Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 23, 2019

The video made me laugh and think about how much the teacher of those students must have inspired a love of history! So, the history meme project was born in my classroom. What are my rules for making history memes? It’s seriously easy to make history memes. Why do I ask my students to create history memes?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. I was always interested in history. history class and had always enjoyed my social studies classes. This month, we are featuring Caleb Brown.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 4, 2024

Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History: Call for Fellows kskordal Mon, 03/04/2024 - 13:37 Image The Future of the Past Lab and the Center for Premodern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities are excited to announce a three-year series of visiting fellowships titled “Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History.”

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Library of Congress. Library of Congress. Not only is Bates important to the history of Central High’s integration, she is also a significant figure in the national Civil Rights Movement. In his recent history of the modern Civil Rights Movement, historian Thomas E. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers. appeared first on Teaching American History. Free professional development. What more could you ask for? See a sample itinerary here.

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TeachThought

APRIL 28, 2024

” – Harper Lee “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.” ” – Lloyd Alexander “The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”

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ASHP CML

JANUARY 12, 2023

Making Queer History Public Episode 1: LGBTQ+ Archives with Steven G. Fullwood Thursday, January 12, 2023 - 10:50 In the first episode of Making Queer History Public, we talk with archivist, writer, and documentarian, Steven G. Follow Making Queer History Public on Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, or Google Play.

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Little wonder that Dunn’s course in this year’s summer residential Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, “From Courthouse to Schoolhouse,” drew teachers from urban and rural areas across the country. In its opinion, the court ruled that a school board could not ban books it deemed offensive from school libraries.

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Education Library American History Education Policy 89

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Over the course of the semester-long class, students research their own family histories, tracing one line back as far as they can through birth, death and marriage records, Census records, and church records, primarily. Brunelle taught the students how to do genealogy research online, in libraries and at the local city hall.

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Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

The Digital Promise maker learning team spent some time in Greer, South Carolina this winter observing and filming the Riverside Middle School Library Club students as they worked to design solutions to problems they identified in their community. We are excited to share their story as the second in our series of Maker Promise videos.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 16, 2024

In this election year, the Zinn Education Project developed an interactive Teach Truth pop-up display to raise awareness about the growing threat of anti-history education laws and book bans. The American Library Association, a campaign cosponsor, provided Free People Read Freely bookmarks. Washington, D.C.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 27, 2022

Click on the history volume and you can learn the history of empire from Ghana to the Sultanate of Massina. Learn about the Mosque of Djenne here and its importance as a library for manuscripts. In another section, you can click on the different topics that the manuscripts cover and read a summary of what they say.

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HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 27, 2023

I thought it would be too slow and boring for my 10th-grade World History students. I hope it is well-stocked in school libraries. I remember skimming it in Barnes and Noble and putting it down because it starts off with a romantic triangle between Aphrodite, Ares, and Hephaestus in a New York City hotel suite in 1942. I was wrong.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 30, 2024

history designed to maintain white supremacy that receive little attention in corporate curricula. The Zinn Education Project provides free resources to teach outside the textbook about the Tulsa Massacre and the continuing history of institutionalized racism and displacement. This is one of countless massacres in U.S. Learn more.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Bush Presidential Library & Museum in College Station, TX. Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers. Free professional development. What more could you ask for? Click here.

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Since 2017, NCHE has offered professional learning colloquia that focus on “Technology’s Impact in American History (TIAH).” Given the Library of Congress’s mission to connect its archives with others across the nation, we were excited to add another dimension to the current Library of Congress resources for teachers.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

Source: Library of Congress Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom in the United States. African American History Monument by Ed Dwight, State Capitol Grounds, Columbia, South Carolina. Dancer at Juneteenth celebration in Washington, D.C. Photo by Carol M.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

I determined their independent reading levels and organized my classroom library according to reading difficulty. There is evidence that teaching such skills has some benefit, but what students really need in order to read with understanding is knowledge about history, geography, science, music, the arts and the world more broadly.

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History Tech

MARCH 15, 2023

I’ve had the chance to meet a lot of people who work at the Library of Congress. And they’ve all been awesome. I’m sure there’s probably one or two who work over there who are Las Vegas Raiders fans or who will tell you that they don’t like Kansas City Joe’s burnt ends. And other […]

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HistoryRewriter

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As a Plus member, you can stream our growing library of shows on demand. Join us on EduProtocols Plus at 9 pm EST/ 6 pm PST.

