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Sites of Encounter- The Medieval World

World History Teachers Blog

One of my favorite sites for teaching medieval cities like Mali, Calicut, and Quanzhou is called Sites of Encounter in the Medieval World. It comes from The University of California at Davis and includes lessons with primary sources, maps, charts, and graphs.

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Classroom Behavior Management Ideas to Try

Studies Weekly

Classroom Behavior Management Ideas to Try Mar 28, 2025 By Debbie Bagley NEWSLETTER Teaching children to manage their emotions is essential in the 21st century. A unique and effective way teachers can do this is by giving opportunities for regulating emotions through proprioceptive input activities.

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Age-appropriate Text and Engaging Activities with Studies Weekly | Teacher Testimonial

Studies Weekly

It may seem simple, but the ability to use printed, colored text and images when teaching social studies is incredibly impactful, she explains. Studies Weekly does an excellent job of incorporating age-appropriate text and engaging activities, and I loved exploring the online components that make it such a robust program.

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Tibetian Buddhism & Imperialism

World History Teachers Blog

Teaching Buddhism or imperialism? Examining primary sources about the looting, Thompson notes that one soldier wrote his mother that in one monastery " I got rather a nice gong which no doubt you will find useful when I am able to get it home." The forces looted monasteries and then burned them to the ground.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. King calls “ diaspora literacy ” to contend with the reflection of white supremacy in my paternal lineage and its connection to world history. King, Ph.D.,

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How Do You Grade a Creative Assignment?

ED Surge

Dear Bonni, I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this year. Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative?

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The Importance of Research in Social Studies Classrooms

Teaching American History

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas.