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"The development of the History Standards was administered by the National Center for History in the Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles under the guidance of the National Council for History Standards. The standards were developed with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the U.S. Department of Education." 
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A head of English gets to the heart of the curriculum debate and shares his X Factor-based teaching resource on using solo taxonomy...
Because if you believe in what Ian Gilbert calls The Great Educational Lie (do well at school and you'll get a good job) then passing exams is fine. But if you believe that "to succeed in business you need to break the rules" then we have a responsibility to teach content in a way that also teaches skills, dispositions and competencies needed to make our children indispensible in an uncertain future.
Some have asked me "why teach students in a digital environment if it's more work for you?" Digital skills that the social media classroom seek to provide our students are going to become increasingly important in the workforce of tomorrow. We don't just teach content, we teach students; they will forget most lessons but if they have the tools to find the answers for themselves, our work will be done. Via Gust MEES, João Greno Brogueira, Seth Dixon
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This is an update to Bloom's Revised Taxonomy which attempts to account for the new behaviours and actions emerging as technology advances and becomes more ubiquitous. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy describes many traditional classroom practices, behaviours and actions, but does not account for the new processes and actions associated with Web 2.0 technologies, infowhelm (the exponential growth in information), increasing ubiquitous personal technologies or cloud computing. Via JackieGerstein Ed.D.
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This interactive game, puts the player in the role of a 14 year-old in Boston in 1770. Would you make choices to join the Loyalists or Revolutionaries? This approach to learning about an historical time period is an engaging way to make the history meaningful to students. Download the game at: http://www.mission-us.org/
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To watch the entire documentary, to read background information and to order DVDs, visit: http://newsreel.org/video/BROTHER-OUTSIDER-BAYARD-RUSTIN This is a ...
This is a trailer for the documentary referenced earlier about Bayard Rustin, a man whose resume was similiar to Martin Luther King Jr.'s, but was not placed in a role of prominence for the movement because...(you'll have to watch the full documentary or do some research to find out why).
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On her profile, Pandora agonizes about having opened the box. “I am so ashamed,” she writes, “I’ve opened the golden box and thousands of little lizard-looking creatures escaped!
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Website featuring photographs and descriptions from the book Without Sanctuary by Hilton Als and James Allen, with postcards of lynchings in America.
This is a chilling website that documents a horrific part of America's past. Lynchings were a communal activity that reinforced local identity and maintained structural, institutionalized racism. Use with caution and judiciousness as it might not be appropriate for all grade levels. Shown above is the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, on August 7, 1930, in Marion, Indiana. This is very hard for me to view, but it is harder for me to pretend that it it wasn't a part of American History.
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Weeks after a judge ordered the removal of a prayer banner at a Rhode Island school, the atheist teen at the center of the controversy continues to receive threats as the school board decides its next move.
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Trying to protect his students' innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a period of a million years when everyone had to wear sweaters. And the Stone Age became the Gravel Age, named after...
Read the poem...food for thought about the role of history teachers within society.
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This is a link to the NCSS standards in PDF format. This is a great resource to reference.
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The National Archives Digital Classroom: Primary Sources, Activities and Training for Educators and Students.
History in the Raw is the National Archives website, designed to allow teachers and students to access more primary source documents for classroom use. Using these resources with allow students to 'do history' for themselves instead of just listening to to others shape the historical narrative. There are numerous lesson plans with excellently curated documents by the wonderful folks at the National Archives.
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In educational circles, Bloom's taxonomy is frequently cited as a way to categorize whether learning is tapping into higher domains of thinking (as portrayed in this diagram here). This link will connect you to an interactive infographic that combines Bloom's Taxonomy (cognitive domain) with domains of knowledge. This link is worth looking at, even if most of our time will be focusing on Bloom’s taxonomy.
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A brief war the United States fought with Spain that resulted in the independence of Cuba. Via Mr. David Burton
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This link connects you to the NCSS website quick summary of the 10 standards for social studies with quick summaries to what each theme (e.g.-culture) entails.
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Michael Slackman, The Times's Berlin Bureau Chief, looks into the city's obsession with a popular street dish that combines sausage, ketchup and curry powder.
The globalization of food, immigration and the diffusion of cultural practices are all richly displayed in this short clip.
