Weather Underground and Hurricane Irma
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by Anonymous
3y ago
Snippet of Weather Underground Graph As you have surmised by now, one thing I stress as an educator is cross-curricular learning and relevancy.  Current events have always been one of my favorite ways to do both.  This article, from Weather Underground, provides not just good analysis of the hurricane, but also provides some insightful information on the Okeechobee Hurricane of 1928 and the devastation that caused.  There are some interesting mini-lessons that students could do to tie in both science and engineering into a history lesson.  There's also some inte ..read more
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Loopy
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by Anonymous
3y ago
One of the things I always stressed in facilitating history instruction involved teaching students to think about how history helps us understand why things are the way they are today, and how it can continue to shape the future.  I always enjoyed helping kids make those connections between a series of past events leading into present day. Since moving into evaluation, I've been finding that evaluators call this process 'logic modeling' - basically the process of mapping out the different possibilities that might happen given the introduction of a certain program, service, etc. Ente ..read more
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Loving v. Virginia By now, I'm sure most are...
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by Anonymous
3y ago
Loving v. Virginia By now, I'm sure most are aware that the Loving story has been made into a movie.  This past weekend, it premiered at the Virginia Film Festival, and was featured in an article in our local paper.  For many of the students in localities around me, the incidents in this case took place in a neighboring county, making it a great way to introduce relevancy.  There are a number of great resources out there, some of which have been highlighted on this blog in the past.  If you are in a different part of the country, it might be worth looking into whether ..read more
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The Movement to End Child Labor in the U.S.
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by Anonymous
3y ago
The Movement to End Child Labor in the U.S. While you probably haven't made it to the Progressive Movement yet, this set of pictures by Lewis Hine on child labor in the Washington Post looks like an interesting discussion piece and another great way to include primary documents in your classroom.  It might also be interesting to compare/contrast Hine's photography approach with Dorothea Lange and her pictures of migrant farmers during the Great Depression.  Some great discussion topics could stem from these pictures involving discussion on labor laws, childrens' rights, the ..read more
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Incorporating Geography and  Economics in Yo...
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by Anonymous
3y ago
Incorporating Geography and  Economics in Your History Lessons I saw an article on in the Washington Post this week providing a set of cartograms highlighting the spending by the U.S. on foreign assistance.  I love incorporating cartograms periodically with my students; it's a great geography skill to review or teach, and it really allows them to visualize quantitative information in a different way.  This article also allows you to incorporate some discussion of macroeconomics principles.  There's definitely plenty of material for group discussions and debates.   ..read more
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Storytelling and Politics A few weeks ago, I fina...
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by Anonymous
3y ago
Storytelling and Politics A few weeks ago, I finally sat down to watch the Sandra Bullock movie Our Brand is Crisis.  It would be great to incorporate portions of this movie into a discussion on campaigning, particularly given the current election cycle.  (Note: It has an R rating, so proceed according to your school policy.) Then, a couple weeks ago, I saw this video in the New York Times, where a real life political strategist talks about the story lines that campaigns strive to create.  He definitely gives some of his own opinions in the piece, so I would tal ..read more
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Presentation OptionsThis is the first year in ov...
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by Anonymous
3y ago
Presentation OptionsThis is the first year in over ten years that I will not be in the classroom as fall gets ready to start.  I've taken a new position doing program evaluation in my district.  As such, I'm getting nostalgic for all the bulletin board creating, lesson planning and classroom set up this time of year always involves. I still get to create presentations, however, and I have been looking for some new tools to shake things up a little bit.  Many of us know about Prezi, and this blog has also covered the potential available with PowToon, but I was lookin ..read more
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New Archive of 20th Century Resources
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by Unknown
3y ago
Here is a cool new online archive of 20th century resources surrounding Winston Churchill. The archive includes primary sources such as images, cartoons, and documents. One of the most interesting parts of the archives are the investigations of significant issues designed for high school students. Find out what went wrong at Gallipoli or if Britain could have done more for the Jews during WWII. The website gives you an overview of each issue along with a chart of primary sources to help students come to a conclusion. The database is divided into four themes: Key developments in wor ..read more
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Use Google Classroom as Discussion Board or Poll
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by Unknown
3y ago
You can use Google Classroom as a discussion board. You can pose a question and students can respond and comment on each others. Here's how. Open Classroom and click the "plus" sign. Next, click "Question." Add your question. Mary Catherine Keating, a teacher at Chantilly High School who showed me this feature,  asked her students which cause of World War 1 was most important--alliances, militarism, imperialism, or nationalism. Once a student responds, then he or she can see other comments and responses. After a student submits the comment, you get an email notification of the post ..read more
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Intro to Birthplace of Student Civil Rights Movement
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by Unknown
3y ago
Jeff Feinstein, who writes for this blog, recently took his US history students on a field trip to the birthplace of the civil rights movement--  a fascinating museum in Virginia called the Robert Russa Moton Museum. Few people know that Moton High School provided three-fourths of the plaintiffs in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation case. Feinstein says that one student thought that the field trip should be required because it was so moving. You can read Jeff's column about the trip here at PBS Education. The PBS NewsHour also mentioned the field trip toward the ..read more
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