Contemporary Social Studies 2010
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Ning Brought to you by Search Sign Up Sign In Teaching Digital History using documents , images , maps and online tools Main My Page Members Photos Videos Blogs Forum All Discussions My Discussions Add Contemporary Social Studies 2010 Posted by John Lee on December 6, 2010 at 3:03pm in Visual historical inquiry View Discussions Social studies is a big and sometimes unwieldy subject . Given with the massive body of content in the field and differentiation among pedagogical approaches , social studies educators have the space to be creative and expressive . There are certainly some agreed upon aims in social studies . In fact , there is something approaching consensus that social studies should aim to prepare young people for citizenship . But , what that process entails is a point of
New research has found that dinosaurs survived more than 700,000 years after the meteorite impact that was said to have wiped them out. Many palaeontologists believe that all non-avian dinosaurs disappeared almost 66 million years ago – after debris from the meteorite blocked out the sun and caused extreme climate conditions, killing vegetation worldwide. But [...]
Edible Geography has put up a fascinating interview with Paul Mayewski, an ice core researcher who often times drinks the objects of his study! Edible Geography: What does it taste like? Paul Mayewski: It tastes about as clean as anything can taste. It doesn’t have a lot of anything in it. When you’ve pulled water [...]
The remains of a fox has been found in a 16,500-year-old human burial, prompting further investigation into early animal domestication. The University of Cambridge-led team believes that the unprecedented case points to some sort of emotional attachment between human and fox. Their paper, published today, suggests that the fox may have been kept as a pet [...]
Tools and teeth which date back between 200,000 and 400,000 years ago have been found in Qesem Cave in Israel. “We know that they had a set of different knives, almost like a modern butcher, that they used in the cave in order to cut the meat and eat it. And, we even have what [...]
Forty statues from Tell Halaf in Syria that were bombed to pieces in a German museum during WWII have been pieced together and put on display in a special exhibition. About 40 resurrected figures — including a pair of lions that once bared their teeth at the entrance of a palace at Tell Halaf in [...]
A wharf dating back to the late-1700s has been found unearth layers of mud in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Last June, as workers excavated portions of Newburyport’s Water Street for the city’s new waste-water operations building, they unearthed large, centuries-old slabs of granite. Based on maps and archaeological research, the giant rectangles of rock were identified as [...]
The skeleton of a guard dog buried 2,000 years ago to guard a horde of coins has been found in England. Archaeologists have pieced together the remains of a 2,000-year-old guard dog whose spirit is believed to have protected a hoard of treasure. The skeleton, which is about the same size as that of a [...]
I know what you’re thinking – Adolf Hitler’s last surviving bodyguard gets fan mail? Rochus Misch is 93 and uses a walking frame to move around his apartment. He told the Berliner Kurier tabloid that, with most of the letters he receives asking for autographs, it was “no longer possible” to reply because of his [...]
Space-age technology used to analyse moon rocks is being use analyse sculpted fragments of Tudor-era tombs and virtually recreate the as they were originally intended to be seen. Leicester University art historian Dr Phillip Lindley was called in to investigate the fragments and was immediately fascinated – not just by the quality of the artwork [...]
A trove of ancient burials, dating from the Iron age to the early Hellenistic period have been found in Pella, northern Greece. Particularly remarkable are the graves of nine male warriors, including one that dates to circa 650 BC. This dead man, buried in a manner worthy of a celebrated hero, was interred with a [...]
A 127-kilometre long wall dating back to the early 19th century has been found in central Vietnam. In 2005, Dr. Andrew Hardy, associate professor and head of the Hanoi branch of École Française d’Extrême-Orient (French School of Asian Studies), found an odd reference to a “Long Wall of Quang Ngai” in an 1885 document compiled [...]
A lost concert by the 18th century composer Antonio Vivaldi has been played for the first time in public in more than 250 years. Il Gran Mogol is almost complete, only missing a part for the second violin. But Mr Woolley has reconstructed it using the manuscript of another flute concerto by Vivaldi, which is [...]
