Teaching Anthropology

APRIL 13, 2024

Examples of VMPs range from setting up a display in a local museum called “Primates in Motion”, writing a grant proposal for a specific archaeological site, creating a fund raising campaign for an endangered primate species, creating an interactive display on the evolution of a Pliocene hominin (see Fukuzawa & Boyd, 2016; Fukuzawa, 2018).

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Archaeology Anthropology Museum Pedagogy 264

NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Want to connect with fellow classroom teachers and museum educators? Sessions will be led by dynamic classroom teachers and museum educators. Looking for fresh ways to teach about the American Revolution? Looking for advice on how to navigate teaching inclusive history during this time of divisive rhetoric? Why should you attend RevEd?

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Museum Education Museum K-12 American History 130

Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Colonial archaeologies denigrate non-Western societies to the status of static yet living museums from which the nature of the past might be inferred. The unchanged and living museum like character has been used in legitimizing the colonial rule over its subjects.

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Archaeology Museum Cultures Economics 130

Anthropology.net

MAY 15, 2024

Here, seventy years ago, Ukrainian researchers excavated pivotal insights into the enigmatic Yamnaya culture—a nomadic pastoralist society that emerged approximately 5,000 years ago.

Cultures 93

Cultures Archaeology Museum Research 93

Moler's Musing

APRIL 20, 2024

Then we wrapped up our unit on Revolution and Reform with a Summative Assessment of creating a virtual museum exhibit sharing the things they learned. I gave students one class period to complete this museum exhibit. Te perfect option was a virtual museum exhibit. To end the week, we began a new unit on the Civil War.

Geography 89

Geography Museum Local History Social Studies 89

Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2024

© South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/Eurac/Samadelli/Staschitz. Reproduced by permission of the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology. Details of the Iceman's sixty-one carbon pigment tattoos (after Samadelli et al., 2015: fig.

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Archaeology Museum Cultures Research 98

Anthropology.net

MAY 11, 2024

Archaeologists from the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence , in collaboration with partners from Serbian museums, have unearthed a remarkable discovery: a previously unknown Late Neolithic settlement nestled near the Tamiš River in Northeast Serbia. The deep black angular anomalies indicate a large number of burnt houses.

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Museum Archaeology Artifacts Cultures 52

NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

I remember when I was a little girl, you could still go to the museum and see the Native American remains before the governor ordered the museum to cover them up.” Perhaps there are some out there who might think public history is better left to local museums or genealogical societies alone.

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Oral History Public History History Museum 100

Society for Classical Studies

APRIL 18, 2024

In addition to Harvard's own museums and libraries, visitors can take advantage of greater Boston's rich dining, entertainment, and cultural resources, including the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Boston Public Library, all easily reached by the MBTA subway from Harvard Square.

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Museum Library History Cultures 52

Anthropology.net

MAY 9, 2024

Museum Object Number: NA11611 Image Number: 146713, 19495 Mirrors: Portals to the Otherworld The ancient Maya's mirrors 2 were not mere tools for personal grooming; they were intricate pieces woven into the tapestry of spiritual practices. Pyrite Mosaic Mirror from Guatemala.

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Artifacts Museum 98

Teaching Anthropology

JUNE 12, 2023

London Anthropology day, 30 th June 2023, British Museum Are you fascinated by different cultures? Curious about human evolution? Or looking for a broad and exciting degree? Discover what anthropology is all about by popping along to the British Musuem for London Anthropology Day.

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Anthropology Museum Humanities Cultures 130

Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

A new field trip offering spotlights local contemporary history, promotes self-efficacy and urges secondary students to imagine a more equitable future

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Museum History 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Issiah, 9, completes a worksheet at the Read to Succeed summer program sponsored by the Mississippi Children’s Museum. That need for help is where organizations like the Mississippi Children’s Museum step in. Connie Williams-May, a Jackson teacher, works with students at a reading camp sponsored by the Mississippi Children’s Museum.

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Museum Elementary School Public School Teaching 87

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

Pandemic closures prompted hundreds of museums, art galleries and zoos around the world to launch virtual field trips in the last year. But a program offered through a museum in Utah sought to offer a different kind of virtual science field trip. Subscribe today! They see that this is a real place,” said Larson.

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Museum Archaeology Middle School History 129

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Using the same fossil material, curators and paleoanthropologists commissioned this bust , “The Neanderthal Man of La Chapelle-aux-Saints,” for the American Museum of Natural History in 1915. Before the 20th century, only scattered bones of Neanderthals had been discovered.

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Museum Humanities History Library 141

Women's History Network

APRIL 21, 2024

Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On A free one-day conference at People’s History Museum, Manchester Friday 28 June 2024 Keynote speakers: Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal, and Hilary Wainwright 2024 marks the forty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the seminal socialist-feminist text Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism. (..)

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Museum History 52

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Milo’s Museum By Zetta Elliott Illustrated by Purple Wong A story that introduces readers to the mis-representation (and absence) of people of color in museums and how to take action, in collaboration with family and friends.

Museum 110

Museum Civic Engagement Civics History 110

The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Over the past decade, researchers, museum professionals and educators have started to explore the use of virtual and augmented reality in relation to Holocaust education and memory. It’s intended for larger museum, school and community spaces. Credit: The Rowan University Virtual Reality Lab.

