World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Items in museums are often not dated either or from more recent times. It is difficult to find examples of early African iron. Almost all pictures found on the net relate to commercial items, either without a date or the 19th / 20th century.

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Women's History Network

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The 33rd annual conference, which will take place on 4-5 September, 2025 will explore and celebrate women in the archives, libraries and museums and the challenge of uncovering their presence. We encourage approaches that foreground marginalised voices and imaginative approaches.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Holocaust Memorial Museum to research their assigned cluster of non-Jewish victims of Nazi oppression. (i.e. Holocaust Memorial Museum through online access of the collections, students will cite in MLA format their sources. To begin, I asked students to utilize a specific chapter in Nazi Ideology and the Holocaust by The U.S.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This picture from 1978 shows the relative size of 4-year-old Grace Latimer next to a replica of Lucy on display at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Ohio. Dated to 3.2 million years ago, Lucy was the oldest and most complete human ancestor ever found at the time of her discovery.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 15, 2025

But behind every collection of bones stored in laboratories and museums lies a deeper story—one of power, consent, and ethics. The authors argue for several key reforms: Transparency in Collection Histories : Museums and universities should fully document and disclose the origins of their skeletal collections.

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2025

Colonial Williamsburg Game: Uncovering Loyalties Museum of the American Revolution Virtual Tour Activity #5 – Allow Students to Become Activity Creators We all know that upper elementary students can be quite creative. Let them partner up with another early finisher and create activities for one another!

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 10, 2025

She has helped to bring together both classicists and scholars of ancient religion in order to address new questions, interrogate acquisition policies within the museum space, and recover the lives of ancient enslaved workers.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 4, 2015

As manufacturing tools continue to become better, cheaper and more accessible, the Maker Movement is gaining momentum at an unprecedented rate.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 16, 2025

John Lee/National Museum of Denmark, R. More than 100 engraved stones unearthed in Denmark depict images of the sun. The stones, including the two shown here, may have been buried as part of a ritual to bring back the sun after a volcanic eruption, researchers say. Iversen et al/Antiquity 2025 Read more

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

"We see a lag between when the genetic evidence tells us language capacity was present and when symbolic artifacts appear in the record," notes Ian Tattersall, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History and co-author of the study. This challenges the long-held view that language and symbolism arose in tandem.

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

APRIL 17, 2024

A visit to the National Museum of Natural History’s Sant Ocean Hall, whether in-person or online, offers connections for learners of all ages with experts, new ideas, and ways to take action in preserving the environment

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Last summer I participated in the VoxBox Civic Engagement course sponsored by the American Museum of Tort Law, an institution that focuses on civil justice and was developed by the political activist Ralph Nader. Unlike the majority of my peers, I am receiving a robust civics education, but it is largely outside of school.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Students will analyze pieces from the online gallery provided by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and compare the works in terms of perspective, realism, subject matter, imagery, scale, and the use of space. Image credit: [link] These teachers have provided students with writing scaffolds and exemplars to help them achieve this goal.

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Living Geography

JULY 21, 2024

A new exhibition opens at the Migration Museum in September: on the 12th. It explores the story of migration and how it has built modern Britain. It's called 'All our Stories'.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Image credit: The Natural History Museum via Alamy Stock Photo) The Role of the Pinky in Early Tool Use The researchers observed that the pinky finger played a significant role in grasping, particularly in early hominins like A. These findings point to a progressive evolution of dexterity and fine motor skills within early hominins.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Credit: Boglárka Mészáros, BHM Aquincum Museum A team of geneticists, archaeologists, and historians from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the HistoGenes project examined the DNA of 370 individuals dating from the 2nd century BCE to the 6th century CE, spanning sites from Mongolia to Central Europe. "DNA

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 16, 2025

As Alison Sheridan from National Museums Scotland notes: “This is a remarkable example of how archaeology and genetics together can illuminate the lives of ancient people. While male-centered narratives have often dominated discussions of prehistoric societies, this research places women at the heart of Iron Age Britain.

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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. In a museum basement, we huddled over a black-and-white photograph showing pieces of a lower jawbone and its loose teeth. Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The team matched 3D scanned pottery fragments with physical artifacts, streamlining their study of sherds located in distant museum collections. .” The use of MR also extended to comparative analysis. They envision AI-driven tools in the future that will automatically match fragment shapes, further enhancing artifact analysis.

