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Melissa Stager

Seeking Assistance - 37 views

Hi Keith, At some point in the unit we are doing I have each student create a glog showing how all of the pieces we have covered so far fit together. They grab information from youtube, add docume...

Web 2.0 U.S. History II 1920s blog formative assessment summative assessment 21c Skills Tony Wagner

started by Keith Dennison on 12 Sep 10 3 follow-ups, last by Melissa Stager on 14 Sep 10
cwelder

Child Labor in U.S. History - The Child Labor Education Project - 20 views

www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/...us_history.html

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  • hild Labor in U.S. History
    • eolsen
      eolsen on 13 Feb 15
       
      Can you see this? It's hypertext? we couldn't see the Header?
    • cwelder
      cwelder on 18 May 17
       
      Doesn't show up as underlined to me.
dpurdy

Hydrogen vehicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 13 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Hydrogen_vehicle

hydrogen what form infrastructure current

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    • dpurdy
      dpurdy on 19 Mar 12
       
      Is hydrogen sustainable? depends on the source. see this highlight.
  • While methods of hydrogen production that do not use fossil fuel would be more sustainable
  • The challenges facing the use of hydrogen in vehicles include production, storage, transport and distribution.
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  • The hydrogen infrastructure consists mainly of industrial hydrogen pipeline transport and hydrogen-equipped filling stations like those found on a hydrogen highway. Hydrogen stations which are not situated near a hydrogen pipeline can obtain supply via hydrogen tanks, compressed hydrogen tube trailers, liquid hydrogen tank trucks or dedicated onsite production.
  • Hydrogen use would require the alteration of industry and transport on a scale never seen before in history. For example, according to GM, 70% of the U.S. population lives near a hydrogen-generating facility but has little access to hydrogen, despite its wide availability for commercial use.[64] The distribution of hydrogen fuel for vehicles throughout the U.S. would require new hydrogen stations that would cost, by some estimates approximately 20 billion dollars[65] and 4.6 billion in the EU.[66] Other estimates place the cost as high as half trillion dollars in the United States alone.[67]
  • Hydrogen fuel does not occur naturally on Earth and thus is not an energy source, but is an energy carrier. Currently it is most frequently made from methane or other fossil fuels. However, it can be produced from a wide range of sources (such as wind, solar, or nuclear) that are intermittent, too diffuse or too cumbersome to directly propel vehicles. Integrated wind-to-hydrogen plants, using electrolysis of water, are exploring technologies to deliver costs low enough, and quantities great enough, to compete with traditional energy sources.[2]
  • dpurdy on 19 Mar 12
     
    Fuel cell cars are expensive.  The fuel cell costs a lot
Margaret Moore-Taylor

Explore the Constitution - National Constitution Center - 40 views

constitutioncenter.org/constitution

web 2.0 constitution history civics education tools

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  • Margaret Moore-Taylor on 15 Apr 13
     
    The Constitution Center offers a free interactive U.S. Constitution with lesson plans, activities, games, videos, and historical documents. Students can explore the Constitution by article, amendment, or specific issue
Don Doehla

Language Magazine » The U.S. Foreign Language Deficit - 13 views

languagemagazine.com/?page_id=6466

language magazine u s foreign language deficit news

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  • Don Doehla on 04 Jun 13
     
    Americans must learn other languages! Pick one to learn, any one! Pick one that interests you. Pick one from your community, your family history... Just pick one and enlarge your mind, your connections, your world! Support others learning as well, especially your own children if you have any. 
robbiejkb

Students First, Not Stuff - 71 views

www.ascd.org/...Students-First,-Not-Stuff.aspx

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    • robbiejkb
      robbiejkb on 24 Jul 13
       
      Is this really new? What about textbooks, Dvd's educational resources?
    • robbiejkb
      robbiejkb on 24 Jul 13
       