Shelby Porter's curator insight,
September 26, 2013 9:36 AM
The globalization of food is becoming more apparent in todays culture than ever before. More and more restaurants from different parts of the world are showing up and alot of the food we as Americans are familar with are taking on some new ethnic influences. The currywurst is a great example of one country's culinary favorite around the time of WWII and enhancing it with an American and Indian by way of London flavor. And now it is one of the most popular treats someone can buy while in Germany. Many of our cultures foods are being influenced by others now and flavors are beginning to mix as well as our idea of where foods come from. The diffusion of cultural practices as well as the globalization of food will only grow stronger as time goes on, and so will our taste for a new culinary delight. 
Liam Michelsohn's curator insight,
November 6, 2013 2:20 PM
Ahhh the currywurst on the street, well i thought this was great very informitive cultural video. The speical dish that is made and served among the streets in germany and all over, it is thought to be a very weird and almost un appitizing meal to some one like my self. However those food are very popular and prominate in there culture, just like certian foods, hotdog stands, flaffel carts and other foods that we enjoy have be come common in our culture. However I dont see currywurst hitting the streets of NYC any time soon. 
Kenny Dominguez's curator insight,
November 29, 2013 12:23 PM
The Currywurst sounds good but it seems that it will upset my stomach. I have a feeling it would. But it seems to be a hit were it is sold because that is what most people eat when they are on the streets burlin.
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Click on the link for a full Listing of The United States' Record of Veto Use at the UN* (1972-2011); below are a selected sampling: 1976 Afirms the rights of the Palestinians. 1979 Demands that Israel desist from human rights violations. 1979 For a United Nations Conference on Women. 1981 Declares that education, work, health care, proper nourishment, national development, etc are human rights. 1982 Calls on Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights occupied in 1967. 1984 International action to eliminate apartheid. 1987 Measures to prevent international terrorism, study the underlying political and economic causes of terrorism, convene a conference to define terrorism and to differentiate it from the struggle of people from national liberation. 1989 Condemns USA invasion of Panama. 1999 Calls on the USA to end its trade embargo on Cuba. 2007 Calls for the protection of the Global Climate. 2008 Calls for a treaty on children's rights. 2008 Condemns Racial Descrimination. 2011 Calls for the immediate and complete cessation of all Israeli settlement activities in all of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan.
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The Syrian government's crackdown on an uprising in 1982 was so brutal that Syrians rarely spoke about it. But now, some Syrians plan to mark the 30th anniversary of the events in Hama as they continue with the current uprising.
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November 25, 2015 12:53 PM
The Syrian Uprising of 1982 was one of the most barbaric acts in our modern times. The people of Hama in 1982 were no friends to the current president of Syria's father. But the response was horrific. Assad's father, send in his brother with the army and Air Force, and shelled and bombed the city into total destruction. Something like 85,000 men, women, and children were killed. This is the same kind of ruthlessness that is shown today on all sides in the Syrian Civil War. Fred Issa,
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Beginning with the end of the US Civil War in 1865, African Americans toiled to reach equal status in the eyes of the law. Via Erskine S.Weekes-Libert
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A Google-Maps/Amazon mash-up for finding books that take place where you're traveling. Search the map and make your next destination come alive!
This site has the potential to merge geography and social studies education with English and literature studies. This site, Novels on Location let's you search for book titles using Google Maps to scroll through the collection. However, there are very few geo-coded titles at the moment, but with some help, this could be a fantastic resource.
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Movie Lesson Plans Based on Films that will Inspire and Motivate Students; 350+ Movie Lesson Plans for High School, Middle School, Elementary and Home School all for Only $11.99 per year at TeachWithMovies.com...
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Sounds like a paradox, but this project is planning to tweet WWII 'updates' on this day and time as though it were 1940. This could really make historical events more real and foster historical empathy.
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This video provides a short, easy-to-understand guide to understanding the U.S. election process. As 2012 GOP nomination process is in full gear, students in civics, history and social studies class will need to more fully understand the process that will take place later in the year.
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This is a great counter-factual history, but also a glimpse into what people of 1911 imagined might be technologically possible.
Heather Ramsey's curator insight,
February 6, 2013 7:25 PM
Industrialism created so much change in America in the late 19th and early 20th century, it's no wonder that people would have high expectations for what life would be like in another 100 years. What do you think of their suggestions? How far off were they?
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Safely and seamlessly sync your files with Dropbox. It's the innovative way to share your files and access them anywhere.
This is an excellent resource for anyone who uses more than one computer but needs all their files to be portable.
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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. -- Screens of all kinds are constantly flickering in Michael Hathorn’s Hartford, Vermont classroom. The high school teacher is using 21st Century technology, putting the books aside, to get his students online. Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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