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
The former secretary of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda chief, has broken her vow of silence in an interview with Germany’s biggest newspaper. [Thx Kese!] ‘I was working as a typist at the propaganda ministry, and his radio station, and was the fastest. It was an order to be transferred to work for him. You couldn’t [...]
A lost Roman amphitheatre has been found atop a hill in northern England. Crowning the summit of Studforth Hill, the oval arena would have combined spectacles and entertainments with a magnificent 360-degree view, making it the equivalent of a national theatre of the north. The find by Cambridge University archaeologists – led by a young [...]
A&E Home Entertainment has graciously provided a double-DVD set of The Thomas Hardy Collection, featuring Tess of the D’Urbervilles and The Mayor of Casterbridge. TESS OF THE D?URBERVILLES Her luminous beauty blazing against the bleak background of rural Victorian England, Tess Durbeyfield (Justine Waddell, ?Great Expectations?) is one of literature’s best-loved and most memorable heroines. [...]
Archaeologists in Britain have found the first pre-Roman planned town which shows that Iron Age societes were much more sophisticated than previously thought. Prof Mike Fulford, an archaeologist at the University of Reading, said: “The people of Iron Age Silchester appear to have adopted an urbanised Roman way of living. “They did this all before [...]
20 masks worn by actors and a family monument have been found during excavations carried out in the ancient city of Myra, Turkey. The excavations of the site are being carried out by Akdeniz University’s Archeology Department under the supervision of Professor Nevzat Çevik, from the same department. Çevik told the Anatolia news agency that [...]
If you’ve got $2.7 million lying around and have no idea what to spend it on, may I suggest buying a Civil War battlefield in Georgia. The Kennesaw tract entered Civil War history in June 1864, when Sherman’s army was pushing south from Tennessee toward Atlanta. In their path was Kennesaw Mountain and its heavy [...]
Attention coin collectors: the most complete collection of ancient Roman Republican coins ever offered for sale is coming on the market this spring. In October 5th, Numismatica Ars Classica will offer the first part of perhaps the most complete collection of ancient Roman Republican coins ever offered for public sale. The Roman Republic spans the [...]
The wall of a cairn, an ancient burial mound, from the Parthian Empire has been found in Northern Iran. A coin and a copper artifact of the medieval Islamic civilization were also found at the archaeological site in Nowshahr in Mazandaran province, the Iran Cultural Heritage, Handcrafts and Tourism Organization said. The Affelle archaeological site is about [...]
A unique Roman jar riddled with holes is stumping scientists who have never come across anything like it before. “Everyone’s stumped by it,” Katie Urban, one of the researchers at the London, Ontario, museum, told LiveScience. “We’ve been sending it around to all sorts of Roman pottery experts and other pottery experts, and no one [...]
An analysis of an Egyptian mummies hair shows that a fat-based product was used to hold their hair styles in place. McCreesh thinks that the fatty coating is a styling product that was used to set hair in place. It was found on both natural and artificial mummies, so she believes that it was a [...]
Three medieval abbey walls have been found at a hotel in Conwy, Wales. He said: “The grounds here are a scheduled ancient monument, because of the importance of the abbey in its day, so Gwynedd Archaeological Trust were on site when we found the first wall. “It’s believed to be the cloister wall of the [...]
High levels of erosion are threatening Samuel de Champlain’s 1604 settlement on St. Croix Island. It’s the first time the water around the site has been examined. The research team from Submerged Resources Center of the United States National Park Services is focused on a small cove on the Canadian side of the island. Combing [...]
The wreck of a warship which sank in 1564 has been found off the coast of Sweden. Historians believe the ship may be the Mars, the head of Erik XIV’s fleet. “Everything suggests that it is indeed the Mars that we have found,” Richard Lundgren, one of the divers, said in the statement. “The size [...]
43 medieval tombs have been uncovered near the coast of the Black Sea in Bulgaria. 43 tombs have been found in the area of the so-called Church 2 in Kaliakra. The most precious find there is a stamp with the portrait of the Virgin Mary, discovered on August 15th, the very same day when the [...]
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A 3D scan of a 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy shows that the was of high status because his organs were removed and replaced with rolls of linen. The images indicate that embalmers removed the man’s brain and major organs and replaced them with rolls of linen, a superior embalming method used only for those of high [...]
A new study suggests that the Black Death of 1348-49 was spread through person-to-person contact, not by rats. “The evidence just isn’t there to support it,” said Barney Sloane, author of The Black Death in London. “We ought to be finding great heaps of dead rats in all the waterfront sites but they just aren’t [...]
Researchers have found a 3,500-year-old substance in an ancient Egyptian flask to be a carcinogen. It is believed it may have been used as a skin lotion to help tackle eczema. The contents included palm and nutmeg oil, along with fatty acids of the kind that can relieve such disorders. There are known to have been cases [...]
New evidence found at a fort in England points to a more advanced Roman textile industry than previously thought. These fabric scraps, it turns out, provide evidence that Rome developed an unparalleled textile industry. Romans established factories throughout their empire, having learned effective loom building from the Egyptians. Dyes allowed the creation of riotous color [...]
The remains of 12 children and 20 llamas sacrificed 800 years ago have been found near the ancient city of Chan Chan in Peru. Experts believe the children and animals were killed in a ritual similar to the Incan ceremony known as Capacocha, which was organized before the imminent death or birth of an Incan [...]
More than 6,000 artifacts have been uncovered at the site of a 7,000-year-old village found in Des Moines, Iowa. The site, nicknamed “the Palace” because of its size and preservation, yielded the remains of two humans, a woman and an infant, that are the oldest human bones to be found in the state. “It’s always [...]
LiveScience has posted an interesting interview with paleoanthropologist Sandi Copeland. It’s sometimes nice to learn a little bit about the people behind interesting finds. What is your favorite thing about being a researcher? It is thrilling to discover something that no one else has discovered before, whether it is an actual fossil or the result of [...]
Archaeologists working at a Georgia Civil War prison camp have unearthed a collection of artifacts. The Yankee soldier, who had meager possessions, must have been proud of his ring and its distinctive diamond-shaped centerpiece. Somehow, the size-11 ring was lost, discarded or left behind, only to be swallowed by the earth on a rise near [...]
Evidence of trepanation, cranial surgery, has been found in the skulls of three men from North Africa’s ancient Garamantian civilization. Skulls of three men from North Africa’s ancient Garamantian civilization, which flourished in the Sahara Desert from 3,100 to 1,400 years ago, contain holes and indentations that were made intentionally to treat wounds or for [...]