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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Active History Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Cup Stacking Races – I review the Eras of US History with this game. 8th grade US History and 11th Grade US History are ready to print and play! Join The Active History Teacher Community! History STAAR Review appeared first on Active History Teacher. If not, we erase and discuss hwy. I’d love to hear!

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History Critical Thinking Middle School Social Studies 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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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2025

Here is why: In Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future , Jason Stanley exposes the ways authoritarian regimes manipulate historical narratives to maintain power. In fact, he references teachers using lessons from the Zinn Education Project as playing a key role in teaching peoples history, outside the textbook.

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History Historical Literacy Professional Development Economics 72

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.

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Civics History Middle School Humanities 246

Active History Teacher

MARCH 16, 2023

Have you ever assigned a decades project for your US History class? You’ve finished your US History curriculum and need something engaging for students to go as an end of the year project? It’s time to try a US History end of the year decades project! Join The Active History Teacher Community! Are you like me?

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History Oral History Middle School Cultures 195

Active History Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

I knew podcasts were a valuable tool for learning, but I needed to find just the right podcasts for my US History classroom. Here are my favorite (so far) podcasts to use in my US History classroom. American History Tellers. It’s definatly for ALL US History classes, not for just AP. Go subscribe for this one!

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History American History Middle School Social Studies 195

Active History Teacher

MARCH 15, 2023

Hexagonal Thinking is a game changing activity when it comes to US History Review time! If you are looking for a way to have your students make connections between concepts in US History and think critically in a hands-on, active way, it’s time to try Hexagonal Thinking! Join The Active History Teacher Community!

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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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History 202

World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

Here are some great StoryMaps from Esri's GIS Systems Their software includes story maps for over a dozen titles in World and US history, including the Age of Exploration, the First Crusade, Ancient Greece, the Black Death, the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire, Egyptian Funerary Practices, and many more.

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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 127

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.

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Cultures World History History 147

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.

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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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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

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American History History High School Teaching 140

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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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

But how should we approach this in the history classroom? As history teachers we often problematise controversial issues to ‘see both sides of an issue’. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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History Teaching Controversial Topics Tutoring 121

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

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.

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Cultures History Archiving Tradition 123

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

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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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

She planned to major in digital media arts, but before she could start, Delta State eliminated that major, along with 20 other degree programs , including history, English, chemistry and music. Azariah Journey is a second-year graduate student in history at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, which is cutting 20 degree programs. “Is

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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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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

By August 2024 she would complete her degree in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, giving her time for such an endeavor. MAHGs required history courses gave me the context I need for teaching government, Messick added. Youre talking with colleagues who face the same teaching challenges you do.

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Government Controversial Topics American History Civics 89

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 510

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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NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

history, Oklahoma History, U.S./Virginia Virginia History, AP Human Geography, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, and AP U.S. History for 8 years, a wealth of experience that informs the way he structures his programming at NCHE. I imagine the airport staff know him well by now. He taught U.S.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 27, 2024

“These results provide a clearer picture of how genetic and linguistic histories are intertwined,” says Dr. G. A Unified Genetic and Linguistic History This study combines cutting-edge genomics with strontium isotope analyses to unravel the complex history of Indo-European languages.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

They can also access and share histories for each student in order to get a full picture of that student’s health and wellbeing. I recently discovered a great new free tool from Impero Software called Impero back:drop that helps schools keep track of concerns.

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