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
The U.S. Navy has undertaken a project to create 3D maps of the USS Cumberland and the CSS Florida, two Civil War shipwrecks. USS Cumberland was lost on March 8, 1862, during the Battle of Hampton Roads, where she served in the U.S. Navy’s North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. She sank after being rammed by the [...]
Archaeologists in Canada have been working to excavate the Whitewater POW camp in Manitoba’s Riding Mountain National Park. “I found four guys living who were interned at Whitewater and all four of them said it was awesome,” said Myers. In part, soldiers were just delighted to be off the front lines. But, said Myers, “Canada [...]
An RAF Spitfire has been pulled from the Irish peat bog it crashed into 70 years ago. Six machine guns and about 1,000 rounds of ammunition were also discovered by archaeologists searching the Inishowen Peninsula in Co Donegal. The British fighter plane was piloted by an American, Roland “Bud” Wolf, who parachuted safely from the [...]
Laboratory equipment from the 18th century which was used by Joseph Black has been unearthed during a dig at the University of Edinburgh. “While there will have been some clearance before the building was demolished, it seems a lot of materials were simply left there, perhaps because they had become out of date. “We very [...]
Five years after the project began, the Avenue of Sphinxes has been restored. The 2,700 metre long avenue of sphinxes was built during the reign of Pharaoh Nectanebo I of the 30th dynasty. It replaced one built in the 18th dynasty, by Queen Hatshepsut (1502-1482 BC), as recorded on the walls of her red chapel [...]
Nearly 8,000-year-old BBQ leftovers have been found in the Netherlands. Stone Age barbecue consumers first went for the bone marrow and then for the ribs, suggest the leftovers of an outdoor 7,700-year-old meaty feast described in the July issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science. The remains, found in the valley of the River Tjonger, [...]
Hundreds of painted limestone blocks once used in the construction of a temple have been uncovered in Egypt. Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass said that early studies on site revealed that these blocks were dismantled and reused in the construction of edifices during the Late Ancient Egyptian period and the Ptolemaic era. He [...]
Artifacts dating back 2,000 years have been found on the island of Cebu. Bersales said in a statement that they had uncovered six burials and 14 earthenware jars and some 3,000 accessioned artifacts believed to be dated back from the Philippine Iron Age, which is between 500 BC and AD 900. Bersales said that it [...]
Three mid-nineteenth century homes lived in by Irish immigrants have been excavated, revealing all manner of artifacts. The archaeological team identified and excavated privies – pits that served as a receptacle for family trash and waste. Among the objects recovered: writing slates (the kind used by young children to practice the alphabet) and lead pencils, doll [...]
A tiny camera has been dropped inside the sealed tomb of a Maya ruler who was buried 1,500 years ago. The tomb was discovered in 1999 inside a pyramid among the ruins of the Mayan city of Palenque in the hills of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. But until now archeologists had not been [...]
The 18,000-year-old cave art in Lascaux cave is under under attack by mold and fungus. “The cave was completely disturbed,” said Clottes, 78. “In 1947 alone, they dug out 600 cubic metres of sediment to make an entrance and concrete path and installed lighting for the public.” Six hundred cubic metres (22,000 cubic feet) is [...]
Subway construction in Istanbul has uncovered a ship which dates back to the 5th century A.D. “The width of the wreck is about five meters. This is one gunwale. There is probably another one which has not yet been uncovered. Some of the amphoras on top [of the cargo] are broken but those in the [...]
Researchers have tested the contents of Ötzi the Iceman’s stomach, discovering what his last meal was. Scientists previously analyzed the contents of Ötzi’s lower intestine and determined that he ate a meal of grains along with possibly cooked red deer and goat meat up to 30 hours before his death. But attempts using an endoscopic [...]
17 bodies found in a medieval well in England may be evidence of early Jewish persecution. Seven skeletons were successfully tested and five of them had a DNA sequence suggesting they were likely to be members of a single Jewish family. DNA expert Dr Ian Barnes, who carried out the tests, said: “This is a [...]
A solar boat designed to carry King Khufu to the afterlife has been removed from its limestone tomb. In 2008, the Japanese team from Waseda University led by archaeologist Sakuji Yoshimura inserted a tiny camera through a hole in the chamber’s limestone ceiling to transmit video images of the boat onto a small TV monitor [...]
A Thracian tomb containing six leaves of a golden wreath and bronze figurines has been found in Bulgaria. “The man buried must have been a prominent and wealthy Thracian public figure. As these golden and bronze jewellery and figurines are put only in the graves of the richest,” archaeologist and historian Stamen Stanev from Popovo [...]
A place I would love to explore: Underneath the port city of Acre in Israel lies a completely intact Crusader-era city. Etched in plaster on one wall was a coat of arms — graffiti left by a medieval traveler. Nearby was a main street of cobblestones and a row of shops that once sold clay figurines and [...]
I found this to be very exciting news when it was first announced. The image of a mammoth was found on a Florida beach, carved into a mastodon bone. It was dated back at least 13,000 years, which makes it the oldest artwork yet found in the Western Hemisphere. However, there was some division on [...]
This morning a German website posted up an interesting gallery of Nazi photographs, some showing POWs and others featuring the Führer. The question was asked: who was the photographer who had access to both prison camps and Hitler himself? Hours later the question was answered. [Thnx Kese] As Tuesday dawned, what we knew about an anonymous [...]
Construction has unearthed the remains of a Roman bath complex in York, England. He said: “We know very little of the layout of the civilian town of Eboracum, as Roman York was called. Confirming the location of the baths gives us another important piece of the puzzle.” He said they had been surprised by the [...]
A rare medieval badge depicting one of St. Ursula’s companions was uncovered by a metal detecting enthusiast in Lancashire. The badge will now be put on display in the British Museum. King, a member of the South Ribble metal detecting club, found the silver plaque at the end of April in a field some miles [...]
Hundreds of buildings thought to have housed refugees has been found near Hadrian’s Wall in Scotland. A major dig close to Hadrian’s Wall has revealed traces of a suspected refugee camp which would have housed tribespeople fleeing south from a breakdown of society north of the imperial border in the third century AD. Archaeologists were [...]
The epitaph on a Roman tombstone for a gladiator named Diodorus blames a referee’s bad call for his death. “After breaking my opponent Demetrius I did not kill him immediately,” the inscription reads. “Fate and the cunning treachery of the summa rudis killed me.” The term summa rudis can be understood to refer to a [...]