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Making learning fun and interactive builds excitement for your
social studies students. This book includes game-formatted
activities for the study of land and water forms, map components,
latitude and longitude, climate, vegetation, plate tectonics,
natural disasters, global water issues, economics, and political
systems. These hands-on activities are aligned to state and
national standards and supports college and career readiness
skills. The hands-on lessons foster engagement, teamwork,
creativity, and critical thinking. In addition to history-based
lessons, this resource includes grading rubrics and ideas for
assessment. The games in Hands-on History Activities will help you
take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students
to make their own explorations of history.
In many of the sources I have read, there was an element of
evolutional thinking in the progress of man. Ancient man was looked
upon as underdeveloped, superstitious and ignorant. How arrogant we
have become. I believe we are the ignorant ones. We have been duped
through the generations that we know it all - We have ascended to
heights way above our ancestors in knowledge - when really we know
less than they did. Can any of us rattle off the constellations and
explain why they are up there? Do we know how the sun and moon work
together to point out the month and season we are in and follow
them through each mansion? Do we understand the positions and
phases of the moon and why they even happen? Without this
information we cannot know His true appointed times
The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of
Neoliberalism examines the work of contemporary writers,
filmmakers, and critics who, reflecting on the realm of school
experience, help to shape dominant ideas of school. The creations
discussed are mostly stories for children and young adults. David
Aitchison looks at serious novels for teens including Laurie Halse
Anderson's Speak and Faiza Guene's Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow, the
light-hearted, middle-grade fiction of Andrew Clements and Tommy
Greenwald, and Malala Yousafzai's autobiography for young readers,
I Am Malala. He also responds to stories that take young people as
their primary subjects in such novels as Sapphire's Push and films
including Battle Royale and Cooties. Though ranging widely in their
accounts of young life, such stories betray a mounting sense of
crisis in education around the world, especially in terms of equity
(the extent to which students from diverse backgrounds have fair
chances of receiving quality education) and empowerment (the extent
to which diverse students are encouraged to gain strength,
confidence, and selfhood as learners). Drawing particular attention
to the influence of neoliberal initiatives on school experience,
this book considers what it means when learning and success are
measured more and more by entrepreneurship, competitive
individualism, and marketplace gains. Attentive to the ways in
which power structures, institutional routines, school spaces, and
social relations operate in the contemporary school story, The
School Story offers provocative insights into a genre that speaks
profoundly to the increasingly precarious position of education in
the twenty-first century.
Although reading can be regarded as an isolated and private
endeavor, the white space in the margins of a printed book or the
comments section at the end of an online article can provide a
welcomed space for interaction. Annotation and marginalia share
similar meanings: a reader's contribution to a text, which might
consist of alphabetic, image, and video content. While it has
always been more common to think of this strategy in the context of
a student and a textbook, it is being more widely used through
online communications, such as commenting on, "liking," and sharing
social media posts. The behaviors of readers as they engage with a
text says a lot about their involvement, interest, and intentions.
Marginalia in Modern Learning Contexts is a collection of
innovative research on the methods and applications of interaction
between readers and texts through digital means such as commenting
or physical annotation such as writing in the margins of a book and
how these strategies can be applied in educational settings. While
highlighting topics including social annotation, teacher education,
and technological expertise, this book is ideally designed for
educators, administrators, academicians, researchers, and students
seeking current research on digital and physical annotation methods
and strategies and their applications in educational environments.
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