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2/23/20
Classroom Activity Kit: The History of Climate Change
by Mark Deltor and Sam Mastrianni
What do farmers from the 1950s, anti-smoking campaigns and climate change have in common? Download this Classroom Activity Kit to find out.
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2/23/20
Classroom Activity Kit: The History of U.S. Immigration
by Paige Morse, Julia Brown, and Andrew Fletcher
This Classroom Activity Kit teaches students about U.S. immigration history while also highlighting their personal histories.
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2/23/20
Classroom Activity Kit: The History of Sports Activism
by Jonathan Montano, Laura Gonzalez, and Lila Someshwar
Discussing athletes from Jackie Robinson to Colin Kaepernick, this Activity Kit teaches students about the history of political activism in sports.
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2/23/20
Classroom Activity Kit: The History of Private Prisons in the U.S.
by Isabella Delpino, Jared Levinson and Matthew Crawford
Download this Classroom Activity Kit to teach students about the history of the American prison system.
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2/23/20
Classroom Activity Kit: The History of Climate Change and Activism
by Chelsea Connolly, Elisabeth Pearson and Samantha Benthien
Download this Classroom Activity Kit to help students understand climate change activism in its historical context.
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2/23/20
HNN Introduces Classroom Activity Kits
by Chelsea Connolly and Kyla Sommers
Combining the fields of journalism and history, these activity kits provide educators with complete downloadable lesson plans.
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SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
11/14/19
Using Digital History in the Classroom
New to digital history? These three steps may help you incorporate #DigHist into your classroom.
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SOURCE: Slate
5/20/19
If “living history” role-plays in the classroom can so easily go wrong, why do teachers keep assigning them?
Teachers with no sense of perspective tried to make history personal and ended up reinforcing white supremacy in the name of “learning.”
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
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History prof's tirade against class-skippers draws attention
When students failed to show up for a lecture given by Guy Halsall, professor of history at the University of York, you might imagine that he suffered a flicker of self-doubt and that the empty seats bruised the confidence of a sensitive scholar.Not a bit of it: Professor Halsall berated his students for missing a lecture from "probably the most significant historian of early medieval Europe under the age of 60."He posted the comments within the university's virtual learning environment, which is used for online contact between students and tutors.According to York student newspaper Nouse, Professor Halsall responded to an underattended second-year lecture by telling students they were failing to make the most of the "obscene amounts of money" that "mummy and daddy" were paying for their education....