Friday, September 8, 2017

Weather Underground and Hurricane Irma

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Snippet of Weather Underground Graph As you have surmised by now, one thing I stress as an educator is cross-curricular learning and ...
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Friday, April 7, 2017

Loopy

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One of the things I always stressed in facilitating history instruction involved teaching students to think about how history helps u...
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Tuesday, November 8, 2016

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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 p...
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

The Movement to End Child Labor in the U.S.

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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 pi...
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Friday, October 21, 2016

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Incorporating Geography and  Economics in Your History Lessons I saw an article on in the Washington Post this week providing a s...
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Friday, October 7, 2016

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Storytelling and Politics A few weeks ago, I finally sat down to watch the Sandra Bullock movie  Our Brand is Crisis.   It would be gr...
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Friday, August 19, 2016

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Presentation Options This is the first year in over ten years that I will not be in the classroom as fall gets ready to start.  I'v...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

New Archive of 20th Century Resources

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Here is a cool new online archive of 20th century resources surrounding Winston Churchill. The archive includes primary sources such as...
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Sunday, May 8, 2016

Use Google Classroom as Discussion Board or Poll

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You can use Google Classroom as a discussion board. You can pose a question and students can respond and comment on each others. Here'...
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Saturday, April 30, 2016

Intro to Birthplace of Student Civil Rights Movement

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Jeff Feinstein, who writes for this blog, recently took his US history students on a field trip to the birthplace of the civil rights movem...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Online AMA review session

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AMA stands for Ask Me Anything.  I've scheduled two AMA sessions for my students in advance of next Friday's APUS exam. Here's...
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Saturday, April 23, 2016

I'm going to my first EdCamp today

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I'm going to my first EdCamp event today. EdCamp events are free, open-ended professional development get-togethers.  There are no fo...
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Friday, April 22, 2016

Online Seminary

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Fairfax County, VA's high school social studies specialist, Craig Perrier, is hosting a webinar on Teaching U.S. History in a Global ...
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Monday, April 18, 2016

Quizlet ups its game

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Quizlet, the popular online review app, now has a live version for whole classroom use.  It's called Quizlet Live and you can learn abou...
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Cool new exhibit on World War I at the Library of Congress

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How did American art influence World War I, and how did World War I influence American artists?  Those questions are addressed in a new exhi...
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