Over at this historical blog Lynn Meighan pointed out to us called Old Picture of the Day I have come across an interesting idea. I don’t know if it is educational or not, but is it possible to stump the internet?
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Here. Quick money making scheme - Posterize the entire thing. Every history teacher in the country would buy one.
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What books are important to read for a regular level, high school, US history class?
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I am reading a couple of different books, but books that I think have value to Social Studies teachers:
Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond. Societies have made societal choices that ultimately led to thier downfall. It wasn’t like Monday everything is fine and Tuesday the place is a ghost town, [...]
Karl Fisch brings up some great points about what we should be teaching in Social Studies.
Past and present activities.
Organizations of people associated together for [various] purposes.
Human society past and present.
Informed and reasoned decisions for the public good . . . in an interdependent world.
I think we need to look at how much we “cover” [...]
I have written previously about the new Civil War course I am creating. In my research, I found this blog: Teaching the Civil War with Technology I hope I will be able to use some of the resources demonstrated there. Check it out!
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Now I will be up all night trying to figure out what all this of means. Very creative. I hate when kids tell me they can’t do something. This is the one piece of evidence I will need from now on. If someone can tell about the wars of the world from WWII to the [...]
I don’t know how much you are reading on the housing crisis and the economic situation of the US and the world, but this article from Harper’s magazine is a great and non-economics jargony article.
More than a decade of economic and financial-market chaos followed, as the dollar remained the international currency but traded without an [...]
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