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
An object found in the tomb of an Egyptian architect may be the world’s first protractor. The architect Kha helped to build pharaohs’ tombs during the 18th dynasty, around 1400 BC. His own tomb was discovered intact in 1906 by archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli in Deir-al-Medina, near the Valley of the Kings. Among Kha’s belongings were [...]
A mosaic-covered wall has been found in a tunnel built to support Trajan’s Baths. Archaeologists and city officials unveiled the recent find to reporters Friday on the Oppian Hill. The mosaic-covered wall is 16 meters (53 feet) wide and at least 2 meters (6.6 feet) high. Officials think the wall continues down some 8 meters [...]
Researchers in Bavaria are trying to figure out was more than 700 tunnel networks in the area were used for. The Greithanners, from the town of Glonn near Munich, are the owners of a strange subterranean landmark. A labyrinth of vaults known as an “Erdstall” runs underneath their property. It is at least 25 meters [...]
Way back in 1515, Pope Leo X commissioned Michelangelo to build a facade for a church. However, due to costs the project was never completed and all that remains are sketches and a wooden model. Now the mayor of Florence wants to initiate a project to finish the work, which is sparking controversy among residents [...]
Daly History Blog where the past meets the present meets the future meets the past Home About me Book Reviews Contact Me Gallery My Books and Articles My talks Europe in Flames by Harold J Goldberg Writing a History of the war’ is always an ambitious idea , and one that is very rarely pulled off . There’s just so much to cover , it can only ever really be a framework at best . Not since Basil Liddell Hart s History of the Second World War has a historian really gone close to covering this vast conflict in one volume . In any case , it’s all been so well written about , what is there that we can add anyway I’m not what exactly the purpose of this book is . It gives an overview of the Second World War , year by year , in pretty basic fashion . But it also interweaves some oral history quotes
Tanks from WWII, which sank on the way to the D-Day landings near the Isle of Wight, are being studied in order to better protect them. The vessel was carrying two Centaur CS IV tanks, two armoured bulldozers designed to destroy any anti-tank devices on the beach, a jeep and other military equipment for the [...]
An Etruscan holy site which dates back 3,000 years have been found 50 miles north of Rome. A number of materials were linked to cult fires and “clear evidence of votive offerings,” Cardarelli said. “Religious activities 1,000 years B.C. were carried out through fire,” he said. “Offerings were burnt for the gods — sacred objects, [...]
A tomb believed to belong to St. Philip has been unearthed during excavations in the ancient city of Hierapolis in Turkey. Italian professor Francesco D’Andria said archeologists found the tomb of the biblical figure — one of the 12 original disciples of Jesus — while working on the ruins of a newly-unearthed church, Turkish news [...]
Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered a 2,800-year-old monument carved by the Olmecs. The work – standing more than 1.5 meters (5 feet) tall – was discovered in late April on the north slope of Chalcatzingo as archaeologists were building a containing wall and protective roofs for the other monoliths in the area. Sculpted on the [...]
Excavations of sites in Peru have revealed that war and a devastating fire ended the Taraco people. Their results suggest Pukara waged a violent war against Taraco, possibly killing hundreds with their weapons before burning the state to the ground. “In the century that Pukara peaked, the site of Taraco was attacked, and [it] ceased [...]
Archaeologists in Madrid have begun a search for the remains of Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote. The project to seek Cervantes’ bones, which lie buried somewhere in the walls or floors of a convent in central Madrid, would allow forensic archaeologists to reconstruct the face of a man only known from a picture [...]
Engine parts from a German bomber shot down during the Battle of Britain have been found in an garden in Somerset, England. Engine parts of the Heinkel were left 5ft (1.5m) underground in Puriton for over 70 years archaeologists have said. Homeowner Alan Jennings said: “It’s not everyday you get someone knock on the door [...]
