World History
- The Ghost Ship Of The Arctic
I found this fun short article at ezinearticles.com. As the site allows for the reproduction of articles by blogs and other websites, I am going to go ahead and reprint it here. The article is by Debra Cruz. ---------------------------------------------------------------...
- The Most Important Invention In Modern History - The Clock?!
This is a fascinating video arguing that the invention of the clock lead to a completely changed way of life for all of us, changing our sleep patterns, hurrying our lives, but also making us think more in terms of accounting for all part of our life...
- Rabbi Herschel Schacter Is Dead At 95; Cried To The Jews Of Buchenwald: ?you Are Free?
Here's an fascinating obituary about the one of the first Jews in the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. On April 9, 1944, Rabbi Herschel Schacter, attached to the Third Army?s VIII Corps, commandeered a...
- Artifacts Show Ancient Nomads Sophisticated
Interesting New York Times story suggesting ancient nomads had a pastoral strategy that helped them maintain networks and thriving cultural exchanges. The evidence comes from burial mounds in the Altai Mountains of eastern Kazakhstan. Might be an interesting...
- Note Taking - What Is The Best Way?
While I have a lot of less traditional ways of teaching (in case you haven't figured it out from my blogs), I still do have the kids do some note taking. Here I have struggled in asking whether or not even this part of my teaching is up with...
World History
A Cargo Colossus on the Sea
Here's a cargo ship as long as the Empire State Building is tall. It contains enough steel to build eight Eiffel Towers.
It might be interesting to show kids how much trade has changed and how much the world has become a global marketplace, as the New York Times notes in this fascinating story.
- The Ghost Ship Of The Arctic
I found this fun short article at ezinearticles.com. As the site allows for the reproduction of articles by blogs and other websites, I am going to go ahead and reprint it here. The article is by Debra Cruz. ---------------------------------------------------------------...
- The Most Important Invention In Modern History - The Clock?!
This is a fascinating video arguing that the invention of the clock lead to a completely changed way of life for all of us, changing our sleep patterns, hurrying our lives, but also making us think more in terms of accounting for all part of our life...
- Rabbi Herschel Schacter Is Dead At 95; Cried To The Jews Of Buchenwald: ?you Are Free?
Here's an fascinating obituary about the one of the first Jews in the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. On April 9, 1944, Rabbi Herschel Schacter, attached to the Third Army?s VIII Corps, commandeered a...
- Artifacts Show Ancient Nomads Sophisticated
Interesting New York Times story suggesting ancient nomads had a pastoral strategy that helped them maintain networks and thriving cultural exchanges. The evidence comes from burial mounds in the Altai Mountains of eastern Kazakhstan. Might be an interesting...
- Note Taking - What Is The Best Way?
While I have a lot of less traditional ways of teaching (in case you haven't figured it out from my blogs), I still do have the kids do some note taking. Here I have struggled in asking whether or not even this part of my teaching is up with...