Whether based on an interest or to enhance your study of a subject, making your own game is fun, challenging, and skill building!
Let’s take a look at what intersectional history is, how it contributes to social change, how to build young historians who help to change our understanding of history, and some strategies for teaching intersectional history.
Research is a fundamental skill that is often overlooked. I started teaching Research Bootcamps, and then expanding to a Historical Thinking, Research, and Writing Bootcamp, because solid research knowledge and skills makes every assignment and project easier and more efficient, provides credible evidence and critical thought to support conclusions, and makes the quality of writing or project
The question is, what do we do with problematic authors? Here's how I approach this issue.
We are currently in an unexpected time of stress and isolation. Even my own children, who are usually steadfast and unfazed by much, are feeling the impact of world-wide panic and the prospect of a fast-spreading and strong virus shutting down almost everything for an undetermined amount of time. We’ve had times of big crisis before. Weather-related events, natural disasters, pandemics,
Note: This article will be updated regularly to reflect new information and resources. I had an online interaction recently with a first-year history teacher, who posted some activities for teaching Native American history that included turning First Nation people into cartoonish pop culture figurines and building tipis in the classroom. When I pointed out that these activities were
!["e;Let Them Play"e; is Only Half the Story (Part Two)](https://samanthamatalonecook.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_3314.jpg?quality=100.3016082509160 ""e;Let Them Play"e; is Only Half the Story (Part Two)")
In part one of “Let Them Play is Only Half the Story,” I discussed how years of research have shown us that the optimal learning environments are ones in which there is a balance between guided and self-directed learning, and also the role adults play in the education and socialization of younger children. Part one of this examination of play showed that when we ask “Is play enough?” the
One of the most common responses homeschoolers get to questions regarding the education of their young children is “Let them play!” and while this advice is absolutely spot-on, it misses a few important concepts. It’s only half of a very important story. I could cite hundreds of studies that support play as the most foundational activity for creating complex neural pathways in the
Picture on left: Communication begins with Morse Code on handmade Telegraph Machines. Picture on Right: Da Vinci's version of an Archimedean Screw at the Da Vinci Machines exhibit. We are in an especially unique time, politically and socially. In the last couple of years in the United States (though other countries in the world are undoubtedly going through their own struggles and strife)
In our house, we are in the middle-to-end of our second adolescent cocooning, the period of time when kids seem to lose their enthusiasm and the desire to leave their room. They huddle in, listen to music, play video games, can seem apathetic towards activities they used to love, and may struggle with even the oldest of friendships. This is also a period in which parents tend to worry and