Those questions, key to survival, can focus student attention on a highly motivating and dangerously overlooked fact: Geography skills can save you from the zombie apocalypse! Use students’ natural desire to survive zombie assaults to motivate study of a complete curriculum based on the National Geography Standards, and then to apply those skills in a […]
The Aftermath of Imperialism explores the long-term effects of imperialism and decolonization in the modern world, a timely subject included in world history courses.
Activities take from 1–3 class periods and touch on a wide range of learning modes ranging from verbal to visual to kinesthetic; for example, in the chapter on revolutionaries, students read about spies, learn to write and decode secret messages, create replicas of important war figures and present biographies to the class, and perform a […]
They complete a variety of written and multimedia team projects such as sightseeing postcards, welcome billboards, and state discovery posters.
Each lesson uses a practical concern to illustrate the development of a concept indicative of civilization: the Agricultural Revolution arises from the need for food surpluses; government, for effective flood control; writing, for accurate tallying of the food supply; written laws, for keeping order in a “city of strangers”; grand architecture, for instilling a sense […]
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