The remains of a church has been found in the ancient city of Pisidian Antioch in Turkey. “We have found the remains of a three-nave church one and a half meters below the surface,” Ozhanli told AA correspondent. Ozhanli said the building was constructed as a Pagan temple, however it was converted to a church [...]
The discovery of 600-year-old coins in Kashmir has set off a looting spree. A melee broke out on Saturday evening among the labourers and locals in Srinagar’s Shree Bhat area when the National Building Construction Corporation, digging a deep sewage, stumbled upon an earthen pot containing hundreds of coins. “People mistook the coins for gold [...]
An image of a speared reindeer found carved into a cave wall may be the oldest rock art in Britain. “This drawing was done with the right hand and the niche is very, very tight and the engraving has been done by somebody using a piece of flint who has drawn a classic reindeer design. [...]
An ancient campsite has been found in New Brunswick that proves First Nations people move through the area when portions of it was still under ice. “We had individual spear points that we knew were that old. But it’s just we never had the sites to give us contextual information — like what people were [...]
National Geographic has compiled a list of the top five theories on why the Inca built Machu Picchu. Nestled atop a mountain ridge in Peru, the 15th-century Inca city of Machu Picchu had sat largely forgotten for centuries—until archaeologist Hiram Bingham began excavations of the ruins a hundred years ago this week. Now one of [...]
Two 10,000-year-old skulls found in a sand quarry in Sommerset, England, has led to the discovery of the UK’s ‘oldest’ open-air cemetery. An analysis of weapons belonging to the Ancient Egyptian elite show that they were actually used in battle or for executions, and not just held for ceremonial purposes. The new findings show that [...]
An analysis of weapons belonging to the Ancient Egyptian elite show that they were actually used in battle or for executions, and not just held for ceremonial purposes. Not only were they able to be used in battle, it seems about half of the 125 weapons studied showed evidence of wear and tear, suggesting they [...]
A tiny golden bell which was lost 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem has been found near the Old City. The bell was found inside the main drainage channel taking rainwater from different parts of the city to the pool of Siloam, which is mentioned several times in the Bible. “Apparently, the high official was walking [...]
12,000-year-old rock art has been found in a cave in Germany, making it the first Stone Age artwork ever found in the country. “They include schematic depictions of women’s bodies and unidentifiable symbols, among other things,” she said. The ancient artists appear to have taken their inspiration for the erotic images from rock formations in [...]
The construction of a Sainsbury’s in Scotland has uncovered burned oak which was used as a heat source somewhere back in the Mesolithic era. “The lack of any other Mesolithic dating on the site suggests that there was no settlement in the area, and that instead the hearth represents a temporary rest stop.” Nomadic hunter-gatherers [...]
An examination of 14 Norse burials in England have revealed that more Viking women took place in the invasions than previously thought. Women may have accompanied male Vikings in those early invasions of England, in much greater numbers than scholars earlier supposed, McLeod concludes. Rather than the ravaging rovers of legend, the Vikings arrived as [...]
Over 300 convict-era artifacts have been found underneath the floorboards of Hobart’s historic Penitentiary Chapel in Tasmania. The discovery at Hobart’s historic Penitentiary Chapel includes coins, clay pipes, home-made wooden gambling tokens, a writing slate and bones. Archaeologist David Roe says it is particularly exciting because the artefacts are very personal items belonging to the [...]
A boulder weighing more than 300lbs, containing a petroglyph of bighorn sheep, has been returned to its original home in Nevada after being stolen in 2008. In April, Michael Cook, 58, a Pahrump real estate agent, was sentenced to six months in prison for stealing the petroglyph. He claimed he used a rope to pull [...]
Cleanup operations for the BP oil spill has revealed dozens of archaeological sites left behind by prehistoric Indian settlements. So far, teams of archaeologists hired by the oil giant have visited more than 100 sites and sent back a growing list of finds to labs for radiocarbon dating and other tests, though extensive excavations haven’t [...]