World History and Geography

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World History and Geography

• 3rd Muskegon Workshop
• Finding ways to make the C.E.s work in your
  classroom

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Methods and Materials

• Helping your students telescope
• Temporally
• Spatially
• Primary documents
• Making connections to literature
• Artifact collections
• Student made
• Teacher made--making coins, making calendars,
  making/comparing tools

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Primary Documents

• From Pericles funeral oration to the Magna Carta
  to The Declaration of the Rights of Man to
  Lockes Two Treatise on Government to the
  Declaration of Independence to Lincolns
  Gettysburg Address--temporally-speaking.

4
Maps for Migration

• Historical and climatological--changes in climate
  and impact
• Islam to the Moors
• Vikings
• Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa

5
Agricultural Revolution

• From feeding yourself to what are you eating?
• Paleo to Neo (not the Matrix)
• Green Revolution
• Cultural submission and change
• Super-Size Me
• The Fast Food Nation
• Chinese Buffets

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Climate Change

• Building in the desert or finding a different
  place to live?
• Characteristics of where early civilizations
  developed
• Where modern people live and how they create
  change, both good and bad, in their environment
  (science, history, economics, geography,
  sociology, anthropology, ethics, government,
  civics, language arts)

7
Architecture

• Ziggurats
• Great Wall of China
• Japanese Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples
• Temple of the Sun
• Great Pyramid of Giza
• Parthenon

8
Architecture continued

• Maachu Picchu
• Mesa Verde cliffdwellers
• Castles
• Cathedrals
• Roman Colosseum
• Secrets of Lost Empires--PBS

9
Architecture continued

• Bridges
• Incan rope bridges
• Roman arch in action
• London Bridge
• Golden Gate
• Tampa Bay Bridge
• Charleston Bridge
• Toothpick bridges, ice cream stick bridges,
  string bridges, Erector set bridges, Lego Bridges.

10
Building a calendar out of parts

• Comparison activity building the best from all
  the choices
• Mayan
• Chinese
• Hebrew
• Julian
• Gregorian

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Language Development

• Pictographs road signs
• texting
• Sumerian
• Hieroglyphics
• Hebrew
• Phoenician

12
Language continued

• Greek
• Latin
• English
• French
• German
• Chinese
• Spanish
• Russian

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Art

• Sculpture
• Painting and drawing
• Human form
• Chinese
• landscape

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Technology

• Daniel Boorstin books The Seekers, The
  Discoverers, The Creators.
• Black History Month

15
Religion From the sources, if you dare

• Confuscius
• Buddha
• Taoism
• Zoroastrianism
• Islam--Quran
• Torah--Talmud, Pentateuch
• Bible

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Creation Stories

• Iroquois
• Apache
• Zuni
• Mayan
• Biblical
• Greek

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War

• Sun Tzu
• Herodotus
• Von Clausewitz
• Wright

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Student Statistical Construction

• I used this method/strategy for years
• Non-techalmanacs
• Tech CIA World Fact Book, U.N., countries
  embassy websites
• Spreadsheet software
• Class presentation

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Resources

• http//www.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/pericles-fu
  neralspeech.html
• http//www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_document
  s/magna_carta/translation.html
• http//www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/rightsof.htm
• http//www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1690locke-sel.h
  tml

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Resources

• http//lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collIdrbc3f
  ileNamerbc0001_2004pe76546page.db
• http//www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/
• http//www.theislamproject.org/education/B04_Sprea
  dofIslam.htm
• http//www.mnh.si.edu/vikings/voyage/index.html

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Resources

• http//exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/students/cur
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• http//books.google.com/books?idyNFN1OpnkBkCdqf
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