Contemporary Social Studies 2010
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Ning Brought to you by Search Sign Up Sign In Teaching Digital History using documents , images , maps and online tools Main My Page Members Photos Videos Blogs Forum All Discussions My Discussions Add Contemporary Social Studies 2010 Posted by John Lee on December 6, 2010 at 3:03pm in Visual historical inquiry View Discussions Social studies is a big and sometimes unwieldy subject . Given with the massive body of content in the field and differentiation among pedagogical approaches , social studies educators have the space to be creative and expressive . There are certainly some agreed upon aims in social studies . In fact , there is something approaching consensus that social studies should aim to prepare young people for citizenship . But , what that process entails is a point of
A collection of Japanese pottery dating between the 17th to 19th centuries has been unearthed in southern Cebu in the Philippines. The shards of large dishes recovered from the excavation site would serve as “evidence” on the occurrence of the trading activity back in the 16th century, Nogami said. Nogami identified the shards by drawing [...]
The final resting place of more than 4,600 Civil War fatalies have been identified in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. Today, the 478-acre expanse of greenery and statuary covering the cemetery’s rolling hills is believed to be the final resting place of about 8,000 Civil War veterans. A team of volunteers and Green-Wood staff [...]
A ancient hunting camp dating back between 3,500 to 9,000 years has been found along the South Nation River in Ontario, Canada. Thousands of stone items have been found at what Thibaudeau said was an obvious portage around a waterfall and rapids on the South Nation River. The spot is believed to have been a [...]
Unfortunately due to time and weather I haven't been able to get out to have a look at the Bush close up, but here are some pics taken from Stokes Bay, about a mile away.
The remains of five people have been found under the Royal Chapel at Stirling Castle in Scotland, including a woman “Amazon” killed by a warhammer during the Wars of Independence. Peter Yeoman, Historic Scotland’s head of cultural heritage, said yesterday that the new discoveries about the grim fate of the lady and the four other [...]
Construction has unearthed the remains of a medieval village in Runcorn, England. A cobbled street and pottery dating back to the 13th century have been unearthed, near Lodge Farm, off Highgate Close in Norton. Post holes of timber framed houses were identified by archeologists who have spent three weeks excavating the 700 sq m site, [...]
Between 1520 and 1650 Spain’s economy took a dive. This was previously attributed to the belief that too much imported silver from the New World entered circulation as currency, but new analysis has revealed that this was not the case. Between the 16th and 18th centuries, the Spanish extracted as much as 300 tons of [...]
The remains of six Maya individuals sacrificed in the 9th and 10th centuries have been found at the bottom of a cenote in the Yucatan peninsula. Bone remains of at least six individuals – “probably sacrificed during a couple of intense periods of water shortages between 900-1,200 years ago” – as well as ceramic objects, [...]
LiveScience has posted an interesting article about anomalocaridids, giant shrimp-like creatures which, for a few million years, were once the largest predators in the ocean. Fossils suggested these ancient marine predators grew to about 2 feet (0.6 meters) long. Prior studies also suggested they died out at the end of the Cambrian. Now, extraordinarily well-preserved [...]
The Guardian has posted an interesting article about metal detecting in England and how the artifacts found by metal detector enthusiasts is changing our understanding of how England was invaded and settled. MacGregor recently presented the successful Radio 4 series, A History of the World in 100 Objects. The report shows that 2010 was an [...]
A robot armed with a camera has been sent deep inside the Great Pyramid of Giza in hopes of shedding light on why tunnels, doors and secret chambers were built inside the structure. Images sent back by the camera have revealed hieroglyphs written in red paint and lines in the stone that could be marks [...]
The perfect gift for someone who has it all: the severed head of the patron said of genital disease is set to hit the auction block this weekend. The skull is allegedly that of St Vitalis of Assisi, an Italian Benedictine monk from the 14th century. It belonged to an Anglo-Irish family from County Louth, [...]
Researchers have come up with a cool use for 3D printing technology – making duplicates of ancient cuneiform tablets. Tablets can be copied using latex molds, but this runs the risk of damaging the original, Owen said. The most important recent technological development in the field was digital photography; this allowed millions of ancient artifacts [...]
The ruins of a village which dates back 2,500 years has been found in southwest China. Researchers with the Yunnan Institute of Heritage and Archeology found ruins of 20 houses, ranging from 15 to 25 square meters each and built in four rows, in Chengjiang County, said Jiang Zhilong, an archeologist with the excavation team. [...]
17 pyramids and more than 1,000 tombs have been located by satellite during a new survey of Egypt. The astonishing results have been confirmed by archaeologists with picks and shovels, who have located two of the pyramids found from space. “I could see the data as it was emerging, but for me the ‘aha’ moment [...]
Analysis of Nubian mummies from along the Nile suggests that the plague of schistosomiasis may have been spread due to irrigation techniques in place at the time they lived. About 25 percent of mummies in the study dated to about 1,500 years ago were found to have Schistosoma mansoni, a species of schistosomiasis associated with [...]
New research has revealed the the Nazis invested a lot of time and effort into teaching dogs to talk. The incredible findings show Nazi officials recruited so-called educated dogs from all over Germany and trained them to ‘speak’ and tap out signals using their paws. One dog was said to have uttered the words ‘Mein [...]
Broken bones and wooden clubs have been found by a German river bank, indicating the site of an ancient Bronze Age battle. They found remains of around 100 human bodies, of which eight had lesions to their bones. Most of the bodies, but not all, appeared to be young men. The injuries included skull damage [...]
New research is suggesting that the Inca used llama droppings to fertilize their crops, allowing them to grow at high altitudes. In the June issue of Antiquity, paleoecologist Alex Chepstow-Lusty of the Institut Français d’Etudes Andines in Lima, presents findings from a lake sediment core showing that farmers near Cuzco began raising large numbers of [...]
The skull believed to belong to Lisa Cherardini Del Giocondo, thought to be the model for the Mona Lisa, has been located under a convent in Italy. The idea is to reconstruct her face using her real skull and compare it to the painting to see if they match. The skull was found 1.5 metres [...]
Archaeologists have discovered a 12,000-year-old iron oxide mine in Chile that is the oldest known organized mining operation in the Americas. An estimated 700 cubic meters and 2,000 tons of rock were extracted from the mine. Carbon dates for charcoal and shells found in the mine suggest it was used continuously from around 12,000 years [...]
The anchor from the Queen Anne’s Revenge is set to be recovered from its resting place off the coast of North Carolina. The anchor is believed to be the second biggest on the site, measuring about 13 feet (4 metres) long with arms that are eight feet (2.4 metres) wide and weighing about 3,000 pounds [...]
Workers have restored the infamous Auschwitz sign which was stolen and damaged during the theft 17 months ago. Thieves had cut up the black wrought-iron sign into its three constituent words in order to fit it into their getaway car after taking it down from the main gate. Following a nationwide search, police found the [...]
An Aboriginal burial site has turned up remains that are 10,000 years old, although the site itself may be much older. “Scientists had previously dated part of these ancient watercourses to 25 thousand years ago, when that part of the Lachlan River, now extinct, was flourishing with water,” Mr Purcell said. “Who knows, it’s buried [...]
A CT scan been performed on a tiny huntsman spider trapped in amber 49 million years ago. A mysterious ancient specimen at the Berlin Natural History Museum has finally been identified thanks to the latest computer imaging technology (see video above). The spider, which was trapped in amber 49 million years ago, can barely be [...]