      Haven't students always come first?
  • a discrete set of standards and outcomes
  • we've spent billions of dollars on technology that by almost every measure has had little or no widespread effect.
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  • students more engaged
  • productive learning is the learning process which engenders and reinforces wanting to learn more
  • manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information,
  • attention literacy—the ability to exert some degree of mental control over our use of technology rather than simply being distracted by it
  • "learning ready,"
  • MIT Open Courseware or courses offered through Khan Academy will provide all the knowledge they need to pass a typical test on the subject
  • learn, MIT Open Courseware or courses offered through Khan Academy will provide all the knowledge they need to pass a typical test on the subject.
  • The reality is that I no longer need to send my children to a school to learn algebra, U.S. history, or French.
  • That doesn't mean that we throw all information and knowledge out of the curriculum. No question, all kids need to be able to read and write effectively, understand enough math to function in their daily lives, and have a basic understanding of science, history, and more. But we must be willing to consider that in a world full of access to knowledge and information, it may be more important to develop students who can take advantage of that knowledge when they need it than to develop students who memorize a slice of information that schools offer in case they might need it someday
  • But giving students devices and access is only a small part of the equation
Richard Bradshaw

DigitalBookIndex: THE 1930s: Federal Writers' Project (20TH c U.S. HISTORY) (e-Book, eT... - 13 views

www.digitalbookindex.com/...arch010histus20fedwriproja.asp

wpa history states guide

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  • Richard Bradshaw on 02 Jul 13
     
    WPA Writer's Project: Guides to the States
mel cooke

U.S. History in Context - Document - 47 views

ic.galegroup.com/...PrimarySourcesDetailsWindow

history

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  • born in the United States alon
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      mel cooke on 04 Feb 14
       
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      mel cooke on 04 Feb 14
       
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  • "For many a family, now that prosperity seems to be here,
Derek Allison

APStudent.com: U.S. History for AP Students - 14 views

www.apstudent.com/...cards.php

ushistory terms

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    • Derek Allison
      Derek Allison on 18 Sep 11
       
      Over 1000 terms for US History.
Mr. Mohan

Iraq Holding First Election since U.S. Troop Withdrawal | United States Institute of Peace - 5 views

www.usip.org/...t-election-us-troop-withdrawal

shared by Mr. Mohan on 23 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • s itself a triumph of sorts
    • Mr. Mohan
      Mr. Mohan on 23 Apr 13
       
      Why is this a triumph and is this a sign of hope?
  • The process does, however, face some challenges.
    • Mr. Mohan
      Mr. Mohan on 23 Apr 13
       
      Be alert for the challenges
  • three provinces forming the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) hold their elections separately.
    • Mr. Mohan
      Mr. Mohan on 23 Apr 13
       
      Why are the Kurdish regions different?
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  • Kirkuk
  • parties representing the ethnic and religious diversity of the province have not been able to agree to hold elections
    • Mr. Mohan
      Mr. Mohan on 23 Apr 13
       
      Is this a positive/negative?
  • Baghdad decided to postpone elections in the Sunni-majority western provinces, Anbar and Nineveh, for security reasons
    • Mr. Mohan
      Mr. Mohan on 23 Apr 13
       
      What do the two areas not holding elections have in common?
  • harbinger
  • In terms of a national identity, it might imply that certain provinces are less important than others
  • Given the toxic political environment, the rivalries and electoral history in Iraq, the integrity of elections will come into question by some.
  • Political and other differences are normal, but it is important that they are dealt with peacefully through a process of dialogue and problem-solving
Javier E

