Lessons of history - 0 views
In England, there has been a push towards changing the history curriculum to be compulsory until a higher age level. The teaching of history has been placed under review that the lessons are taught...
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Make Classes Fun By Teaching History CSI Style - 3 views
Teachers have always struggled with finding a way to make teaching and learning history fun. Some interesting history resources include Teen Second Life or materials from the National Archives. As ...
National Geographic Teaching Resources - 1 views
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/teaching-resources/?ar_a=1&ar_r=1 This is a great site for geography resources. This site provides teacher's with some great resources for a vari...
Canada's History Becoming Lost in the Past - 0 views
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Scott King on 11 Sep 11This great newspaper article printed in The Halifax Commoner gives a good description of the teacher I think we all would like to become. William is a secondary school teacher in Nova Scotia which believes that history can be meaningful to the students, if a teacher can show them how it relates to their own lives. Once the teacher is able to make this connection, students become engaged and understand history's relevance. However, with the limited time allocated towards teaching history in elementary and secondary it can be difficult to teach lessons which incorporate a critical-thinking aspect in them. What students (in most) cases are left with is lesson plans that are overburden with dates and boring facts rather than a lesson plans that is able to engage students in meaningful discussion and debate. Drawing from statistics from the Historica-Dominion Institute in 2010 the author paints a very dismal picture of Canadians historical knowledge and the current state of our history curriculum.
The Steve Jobs Model for Education Reform - 2 views
Link to article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203914304576631100415237430.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
THE PERSONAL SIDE OF A COUNTRY AT WAR Social Studies & English Language Arts Lesson Plans - 0 views
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If you link to this site you will find many letters written during the War. The link provides you with many lesson plans on the war and use the letters to help show the students the real side of being a soldier. I think students will find this very interesting and it provides us as first year teachers a great resource to first hand accounts of the great war.
Fun ways to teach kids geography - 3 views
http://www.squidoo.com/teach-geography This is a website that can be used by teachers to get ideas on ways to make geography a little more interesting for students. It provides many different ide...
What we teach our students could save their life! - 1 views
This article by James Owen for National Geographic news reported that one school girl's lesson on plate tectonics helped her to realize that the retreating ocean was a sign that an earthquake had h...
Canadian historians mod Civilization III to teach Canadian history - 1 views
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This article is great for computer-savvy teachers or historians who are interested incorporating computer gaming into their history lessons. Bitcasters, Telefilm Canada and Canada's National History Society have joined together to make an application which can be added to the Civilization III which uses Canadian history as a bases for the gaming environment. This is a unique way to make history lessons more interesting especially for those gamers in your class. The only difficulty I see with using this in the classroom is how to incorporate it to the curriculum and limited class time allotted for history. To help keep the game tied to the curriculum, HistoriCanada includes historical references such as the Canadian Encyclopedia, which are integrated directly into the game. An added bonus for teachers is that the game allows teachers to track progress on the game's web site, which will also provide further background information on the actual course of Canadian history.
How to Make a History Class Relevant to Students - 2 views
This article provides results of studies that demonstrate that the average student finds history to be dull and lacking excitement. A major justification to student beliefs is that history is irre...
Teach LGBT history in public schools - 0 views
This article discusses the importance of trying to include the gay rights movements into the curriculum in public schools in the states. Councilman Danny Dromm thinks that the curriculum should beg...
Why Teaching History is Important - 1 views
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When President Bush enacted the, "No Child Left Behind Act", he created a large hindrance of learning for the subject area of history and other humanities. This act primarily focusses on the subject areas of math and literacy. With the recent election of President Obama, similar patterns have continued to exist concerning the area of history. President Obama's policy concerning education focusses on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Author, Chelsea Gibson, states, despite the continued emphasis of math and literacy and the support these subjects receive from the government, history and social studies will always teach our children important life lessons. This in turn will create responsible and informed critical leaners. Gibson states 4 reasons as to why the application of history in schools creates critical and informed lifelong learners: 1. History teaches analytical skills. History requires students to make connections and allows them to ask question. Gibson states, critical thinking is the foundation for history therefore, making critical learning an essential learning tool. 2. History is also integrated into other curriculum areas such as the Arts, psychology, philosophy, and modern languages. 3. History teaches and improves writing skills. 4. Finally, history makes students more aware of their heritage.
The Historical Thinking Project - 1 views
Canada's government is interested in making history a more central focus in the education system. A project, called 'The Historical Thinking Project' is attempting to foster a new approach to teach...
How to teach the iGeneration - 2 views
http://www.fox59.com/news/education/wxin-how-to-teach-the-igeneration-20111102%2c0%2c2610062.column
EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT - 1 views
http://canadashistory.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9f8132854db4c2a3b24732481&id=8145df6f6e This link is an excellent resource that provides access to sign up for bi-weekly newsletters from the ...
Literacy in Geography - 0 views
This resource has so much information about teaching literacy in geographical concepts. This article describes how to teach students to read and write maps, tables, charts, and pictures in all them...
Geography Songs and Raps - 0 views
Start your geography lesson with a song or rap to grab your student's attention! There are many different songs that you can model a concept or skill of geography with. They can then spur conversat...
Professional volunteers teach students GIS technology - 0 views
http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/education/precollegiate/professional-volunteers-teach-students-gis-technology/article_02a78241-fef7-5e9a-bd4f-0b9d5f85d655.html Throughout Utah County, 4 hund...
Geography for Kids - 0 views
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Science for kids is a great interactive website for both teachers and students. This website provides different games, experiments, videos and even lesson plans and worksheets for teachers.
Introducing Technology in the Classroom - 0 views
http://www.citejournal.org/vol1/iss1/currentissues/socialstudies/article1.htm This article comes from Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, outlines best practices for using tec...