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NCHE

MARCH 7, 2023

It seems appropriate to recognize women who were teachers at a challenging time in our history. Cravath, 25 February 1871, American Missionary Association Archives, 1839-1882, microform reels 8-9, University of Florida West Library, Gainesville Charles I. ” New York Public Library Digital Collections.

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Living Geography

JULY 16, 2024

This has a biography of every GA President, along with hundreds of other posts on the history of the Association. You can borrow the book from the Internet Archive library. A cross posting from my GA Presidents blog. Utopia on Trial was written by Alice Coleman.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 11, 2024

In preparation for the 2024 Alexander Lebenstein Teacher Education Institute in Richmond, VA, Amy Livingston is reading Doris Bergen’s War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust. Spanning five centuries of Latino experience in the US, the book will enrich her knowledge of American history as a whole.

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Society for Classical Studies

APRIL 18, 2024

In addition to Harvard's own museums and libraries, visitors can take advantage of greater Boston's rich dining, entertainment, and cultural resources, including the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Boston Public Library, all easily reached by the MBTA subway from Harvard Square.

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History Tech

JULY 13, 2023

I’m spending a few days with some of the amazing staff at the Library of Congress (I’m looking at you, Cheryl), learning more about their super cool primary sources and more ways to use them. Yesterday I had a bit of chit-chat with the people in the LOC Newspaper Division that included some tips about […]

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Originally designed as an academic conference to share research, the event brought together Florida K-12 and college teachers and students, national journalists and professionals from libraries and museums whose work focuses on history and civics. One of Robinson’s fellow panelists at the conference, Hayley McCulloch, a U.S.

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ACRE

APRIL 15, 2024

The lesson could be used as a precursor to a unit on the New Deal in history classrooms or as a case study on economic policy impacts in a social science course. This lesson was designed to continue the topics presented in Dr. Witcher’s economic history lessons on The Great Depression.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

However, the new study introduces a third ancestral group with possible ties to Northeast Asia, often referred to as the Emishi people, which significantly reshapes the understanding of Japan’s genetic history. This migration wave was also accompanied by the adoption of Chinese-style laws, language, and cultural practices. Tomizuka, K.,

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Living Geography

JULY 19, 2024

And if no one wants me I'll go and have a pub lunch somewhere, have a walk on the coast or go to the library. I'll fill this in as my Wednesdays start to get booked up with things.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Using the same fossil material, curators and paleoanthropologists commissioned this bust , “The Neanderthal Man of La Chapelle-aux-Saints,” for the American Museum of Natural History in 1915. Keith’s nearly European Neanderthal figured into human history. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.

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Living Geography

MAY 6, 2024

A cross posting from my new GCSE Natural History blog which has now passed three hundred posts in preparation for the arrival of this new specification. For Merlin to learn to recognize a species by sound, we use audio recordings from the Macaulay Library that include a variety of sounds for each species to “train” Merlin.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Below are some examples of how my teachers made this shift when I was the principal at New Milford High School: Mr. Groff’s history classes utilized Paperlet , a participatory technology platform where students created digital stories that incorporated various multimedia elements including video, sound, and image files.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2024

They’re in the fading photos on the library walls of students who, over 177 years, attended the college and the boarding school from which it sprang, and of the Ursuline nuns who taught them, in their simple tunics and scapulars. Homan is compiling an archive of Chatfield’s history. It really has a lot of history.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

On Twitter, users add lessons and resources to the #CharlottesvilleSyllabus and #CharlottesvilleCurriculum pages; everything from identity charts to readings on the history of white supremacy to conflict resolution activities. What was troubling enough as 20 th century history is happening in present time. history standards ?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2024

Credit: Andrea Morales for MLK50 Andrea Morales for MLK50 At the Freedom Projects, students — called “Freedom Fellows” — learn about Black and Indigenous history, math, reading and public speaking. The original Freedom Schools opened to educate young Black Mississippians on Black history and political activism.

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Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Socratic Seminars bring history to life. It’s an approach that fosters a deeper, interactive engagement with history, making it more impactful and memorable. This approach both deepens students’ understanding of history and enriches their empathy and critical thinking skills through examining diverse viewpoints.

Library 52

Library Critical Thinking History Social Studies 52

Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Socratic Seminars bring history to life. It’s an approach that fosters a deeper, interactive engagement with history, making it more impactful and memorable. This approach both deepens students’ understanding of history and enriches their empathy and critical thinking skills through examining diverse viewpoints.

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