibility of our publications easier. Clicking on the title will link you to the relevant page.

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History 134

Passion for Social Studies

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Students will dive into our rich history while building empathy and understanding among themselves. Add to cart United States History Course (gilded to present) $ 100.00 Add to cart Sign up for fantastic history FREEBIES below! Thankfully, the Equal Rights Project is the perfect way to teach this!

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Social Justice Social Studies Critical Thinking History 130

World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Two historians, Mike Duncan, a revolutionary history podcaster, and David A. Bell, a history professor at Princeton, took Noonan to task on Twitter for not knowing her history. That's what columnist Peggy Noonan suggested in an essay for the Wall Street Journal.

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History Teaching 147

World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

The second resource is a podcast that reviews the participation of African colonial troops in the war and comes from historian Michelle Moyd, Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. Here is a chart that shows the number of Chinese workers imported by France, Britain, and Russia.

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Government History 183

Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 11, 2025

Students learn about such a wide range of politics in high school history classes. For example, teaching Nixon is a crucial aspect of American history due to his leadership, insights, and evolution of politics. Teaching Nixon helps students gain incredible insight into American history, government , and political processes.

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Teaching Civic Engagement Civics Lesson Plan 130

Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The United States has experienced so many dynamic changes throughout its rich history. So, it shows that while it is a good term to generalize a scattered era of history, it has flaws. One of the most transformative periods was the Progressive Era, from the 1890s to the 1920s.

Teaching 130

Teaching Primary Sources Critical Thinking History 130

World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

These threads, which I have saved as pdfs, could work well in a unit on Islam in World History. They include threads about Islamic calligraphy, Islamic gardens, unique mosques in Africa, the dome interiors of mosques worldwide, and the use of geometric patterns in Islamic art.

Cultures 147

Cultures World History History 147

Sapiens

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Spain has a deep and far-reaching colonial history, particularly in Latin America. The claim that Spain’s imperialism isn’t true colonization reflects a reluctance to confront the darker aspects of the country’s history, which involved widespread exploitation, violence, and cultural erasure across continents.

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Museum Archaeology Artifacts Heritage 123

Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Archaeological evidence and Oral Histories show people in what is today Ghana lived sustainably for millennia—until European colonial powers and the widespread trade of enslaved people changed everything. While Logan’s work revealed the plants Banda residents ate, other research reconstructed the region’s broader environmental history.

Oral History 139

Oral History Archaeology Heritage History 139

Active History Teacher

JULY 18, 2024

But if you know me, you know I want every US History timeline activity to be fun and interactive! They asked to do it again the day before we took our US History End of Course exam. appeared first on Active History Teacher. Making a timeline doesn't work. The skill of sequencing can be tough for many students!

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Critical Thinking History Teaching 300

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Veteran multimedia producer and professor Lynn Rogoff has long experimented with ways to bring history alive for young people. And some educators worry that as more companies offer chatbot stand-ins for historical figures, students will spend less time diving into the raw materials of history themselves to draw their own conclusions. “I

American History 138

American History History High School Teaching 138

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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History Government 52

Women's History Network

JANUARY 23, 2025

First Call for Papers Womens History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections.

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Archiving Museum Library History 140

World History Teachers Blog

MARCH 2, 2025

The database is divided into four themes: Key developments in world history Key development in modern British empire history Anglo-American relations in the 20th century Churchill: Discussion, debate, and controversy I might assign different key questions about World War II to students and have them create a short presentation.

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Archiving Primary Sources World History History 126

NCHE

APRIL 1, 2025

The National Council for History Education (NCHE) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program (TPS). As of February 2025, NCHE serves as the director of one of the Librarys newest regional granting entities, the Great Plains Region.

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Library Primary Sources Museum Historic Sites 130

Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Vietnam War was a pivotal event in world history. Thankfully, the Vietnam War Lesson and Recent US History Unit are ready to make learning meaningful and planning a breeze! Vietnam to Present US History Test Honestly, making an assessment is tough! Recent US History Unit Planning an entire unit is exhausting.

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Lesson Plan History Psychology World History 130

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2021

Every problem throughout history that has been solved with an innovative solution began with some sort of question that probably morphed over time as an inquiry-based approach was applied. The overall goal is to work from the base level 4 as this is where authentic inquiry resides.

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History Education 545

Sapiens

MARCH 11, 2025

Partway through our conversation on Indigenous history, music, and language, Calfunao lit up when he discovered that we were both metalheads. Early Patagonian metal bands such as Aonikenk, Razzia, and Werken established the importance of Indigenous peoples to Patagonian history and culture in their music.

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Heritage Cultures History Government 128

Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2025

Activity #2 – Allow Students to Read Lesser-Known History Stories The personal stories behind famous leaders and events make history come to life. We can orally share history stories with our students, but we can also provide stories as enrichment activities for early finishers.

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Social Studies Classroom Management Museum History 130

NCHE

MARCH 25, 2024

At NCHE conferences , for example, a glance at the program reveals that most sessions focus on an important moment or a major problem in history and offer a strategy to present it in a new way. This writing tends to be engaging, brief, and pointed, relating history to current concerns, and spanning political perspectives.

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K-12 Primary Sources American History Archiving 312

Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

My task set me on a path to understanding the history and craft of counting languages. Take, for example, the 1986 Men’s FIFA World Cup in Mexico, which featured the most amazing goal in the history of football (or “soccer,” depending on which variety of English you speak). But even this gets convoluted.

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History Cultures Heritage Government 134

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Through it all, educators have risen to the occasion and have innovated their practice at a more frequent pace than any time in history. As I continue to work with districts and schools on an on-going basis, I try my best to help them overcome continuous challenges and frustrations. I am here to tell you that you are not alone.

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History Education 516

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Roti Collective, a community-based research project, explores the layered histories that brought a flatbread from the Indian subcontinent around the world. In Calcutta on Your Plate , her book on Bengali cuisine and gastronomic history, she points out the absence of roti in Bengali meals until the mid-20th century. where I teach.

Cultures 123

Cultures History Tradition Archiving 123

Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2025

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesias Riau Archipelago in search of Homo erectus remains, but uncovers how environmental devastation has erased much of the regions history. FROM THE AIR, endless rows of palm trees swallowed the topography as we flew over Bintan Island in the South China Sea.

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Archaeology Geography History Humanities 137