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Deven Black

National Constitution Center: Which Founder Are You? - 21 views

www.constitutioncenter.org/FoundersQuiz

socialstudies usa constitution history interactive government US quiz game america c18th

shared by Deven Black on 18 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Lindsay Henry on 19 Sep 10
     
    This is so fantastic! I can't wait to use it in my class :)
David Hilton

AAAH - 16 views

www.brown.edu/...map.htm

africa history maps aaah europe sources images statistics interactive colonisation imperialism slavery slave-trade south africa africans c19th c18th c20th

shared by David Hilton on 24 Feb 10 - Cached
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  • David Hilton on 27 Feb 10
     
    An animated map which is an excellent source of information on foreign interference in Africa. You can zoom and use the left/right keys to navigate through the graphics. Helps to show how African power structures have changed over time. Very cool!
Ian Gabrielson

Searching for China: a Full WebQuest - 16 views

www.tommarch.com/...chinaquest.html

china History interactive

shared by Ian Gabrielson on 11 Feb 15 - No Cached
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  • Ian Gabrielson on 11 Feb 15
     
    " China is a majestic* country (note: links followed by * go to a dictionary definition) with a long and interesting history. If, like most people in the Occidental* world, you've never been to this fascinating land, you might want to take a brief tour. Go ahead and walk a few kilometers of The Great Wall or step foot into The Forbidden City or voyage to the Yellow Mountains. But beyond these tourist stops lives another, more complex, China. Currently, the people of China are experiencing great economic and social upheavals*. Such things as the situation in Tibet, Tiananmen Square massacre, and a scandal about treatment of orphans have brought some people to call for boycotts against China. Being faced with the task of understanding something as complex as a nation, you might want to give up. Sometimes in life you have that choice. But to give up trying to understand the China would mean giving up chances to benefit financially, to help people, to save some of the world's natural and artistic treasures, to protect the safety and security of millions of people, or to enlighten people's lives with greater religious insight. You see, you can't give up. So, if you're ready to begin, you might want to read a Travel Advisory before embarking* on our journey."
Chuck Holland

Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms - 21 views

www.newberry.org/K12maps

maps worldhistory unitedstateshistory History images america europe secondary sources

shared by Chuck Holland on 23 Jan 10 - Cached
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  • David Hilton on 23 Jan 10
     
    That looks great for showing the interactions between geography and history in America.
Carrie Kotcho

Teach the Gold Rush with Objects from the Smithsonian - 7 views

americanhistory.si.edu/...index.html

american history gold rush 1849 westward expansion west manifest destiny maritime California primary source

shared by Carrie Kotcho on 20 Jul 10 - Cached
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  • Carrie Kotcho on 20 Jul 10
     
    Van Valen's Gold Rush Journey -- encourages 6th - 8th graders to learn what life was like during the gold rush by investigating the journal of Alex Van Valen, a man who set sail in 1849 to stake his claim in the California gold fields. The website includes a rich set of primary sources to explore and analyze, an interactive guide where students can record, save and print their findings, as well as a teacher's guide.
Lance Mosier

GeoGames: The New Way to Teach GeoGraphy - 21 views

reachtheworld.org/...index.html

Geography interactive socialstudies maps games

shared by Lance Mosier on 08 Apr 11 - Cached
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  • Lance Mosier on 08 Apr 11
     
    GeoGames is a Flash game that lets you drag-and-drop onto the Planet Earth. You can rotate your planet, test your geography skills, and print a copy when you are done! There's a timer, so you can track your scores.
HistoryGrl14 .

Interactive Mock Jury Trial Game: Teaching Guide | Scholastic.com - 2 views

www.scholastic.com/...article.jsp

Street law law and you

shared by HistoryGrl14 . on 18 Feb 19 - No Cached
  • HistoryGrl14 . on 18 Feb 19
     
    Mock Trial jury Game
Javier E

A Teacher Made a Hitler Joke in the Classroom. It Tore the School Apart. - The New York... - 4 views