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Museum Teaching Primary Sources Human Rights 126

Society for Classical Studies

MAY 1, 2024

Paine College’s Gilbert-Lambuth Memorial Chapel, off Druid Park Avenue in Augusta, Georgia, 30901 Dedicated by the Georgia Historical Society, the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, Paine College, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Historical Marker Dedication: John Wesley Gilbert (c.1863

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Museum History 52

Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

A groundbreaking study 1 led by researchers at the Nagoya University Museum in Japan offers fresh insights into the cultural evolution of Homo sapiens during their dispersal across Eurasia roughly 50,000 to 40,000 years ago.

Cultures 105

Cultures Museum Humanities History 105

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

He has written for and consulted with museums and galleries, and was co-curator of the acclaimed exhibition Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Dr. Ramsey has lectured on music nationally and internationally.

History 52

History Museum American History Leadership 52

Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Boas criticized the use of EVOLUTIONARY STAGES as the basis for organizing museum displays, arguing that exhibits should display artifacts in the context of specific cultures. Most societies are not relativist: they view their own ways as good, other people's as bad, inferior, or immoral a form of ETHNOCENTRISM.

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Cultures Anthropology Artifacts Museum 100

ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. Maybe I could work in a museum or a library. I also explored possibly working in curation or some kind of a museum setting, but always found myself coming back to teaching.

History 112

History Museum Geography Social Studies 112

Women's History Network

JANUARY 14, 2024

Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On Friday 28 June 2024 People’s History Museum, Manchester Keynote speakers: Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal, and Hilary Wainwright 2024 marks the 45th anniversary of the publication of the seminal socialist-feminist text, Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism.

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Museum History 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Other times students went on field trips to museums where art educators explained paintings and sculptures. But it would likely take years of accumulated art knowledge – and dozens of museum visits and theater performances – to see reading comprehension improve. The arts programming itself ranged a lot.

Teaching 145

Teaching Museum Elementary School Critical Thinking 145

Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Led by Patrick Schmidt and Ewa Dutkiewicz, an interdisciplinary team of scientists from New York University, the University of Tübingen, and the National Museums in Berlin embarked on a groundbreaking study, published in Science Advances. Their focus?

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Archaeology Museum Research 52

Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

That same year, another team, led by Berkeley’s Allan Wilson, reported DNA from a museum specimen of a quagga, a zebra-like creature that went extinct in the late 1800s. But because his 1984 paper appeared in a journal published in East Germany, the research did not reach global scientists or publics. They found none.

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Research Anthropology Museum Humanities 112

Strange Maps

MARCH 1, 2024

Mosaic from the Bardo National Museum in Tunis. Ulysses tied to the mast of his ship, so he can hear the seductive song of the Sirens, while his shipmates have their ears plugged with wax – a scene set in the Lofoten archipelago of northern Norway, according to Felice Vinci. Credit : Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0

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Archaeology Museum Cultures Tradition 142

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 17, 2023

According to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, these ancient human relatives possessed distinctive physical traits such as larger noses, angled cheekbones, and sturdy physiques. A model of a Neanderthal male on display at the Natural History Museum in London. Will Oliver/PA Images/Getty Images.

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Museum K-12 Heritage Humanities 52

Civics for All of US

JANUARY 11, 2024

Teaching Presidential Elections with the National Archives Katie Munn Thu, 01/11/2024 - 16:02 Body Join education specialists from several Presidential Libraries and Museums for this professional development program for educators on teaching elections with the records of the National Archives.

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Archiving Teaching Civics Museum 52

Anthropology.net

MAY 7, 2024

A golden figure from the 7th century found at the Avar cemetery in Rákóczifalva, Hungary Damjanich János Museum, Szolnok This discrepancy suggests a patrilocal system, wherein women relocated to their husbands' communities after marriage.

Ancestry 52

Ancestry Museum History Research 52

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Professor Lindbloom works collaboratively with the National Indigenous Residential Museum of Canada to support its education efforts and museum exhibit expansion. Research interests include social movements, social justice and cultural genocide.

Sociology 44

Sociology Museum Political Science Anthropology 44

NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Army Heritage and Education Center (4 times) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the Musicians Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee, the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, and the Museum of History and Innovation in Seattle, Washington have made these colloquia special.

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Primary Sources Archiving Library Museum 100

ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

Or if a child is fascinated with, say, dinosaurs or trees, AI can provide parents and educators with prompts for further learning or perhaps connect them to the nearest natural history museum or arborist.

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K-12 Education Museum Library 129

Strange Maps

JULY 11, 2023

Earth, in Stockholm, on Earth — more precisely in Cosmonova, the cinema theatre of Sweden’s National Museum of Natural History. km) from the Globe, just outside Stockholm City Museum and is no more than 9.8 Earth is at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, 4.7 in (25 cm) in diameter. km) from the Globe. in, 18 cm).

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Museum History Cultures 52

Rosie the History Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

As a history teacher with a background in museum work, my biggest goal is for my students to learn to curate their knowledge to be able to share it with others. Smithsonian Learning Lab Last year, I attended the Museum Computer Network Conference to present on my work as the Education Advisor with Girl Museum.

History 52

History Primary Sources Museum Artifacts 52

Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

In 2016, Ko was honored by the National Women’s History Museum for success and leadership in business. For further reading, visit jacl.org , the National Women’s History Museum , or the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. Jerry Yang is a Taiwanese American computer programmer who founded Yahoo!

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Heritage Teaching Ancestry Museum 59