Posted in civil rights, history, lesson plans, primary sources, social studies, teaching on July 18, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s the last day of instruction here at Gilder Lehrman’s elementary summer seminar and I think most of us are dragging a bit. Honi, Bunny and Texas are even slowing down!
But we had another great conversation this morning about the Civil Rights movement and another nice activity planned by Fritz Fischer.
We split into four groups [...]
Posted in history, social studies, teaching on July 16, 2008 | No Comments »
No . . . we’re not talking about the Dallas Cowboys. Because their record over the last ten years is, what . . . like 5 and 101?
We’re talking about real cowboys.
Today’s session at the Gilder Lehrman elementary teachers summer seminar focused on Western Expansion and how America has created and accepted the myth of [...]
Posted in government, history, lesson plans, primary sources, social studies on July 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Still in Boulder with the Gilder Lehrman elementary school/primary sources seminar and still having some great conversations!
Today? Which comes first?
Specifically . . . in the United States - did the institution of slavery cause racism or did European racism create American slavery?
Fritz Fischer had us look at a few of the earliest laws of Virginia [...]
Posted in government, history, lesson plans, social studies, teaching on July 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Was the American Revolutionary War really revolutionary? Was it a true revolution? Dr. Fritz Fischer talked about this late on Monday afternoon.
He started by asking the question:
If you had to think of a shape that describes Colonial American, what would that shape look like?
He suggests that the shape would be a triangle or pyramid with [...]
Posted in Google Earth, Google Maps, cool, geography, social studies, teaching on July 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Okay . . . it’s actually Where the Hell is Matt? but since I’m trying to sell this to middle school teachers (and their administrators!), I’m toning it down a bit.
Matt is an unemployed former video game designer who can’t dance. Well . . . he can dance a bit. Just one dance. He’s own [...]
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