Maya Culture and Myths - 3 views
Mayan Folktales - 3 views
Houses in ancient Rome - 16 views
Story of the Week: Destruction of the Tea in Boston - 10 views
Integrating technology too tightly with education presents its own kind of problems | P... - 2 views
Europeana 1914-1918 - Explore stories - 6 views
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An enormous, searchable archive of primary sources from the years of World War I--from Europe, the US, and New Zealand
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Yes, it is a great project. If you are interested, here are some ideas how to start working with the collections in the classroom: http://geschichtsunterricht.wordpress.com/2014/02/01/working-with-the-europeana-1914-18-collections-in-the-history-classroom-part-13-scarcity-vs-abundance/
Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History - 10 views
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/freedom.htm Essays, primary sources, bibliographies, images, ideas for classroom discussion, current scholarly debate, and more.
A Teacher Made a Hitler Joke in the Classroom. It Tore the School Apart. - The New York... - 4 views
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The concepts of “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings,” hotly debated on college campuses for years, are now reaching high schools too
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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?
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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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How the Suffragettes influenced Mahatma Gandhi | columns | Hindustan Times - 0 views
The First Decades of the Massachusetts Bay; or Idleness, Wolves, and a Man Who Shall No... - 6 views
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In November 1630, John Baker was “whipped for shooteing att fowle on the Sabboth day”; and in June 1631, it was ordered that Phillip Ratliffe should be whipped, have his ears cut off, and be banished “for vttering mallitious and scandulous speeches against the goumt. & the church of Salem.
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The inattention paid in the official record to women or indigenous land compels us to force open gaps and bring alternative narratives to light. Without this work, John Winthrop’s will be the only story told in textbooks about this country’s colonial history.
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The Puritan freemen may have the loudest voices in the archive, but theirs are not the only narratives being told.
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When historians look through more evidence they come to understandings that students never get to see becuase their teachers may only rely on the evidence that is part of the liturgy of the US History narrative canon. In this instance, routine court records will tell us much more about puritan Massachusetts than a John Winthrop sermon.
The vanishing animals that future generations will never see - 2 views
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“But there are conservation success stories. Mountain gorilla populations are increasing and we now have around 800 in the wild. Golden-mantled Tree Kangaroos also seem to be stabilising."
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In Madagascar there are only around 100 blue-eyed black lemur left
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In March a rhino was poached from a French zoo, the first time such an incident has ever been recorded, and demonstrating the demand for rhino horn
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Is History history? - 35 views
I am creating a site you and your students might enjoy and perhaps add to. ahaafoundation.org is an online course in the history of art around the world. You can jump in anywhere. I would love to f...
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