Wandering and Wondering

Two highlights of LoC STI today- The first was getting to visit the Geography and Maps Reading Room at the LoC. Mike, one of the room's librarians, had pulled several really interesting maps for us to look at. I was excited to get to see an original print of the map of US at the …

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Dream Trips

As our final project for 7th grade World History, students created a dream trip. They could choose any four stops and visit three sites at each stop. They created postcards in either PPT or Prezi to briefly describe the sites and explain their choices. (Let it not be said that my students won't know how …

Seeing the Connections

Prior to a quiz on the early and mid-1800s (primarily focused on events leading to the Civil War) in 8th grade history, I asked students to make conceptual maps of the people, places, and ideas that we had studied. I broke students into groups of three or four and gave each group a large piece …