John Brown's 1859 Raid on Harpers Ferry - 2 views
Directory of Historical Resources - 1 views
Before Lucy came Ardi, new earliest hominid found - Yahoo! News - 2 views
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"The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor."
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"The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor."
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Virtual Tour - 2 views
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The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. The visitor can navigate from room to room either by using a floor map or by following blue arrow links connecting the rooms. Camera icons indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up on a particular object or exhibit panel.
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The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. The visitor can navigate from room to room either by using a floor map or by following blue arrow links connecting the rooms. Camera icons indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up on a particular object or exhibit panel.
ODYSSEY/Homepage - 1 views
US Foreign Policy After the Cold War - 1 views
Constitution Summary - 0 views
September 11 Remembered by Twitter - 0 views
Taxonomy of Socratic Questioning: Useful for classroom practitioners - 0 views
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Via via activehistory.co.uk, this taxonomy of Socratic questions is not a hierarchy but rather categories build upon each other and do not necessarily follow a pattern or design. The role of the educator is to keep the inquiry "on track," but, also, to allow the students to follow a path of their own design.
MeeHive: About - 0 views
Retention Lost in Lectures - Brain Leaders and Learners - 2 views
Could Texas' Gingrich-Based High School History Curriculum Go National? | TPMMuckraker - 0 views
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Could Texas' Gingrich-Based High School History Curriculum Go National?
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The GOP-controlled State Board of Education is working on a new set of statewide textbook standards for, among other subjects, U.S. History Studies Since Reconstruction. Approved textbooks, the draft standards say, must teach the Texan student to "identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly, and the Moral Majority." No analogous liberal figures or groups are required
The Social Benefits of the Google Books Settlement - Digits - WSJ - 0 views
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"A broad group of professors and civil rights leaders said that the important social benefits of the settlement - which would allow Google to make millions of out-of-print books accessible online - are getting lost in the discussion of the settlement, which has drawn a fierce group of critics hoping to block a federal court from approving it."
The future of libraries, with or without books - CNN.com - 0 views
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As this CNN.com article points out books are being discarded and replaced by digital learning centers and gaming areas. As one might imagine, not everyone is ready for, or embraces, such a change.
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As this CNN.com article points out books are being discarded and replaced by digital learning centers and gaming areas. As one might imagine, not everyone is ready for, or embraces, such a change
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