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By: THE 133rd CARNIVAL OF EDUCATION « The Red Pencil

THE 133rd CARNIVAL OF EDUCATION « The Red Pencil — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:22:26 +0000

[...] and learning classrooms. Joanne Jacobs suggests that it might be the best way to go when teaching History (which she says is way better as a theatre for the higher reaches Bloom’s Taxonomy than [...]

By: triticale

triticale — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:01:41 +0000

I remember an old song:
Don’t know much about the Middle Ages,
Looked at the pictures and I turned the pages.

My thought when I heard it was that if that kid’s teacher had shown the class the Erroll Flynn Robin Hood movie, the singer would have demanded to learn more about the Middle Ages. History is exciting.

By: Paulr

Paulr — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:57:48 +0000

I was always impressed by a timeline
of Mathematical discoveries from IBM
(there’s one in the hallway in SJSU’s
Math and Computer Science department).

It’s an impressive scroll that
dipicts the history and the vast
content of Mathematics.

By: Rafael Corrales

Rafael Corrales — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:36:51 +0000

Just an fyi but these books helped me skip 2 grades... and they answered questions like "who invented stairs?" Cheers from the CK Tutors blog!

By: Vish..!

Vish..! — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:36:07 +0000

Dear… Here in India we have social studies till eighth and then broken down into geography, history and Civics…

I cant remember anything now.. But yes.. Biographies helped a lot in remembering many a things..

* You have got a nice collections of thoughts and Opinions in this blog…

By: Nels Nelson

Nels Nelson — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:57:06 +0000

I don’t doubt that could work well with some students, but learning history through biographies has always been my favorite method.

By: wahoofive

wahoofive — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:33:13 +0000

You must have gone to school a while ago. Now they spend half a semester on Native American stuff. At my daughter’s school (which shall remain nameless) they spent so much time on Indians that they only got to the Boston Tea Party in March, and had to rush to get to the Civil War by the end of the year (this was 8th grade, and they called the subject “Humanities”).

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:51:44 +0000

I discovered a great history resource while my daughter was attending private school, and used it for afterschooling. Now that I’m homeschooling, I can get even more from it. It’s at http://www.historyatourhouse.com/main/index.html and has a concept-driven presentation of history. No hodge-podge of unrelated facts that in the end teach nothing.