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US History Projects

Passion for Social Studies

Luckily, the US History Projects Bundle has everything you need to integrate engaging ways for students to demonstrate their learning. history can often feel distant or abstract, but projects help make it real by involving students in hands-on tasks. On top of this, projects help make history relevant.

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Using Images to Understand the Interwar Period

World History Teachers Blog

Atlantic Magazine published 45 black and white stunning black-and-white photographs of the interwar period around the world.

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Chrome Extensions for Educators

A Principal's Reflections

Click & Clean deletes typed URL''s, browsing history, Flash cookies, and other types of online activity. feedly xt : Transform your Google Reader and Twitter accounts into a personalized magazine. Google Translate : Translate entire web pages into a language of your choosing with just one click.

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Summer Learning Loss: A National Dilemma

A Principal's Reflections

In 2010 Time Magazine published an article that clearly articulated The Case Against Summer Vacation. History, Calculus AB, English Language & Composition, and English Literature & Composition. Certain 12th grade AP students will also have access in the following AP courses: Chemistry, Biology, U.S.

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A Silken Web: How Weaving has Shaped Human History

World History Teachers Blog

Here is an excellent essay by the historian, Peter Frankopan, for AEON Magazine about the significance of silk from its accidental development in China to its use as a "symbol of extravagance and decadence" in Afro-Eurasia. It's a great story and the excerpts are for great for the classroom.

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An Ode to Jonathan Marks, or How I Became a Marksist

Anthropology 365

What He Wrote and Why it Matters Jons first book, Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History (1995), came out of a simple but transformative observation: the science of human difference had changed dramatically over the twentieth century, and most people, including many scientists, hadnt caught up. Jon wasnt rejecting science.

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Huh? The Valuable Role of Interjections

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This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. For most of the history of linguistics, scholars have tended to focus on written language, in large part because thats what they had records of. Utterances like um, wow, and mm-hmm arent garbage, they keep conversations flowing.

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