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TeachThought

JULY 12, 2024

Curate cultural artifacts and ‘local memory’ Today, museums do the work of ‘curating,’ but that’s a crude way to preserve the cultural artifacts that matter. Used closed communities (Facebook Groups, for example) that, while not fully open, are still school-wide. There are ways. Why can’t schools do this?

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A recent study led by researchers from London’s Natural History Museum and the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy reignites the debate over whether Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ( Homo neanderthalensis ) should be classified as separate species.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester, NY. The West in History and Memory at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. Anthony & Reform at Susan B.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Below is the description from Google : Google Expeditions enable teachers to bring students on virtual trips to places like museums, underwater, and outer space. Teachers can bring lessons to life with Google Expeditions and take students on interactive, virtual field trips.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

They congregated in Vondelpark, close to the citys famed museums and canals, and also in Oosterpark, where I jogged daily. When I came to Amsterdam as a graduate student in 2012, I was surprised to find the citys parks teeming with vibrant green feathers, red beaks, and bluish tails.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Morphological characterization of a teosinte sample at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in the United States. This race, still cultivated in parts of Brazil and Uruguay, provides a living connection between the region’s agricultural past and present.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

Some of our topics include: The Underground Railroad at The Underground Railroad Heritage Center in Niagara Falls, NY West Coast Immigration at the Angel Island Immigration Station on Angel Island, CA Contested Elections: 1800, 1824, 1874, 1960 & 2000 at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, MA The World Wars and the American State (..)

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

But many other African fossils—particularly those collected during the colonial period—reside in European museums. The Taung Child itself remains in South Africa, housed at the University of the Witwatersrand. Beyond physical ownership, there is also the question of scientific control.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Her many publications covered topics ranging from Eastern Pomo linguistics and cultural history, to basketmaking, California Indian feather blankets and other art forms, as well as a biographical study of her mentor Mary Haas, and a number of studies of the fraught history of museum collecting of Native art in the US and Europe.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

Pandemic closures prompted hundreds of museums, art galleries and zoos around the world to launch virtual field trips in the last year. But a program offered through a museum in Utah sought to offer a different kind of virtual science field trip. Subscribe today! They see that this is a real place,” said Larson.

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ACRE

JUNE 19, 2023

Student Exploration Students visiting the museum can take a guided tour of both Hemingway’s studio & the Pheiffer home. Curriculum Guide The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center offers educational programming to all ages! They offer focused tours on a variety of topics including The life and writing of Ernest Hemingway.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A Reflection on the 2023 Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology, organized by the Council for Museum Anthropology Spot-lit sweeping ceramic vases made by the artist Dame Magdalene Odundo were the centerpieces of the exhibition Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects presented at the Gardiner Museum from October 2023 to April 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Over the past decade, researchers, museum professionals and educators have started to explore the use of virtual and augmented reality in relation to Holocaust education and memory. It’s intended for larger museum, school and community spaces. Credit: The Rowan University Virtual Reality Lab.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

During a recent unit on creating a meaningful curriculum, I brought my students to visit a local museum to meet with the museum curriculum director and curator of collections to learn how they create programming for children. They evaluated the museum’s education program and worked together to design a new curriculum.

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NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Want to connect with fellow classroom teachers and museum educators? Sessions will be led by dynamic classroom teachers and museum educators. Looking for fresh ways to teach about the American Revolution? Looking for advice on how to navigate teaching inclusive history during this time of divisive rhetoric? Why should you attend RevEd?

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We are limited by our geographic location to the sights/museums within driving distance. The National Museums of Scotland has a “ Discover Ancient Egypt ” virtual experience that introduces students to Ancient Egypt through a combination of virtual tours and games. Field trips are time-consuming to organize and plan.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

For teachers without access to virtual reality equipment and software, there are virtual online tours like the ones offered by the Smithsonian National of Natural History Museum or the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) interactive destination tour for kids.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

These make me wonder at the many silently maintained museums of absence that form an unofficial archive of conflict, telling stories that official histories often overlook. Local and international organizations across the world, such as inBosnia and Herzegovina, Lebanon, and Colombia, have been trying to recover missing persons of past wars.

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