A skeleton of African descent found in Stratford-upon-Avon may have been a Roman soldier who chose to retire in the area. He added the bones revealed the man was heavily built and used to carrying heavy loads. He had suffered arthritis in one of his shoulders, his hips and lower back. Mr Palmer said: “His [...]
A researcher from Standford has built a working kiln based on late Iron Age and Roman models found in Britain. In the shadow of Hadrian’s Wall, Roman soldiers defended their empire’s northern borders in Great Britain, passed the time in their bathhouses and inevitably drank a lot of wine. They also made an awful lot [...]
A nine-year-old in Essex has saved a precious 6,000-year-old axe head from being thrown away. An alert nine-year-old stopped his granddad throwing away a 6,000-year-old flint axe head which he had mistaken for a regular stone. Tony Page didn’t realise the significance of the find as he walked with grandson and Cub Scout Owen on [...]
A new study has found that Genghis Khan was the greenest invader in history, killing so many people that carbon levels plummeted. [Thx Darby!] The Mongol leader, who established a vast empire between the 13th and 14th centuries, helped remove nearly 700million tons of carbon from the atmosphere, claims a new study. The deaths of [...]
Researchers in Spain say that the famous composer Frédéric Chopin probably suffered from epilepsy. In her memoirs, his lover George Sand recalled various times when Chopin experienced visual hallucinations, including during a trip to a monastery that was “full of terrors and ghosts for him”. In a letter written to the daughter of George Sand, Chopin [...]
Egypt has official requested from Germany the bust of Queen Nefertiti. The Egyptian government on Monday said it has sent an official petition to German authorities asking for the return of the 3,300-year-old limestone bust of the ancient Queen Nefertiti. Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the council had sent [...]
The completion of a 2,000-year-old tunnel excavation in Jerusalem is sparking fears of violence. Some Palestinians believe the project is an attempt to damage the Al Aksa Mosque; previous archeological projects in the area have led to rioting by Palestinians. Uzi Dahari, the Israel Antiquities Authority ‘s deputy director, told Israel Radio on Tuesday that [...]
One of the biggest episodes of mass extinction may have been caused 250 million years ago because of toxic ash resulting from burning coal. In the current Nature Geoscience, a team led by Stephen Grasby of the Geological Survey of Canada—Calgary, report evidence the eruption of the Siberian volcanoes torched massive coal beds, leaving behind [...]
A dinosaur the size of a parrot, and with only one finger on the end of it’s short arms, has been found in China. Unearthed in northeastern China, Linhenykus monodactylus is a member of the theropod dinosaurs, the group of two-legged carnivores that includesTyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor. Most theropods had three fingers on each hand. [...]
The face of an Iron Age woman whose remains were found in a bog has been recreated. Experts from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) generated a digital model of the bones, which was used to make a replica of the bog woman’s skull. Later, five researchers from Germany and the United Kingdom produced a [...]
A gomphothere is an elephant like creature that lived in North America before becoming supposedly becoming extinct some 30,000 years ago. It was previously believed that humans and gomphotheres did not cross paths, but the discovery of 12,000-year-old Clovis heads are turning that theory on its head. This finding completes a scene in which archaeologists [...]
A study of ancient Translyvanian snake bracelets has revealed that the people were extremely rich in gold. Showing “no economy of gold at all,” craftsmen shaped each spiral cuff from an entire ingot, study author Bogdan Constantinescu said. Most of the 2,000-year-old accessories tip the scales at about 2.2 pounds (1 kilogram) each, more than [...]
Do I dare show this to my U.S. Studies Class? We are approaching the American Revolution…
This past weekend in St. Louis a special Civil War Reenactment took place on the steps of the Old State House, only it was not your typical gun smoking affair. This time a group of historians and local residents reenacted what they called a “last slave sale.”
From the article:
The site of the “auction,” the Old [...]
Don’t agree with President Obama on pretty much all of his political views, but tonight’s speech in Arizona was, in my humble opinion, his best. Very proud of the President and First Lady. Very proud, they had an opportunity to rise above the political rhetoric, unlike the media, and they did indeed and did so [...]