Obama's War on Inequality - The New York Times - 16 views

www.nytimes.com/...obamas-war-on-inequality.html

inequality Democratic party gop great depression New Deal obama obamacare

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  • what can policy do to limit inequality? The answer is, it can operate on two fronts. It can engage in redistribution, taxing high incomes and aiding families with lower incomes. It can also engage in what is sometimes called “predistribution,” strengthening the bargaining power of lower-paid workers and limiting the opportunities for a handful of people to make giant sums.
  • We can see this in our own history. The middle-class society that baby boomers like me grew up in didn’t happen by accident; it was created by the New Deal, which engineered what economists call the “Great Compression,” a sharp reduction in income gaps.
  • Obamacare provides aid and subsidies mainly to lower-income working Americans, and it pays for that aid partly with higher taxes at the top. That makes it an important redistributionist policy — the biggest such policy since the 1960s.
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  • between those extra Obamacare taxes and the expiration of the high-end Bush tax cuts made possible by Mr. Obama’s re-election, the average federal tax rate on the top 1 percent has risen quite a lot. In fact, it’s roughly back to what it was in 1979, pre-Ronald Reagan, something nobody seems to know.
  • What about predistribution? Well, why is Mr. Trump, like everyone in the G.O.P., so eager to repeal financial reform? Because despite what you may have heard about its ineffectuality, Dodd-Frank actually has put a substantial crimp in the ability of Wall Street to make money hand over fist.
  • these medium-size steps put the lie to the pessimism and fatalism one hears all too often on this subject. No, America isn’t an oligarchy in which both parties reliably serve the interests of the economic elite.
  • Money talks on both sides of the aisle, but the influence of big donors hasn’t prevented the current president from doing a substantial amount to narrow income gaps — and he would have done much more if he’d faced less opposition in Congress.
Kate Pok

Southern Hospitality? Not for Immigrants - NYTimes.com - 43 views

www.nytimes.com/...tality-not-for-immigrants.html

race racism Teaching culture immigration immigrants race & ethnicity

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  • Kate Pok on 20 Nov 11
     
    Good article illustrating the fluid definitions of race.
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  • Elaine Snow on 21 Nov 11
     
    Except that those ridiculous portions of the law, including the transport part, are now in the process of being repealed. As embarrassing as this all is, one should still do her homework.
  • Kate Pok on 21 Nov 11
     
    Many thanks for your comments. As far as I can tell, there's been a lot of debate about rescinding parts of the bill and there's certainly been support to change parts of it, but I haven't found anything that says that's definitely happening. At any rate, I was planning to use the article as an example of how racial categories tend to change based on circumstances rather than set in stone. Again, thanks for reminding me to double check details.
  • Elaine Snow on 21 Nov 11
     
    You are right, racial categories do tend to change based on the times as history shows us, but I'll point you to two articles in The Birmingham News which show a little more than just debate about rescinding parts of that bill. http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/09/federal_judge_throws_out_xxxx.html http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/11/immigration_law_amendments_in.html The fringe parts of this law are embarrassing to me as a native of Alabama, so I'd love to have our lawmakers' second thoughts on this seen as part of what's going on with this law.....Thanks, not meaning to nit-pick!
  • Kate Pok on 21 Nov 11
     
    @Elaine, for some reason your message hasn't shown up and I wanted to make sure I responded. I absolutely agree with you that the there are plenty of wonderful Alabamans who are embarrassed by the fringe parts of the law and I certainly don't mean any disrespect by posting this article. In fact, I think this article actually points to the generosity of spirit and kindness I remember most about growing up in the south. I'm also glad to see that there's quite a bit of protest about the worst parts of this law and agree that the protests should also be part of the conversation so I'm including the links you sent me here: http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/09/federal_judge_throws_out_xxxx.html and http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/11/immigration_law_amendments_in.html The articles do report that quite a few legislators and many immigrant rights activists are advocating revisions to the law and I look forward to seeing the repeals. That said, the articles also note that the bulk "of the new law is in effect despite a federal court challenge to it brought by the U.S. Justice Department, church groups and state and national civil liberties groups " and a "federal judge [Blackburn] this afternoon again upheld most sections of Alabama's tough new immigration law." In short, the fight for repeals is just beginning. Once more, I stress that I do NOT mean to offend anyone; rather, I think it's important to discuss the circumstances under which such a restrictive law could be passed as well as the reactions that have mobilized in response to it. I think it's a wonderful "teaching moment" about politics, economics, civic engagement, global economy, etc. Sincerest regards.
C Clausen

Mr. Hartwig's U.S. History Blog: Stock Market Simulation WebQuest - 39 views

hartwigshistory.blogspot.com/...arket-simulation-webquest.html

shared by C Clausen on 08 Dec 09 - Cached
Kelly Boushell

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids - 4 views

bensguide.gpo.gov

social studies resources history

shared by Kelly Boushell on 01 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Kelly Boushell on 01 Aug 11
     
    A great collection of resources about government for kids. Topics include declaration of independance, constitution, bill of rights, and more! Content is even organized by grade level.
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