www.nytimes.com/...ol-ben-frisch-hitler-joke.html

Quaker joke teacher firing trigger anti-sleep anti-Semitism

shared by Javier E on 17 Sep 18 - No Cached
  • The concepts of “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings,” hotly debated on college campuses for years, are now reaching high schools too
  • the question of what high school students should be exposed to, and protected from, feels murkier in 2018. Today’s high school students are more precocious, more politically engaged, more tuned in to their gender identities and nascent sexuality. They are already flooded with uncensored, unedited information, 24 hours a day: What would a safe space even look like for a 16-year-old with an iPhone?
  • At exclusive private schools like Friends, the question is further complicated by the involvement of wealthy parents. As these schools have grown more expensive — Friends costs nearly $50,000 a year — administrators have found themselves trying to balance their own institutional values with the demands of parents who are in a sense high-paying customers. Teachers are increasingly caught between the two.
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  • The job of high school teachers is to impart knowledge and deliver measurable results, which requires finding a way to reach, and ideally even inspire, their students.
  • “How would you keep the attention of 15 teenagers and bond with them?” one Friends teacher texted me, insisting on anonymity because of a school policy that discourages teachers from speaking to the media without permission. “You MUST joke and be yourself and connect with them on their terms. It’s the only way to be good at this.”
  • Any teacher who spends three decades in the classroom, speaking extemporaneously for hours on end to a roomful of teenagers, is going to have awkward moments. Frisch might have had more of them, and they may have been a bit more awkward. But that was how he connected, and it was perhaps a way of connecting that is no longer possible. “Everybody knew this guy was off — weird behavior, quirky,” said one parent who, fearing retribution against her child, insisted on anonymity. “Maybe in the ’70s that would have been O.K., but not when you’re paying $45,000 a year in tuition.”
  • There aren’t enough seats in the historically more desirable uptown institutions — Spence, Dalton, Trinity — to meet demand; and for families who live in neighborhoods like the Village, TriBeCa or Battery Park, Friends is a much more convenient option. Friends now sees itself as a competitor to these schools, and in some respects, it has become indistinguishable from them.
  • Even before Frisch’s termination, there was a feeling among some in the Friends community — parents, teachers and especially alumni — that in its race to keep pace with a changing city, the school was losing touch with the Quaker ethos that had long distinguished it.
  • The school’s Quaker identity calls for it to be faithful to its progressive tradition, but in the new age of identity politics, it is not always easy to know what the right stance on a particular issue should be. Just a few months before the Frisch incident, some 20 parents had raised questions about the scheduled speaking engagement of a visiting scholar, Dave Zirin, a sportswriter for the Nation magazine and a Friends alumnus who had been critical of Israel in his writings. In 2012, there were heated objections to a musical performance in the meetinghouse by Gilad Atzmon, an Israel-born saxophonist and self-described “proud, self-hating Jew” who has written that Palestinians were “brutally ethnically cleansed” and suggested that if Israel starts a nuclear war with Iran, “some may be bold enough to argue that Hitler might have been right after all.” The Harvard Law School professor emeritus and noted gadfly Alan Dershowitz publicly criticized Friends — and Lauder personally — for refusing to cancel the appearance.
  • Lauder did not consider the “Heil Hitler” episode a close call. “Personally, I was appalled,” he told me. “I couldn’t imagine, even as a joke — and I grew up watching ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ — that in a class that had nothing to do with history or World War II or Nazism or teaching German language that an incident like that could happen.” I asked Lauder why he felt he needed to go so far as to fire Frisch. “One of our pledges is to make all of our students feel safe,” he replied. “And that is something that I take very, very seriously.”
  • That no one has accused Frisch of being an anti-Semite was beside the point: His invocation of the Nazi salute in a classroom full of high school students, regardless of his intentions, was enough to end his career. On today’s campus, words and symbols can be seen as a form of violence; to many people, engaging in a public debate about the nuances of their power is to tolerate their use.
  • Frisch, who first learned about the claims after his termination, denied ever having told a student to kill himself and said that he had no memory of the inappropriate touching that had been described.
  • we spoke at length about the “Heil Hitler.” Frisch said he was embarrassed, both by the fact that he had made the gesture in the first place and by his subsequent failure to recognize the seriousness of such a lapse in judgment. But he was also surprised by the school’s reaction to it. “I trusted while I was at Friends that because of my long-term commitment to the school, that as I need to change to meet the changing dynamics of the classroom, the school would help me learn and provide the support I needed to make those changes,” he told me.
  • The dynamics of the classroom are changing. These changes are partly specific to the hothouse environment of the campus in 2018. But they also connect to something much bigger. High schools have become genuinely unsafe: The “Heil Hitler” salute happened on the very same day as the Parkland massacre. And beyond the confines of the campus, a crude, violent bigotry that had long seemed part of the distant past has suddenly resurfaced, with neo-Nazis literally marching in the streets. The question now is what do we want our response to this new world to be
  • During the 12 days that he spent in limbo between his suspension and termination, Frisch, in the spirit of the Quaker commitment to reconciliation, drafted a letter of apology to his students that he was never allowed to send. Among other things, he planned to say that he was worried about the rise of anti-Semitism and that he was still learning lessons from his mistake. “You think about things like Charlottesville,” he told me. “Now, we don’t make jokes like this.”
Bob Maloy

1759: From the Warpath to the Plains of Abraham - 4 views

1759.ccbn-nbc.gc.ca/index_en.html

interactive frenchandindianwar colonial history Unitedstateshistory

shared by Bob Maloy on 01 Mar 16 - Cached
  • Bob Maloy on 01 Mar 16
     
    A game from the Virtual Museum of Canada, explores the French and Indian War from the standpoint of British, French, Canadian and Native American perspectives.
David Korfhage

Visualizing Emancipation - 7 views

dsl.richmond.edu/emancipation

history ushistory african-american-history multimedia maps slavery emancipation civil-war interactive visualization

shared by David Korfhage on 23 Feb 17 - No Cached
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  • David Korfhage on 23 Feb 17
     
    An amazing digital visualization of emancipation events during the Civil War
David Hilton

History Classes Collaboration Project - 105 views

They're probably a bit young Ginger to interact with the high school history students on the network. It might be a worry if there were misunderstanding or other problems given the age gap. Eventu...

collaboration projects classes ning networks

started by David Hilton on 25 Sep 09 19 follow-ups, last by David Hilton on 27 Oct 09
Joseph Phelan

Resources for History Teachers - 48 views

Jeremy Please do put Bob Maloy in touch with me. He can call or write jphelan@neh.gov or 202-60-6374. As far as the World History resources go, we are a working on it but will not be ready for thi...

Massachusetts state frameworks cocial sciences social studies history wiki resources ancient medieval modern europe america asia africa south america greece rome egypt britain france germany russia italy china japan india sources documents images usa c15t

started by Jeremy Greene on 26 Apr 11 4 follow-ups, last by Joseph Phelan on 24 Jul 11
afmurphy

Magna Carta - The British Library - 2 views

www.bl.uk/magna-carta

world history England government Magna Carta documents

shared by afmurphy on 10 Feb 20 - No Cached
  • afmurphy on 10 Feb 20
     
    Interactive summary that includes video and primary source materials as well as the relevance to politics and government today
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