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Showing posts with label social studies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social studies. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Teach Better by Becoming a Great Storyteller
Become a GREAT storyteller.
It can lead to success on the standardized test.
Years ago, long before I started teaching history, I overheard two seniors talking. The year before, they had taken the 11th grade U.S. history state test. Now they were discussing their high scores.
“Excuse me,” I said, curious as heck. “Why do you suppose your scores were so high?”
“Mr. Smith!” they said, smiling.
“Fine,” I said. “But what did Mr. Smith DO?”
“He tells stories!” they said, smiling.
It’s as simple as that. Mr. Smith was a great storyteller. His stories wrapped everything up: people and events, terms and concepts, causes and effects.
Are you teaching the Civil War?
Take a look at our FREE lesson on Lincoln.
Free Lesson Reminder: “Pakistan: On the brink?” It has nuclear weapons. It has Osama bin Laden. And President Musharraf’s government is STILL in chaos.
This free lesson is more relevant than ever!
It can lead to success on the standardized test.
Years ago, long before I started teaching history, I overheard two seniors talking. The year before, they had taken the 11th grade U.S. history state test. Now they were discussing their high scores.
“Excuse me,” I said, curious as heck. “Why do you suppose your scores were so high?”
“Mr. Smith!” they said, smiling.
“Fine,” I said. “But what did Mr. Smith DO?”
“He tells stories!” they said, smiling.
It’s as simple as that. Mr. Smith was a great storyteller. His stories wrapped everything up: people and events, terms and concepts, causes and effects.
Are you teaching the Civil War?
Take a look at our FREE lesson on Lincoln.
Free Lesson Reminder: “Pakistan: On the brink?” It has nuclear weapons. It has Osama bin Laden. And President Musharraf’s government is STILL in chaos.
This free lesson is more relevant than ever!
Free Lesson Plans>>Pills from Puerto Rico
Are your pills made in Puerto Rico?
You betcha. Thanks to Operation Bootstrap, Puerto Rico manufactures 90% of the pills sold in the U.S. (Operation Bootstrap, by the way, just happens to appear on nearly every standardized test.)
So take a look at our brand-new lesson about Operation Bootstrap, the pharmaceutical industry, and Barceloneta, the town that Viagra built.
Using Puerto Rico as your model, teaching economic terms (GDP, per capita income, literacy rate) will be a breeze, a tropical breeze.
Are you teaching Puerto Rico? The Caribbean?
Then take a look at our FREE lesson:
“Are your pills made in Puerto Rico?”
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From World Regions - The Caribbean (BZ-4712)
Available at a special introduction price of $24.95, it provides a bazillion lessons on the geography, history, culture, and economics of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republican, Jamaica and the Bahamas.
You betcha. Thanks to Operation Bootstrap, Puerto Rico manufactures 90% of the pills sold in the U.S. (Operation Bootstrap, by the way, just happens to appear on nearly every standardized test.)
So take a look at our brand-new lesson about Operation Bootstrap, the pharmaceutical industry, and Barceloneta, the town that Viagra built.
Using Puerto Rico as your model, teaching economic terms (GDP, per capita income, literacy rate) will be a breeze, a tropical breeze.
Are you teaching Puerto Rico? The Caribbean?
Then take a look at our FREE lesson:
“Are your pills made in Puerto Rico?”
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From World Regions - The Caribbean (BZ-4712)
Available at a special introduction price of $24.95, it provides a bazillion lessons on the geography, history, culture, and economics of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republican, Jamaica and the Bahamas.
Free Lesson Plan - Ibn Battuta
In 1325, Ibn Battuta was 21 years old and living in Tangiers, Morocco. That year, he went on the hajj, a pilgrimage to Mecca.
He traveled for 30 years, visiting 44 countries, and covering 75,000 miles. The only medieval traveler to visit every country of the Islamic empire, he kept a diary that chronicled his run-ins with princes and pirates.
Robbed, bribed, kidnapped, and nearly drowned, Ibn Battuta made maps that were the most accurate of his day.
(p.s. Ibn Battuta lived at the same time as Marco Polo.)
Are you teaching medieval history?
Islam in the Middle Ages?
Take a look at our FREE lesson on Ibn Battuta.
(from Famous People in the Middle Ages)
He traveled for 30 years, visiting 44 countries, and covering 75,000 miles. The only medieval traveler to visit every country of the Islamic empire, he kept a diary that chronicled his run-ins with princes and pirates.
Robbed, bribed, kidnapped, and nearly drowned, Ibn Battuta made maps that were the most accurate of his day.
(p.s. Ibn Battuta lived at the same time as Marco Polo.)
Are you teaching medieval history?
Islam in the Middle Ages?
Take a look at our FREE lesson on Ibn Battuta.
(from Famous People in the Middle Ages)
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
How to teach World History using Hip-Hop
| One day, we were talking to a teacher in upstate New York. Her students were musically inclined... and really into hip-hop. Yeah, yeah, we know. Hip-hop is notorious for its bad language, but not this one! We’ve found one hip-hop video that is OUTSTANDING for teaching genocide, a topic that’s difficult for anybody, much less a young person, to comprehend. Outstanding for several reasons: 1. It begins with the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Not many people know about that – unless you teach World War I. 2. It is an overview of all cases of genocide, 1965 to the present 3. It answers the question that appears on most standardized tests: “What do Armenia, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Darfur have in common?” Answer: They are all examples of genocide. Are you teaching World War I? Want see how we tackle the Armenian Genocide? Then take a look at this FREE lesson! p.s. The hip-hop video is on page 12. |
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