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?

Museum Education 130

Museum Education Museum K-12 American History 130

Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

Some of our topics include: Security, Self Determination, and Empire: The Grand Alliance, 1941-1945 at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, LA. Controversy, Consensus, and Compromise in the American Founding, at Pima Air & Space Museum in Tuscon, AZ. Bush Presidential Library & Museum in College Station, TX.

Historic Sites 52

Historic Sites Museum American History Professional Development 52

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.

Archaeology 130

Archaeology Museum Cultures Economics 130

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).

Archaeology 264

Archaeology Anthropology Museum Pedagogy 264

ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

During a recent unit on creating a meaningful curriculum, I brought my students to visit a local museum to meet with the museum curriculum director and curator of collections to learn how they create programming for children. They evaluated the museum’s education program and worked together to design a new curriculum.

High School 124

High School Museum Education History 124

Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

Many museums offer online resources that you can use instead. For example, the Museum of Chinese in America in Chinatown, Manhattan, NY, hosts a MOCAKIDS Storytime program on Zoom every 2nd and 4th Thursday at 4 p.m. The museum also has some of its collections online for students to browse at mocanyc.org.

Heritage 98

Heritage Museum Social Studies Artifacts 98

Living Geography

AUGUST 28, 2024

Some personal highlights of our brief visit: - Premier Inn Piccadilly - book a Premier Plus room for a room at the top of the hotel for city/Peak District views - a nice bar area and helpful staff - Afflecks and the Manchester Shop - a warren of independent shops offering vinyl, music, clothing and all sorts of original gifts, including 'Northerner' (..)

Museum 52

Museum 52

Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

THE STRAIGHT LINE LEADS TO THE DOWNFALL OF OUR CIVILISATION I dare say that the lines I trace with my feet on the pavement walking to the museum are more important than the lines I will find there hanging on the walls inside.

Museum 52

Museum Humanities 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.

Oral History 100

Oral History Public History History Museum 100

Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 19, 2024

Paul Getty Museum is pleased to announce the research theme for the 2025 – 2026 Getty Scholars Program at the Villa , “Religious Experience in Antiquity.” Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California, 2017.126. Applications for residential scholar grants are due on 1 October 2024 by 5pm PDT.

Museum 52

Museum Cultures Research 52

Zinn Education Project

JULY 15, 2024

Schedule Prairie View A&M University Gathering, Sept. 15, 5:00-6:30 pm ET: Freedom Teaching in the Movement Roundtable Discussion (in-person and livestreamed ) Nov. 16, 10:00 am-12:00 pm ET: Organizing Tradition Roundtable Discussion Workshop (in-person only) Nov.

Museum 52

Museum Human Rights Tradition History 52

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.

Archaeology 78

Archaeology Museum Cultures Research 78

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.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Museum Humanities Cultures 130

TeachThought

JULY 12, 2024

Curate cultural artifacts and ‘local memory’ Today, museums do the work of ‘curating,’ but that’s a crude way to preserve the cultural artifacts that matter. Used closed communities (Facebook Groups, for example) that, while not fully open, are still school-wide. There are ways. Why can’t schools do this?

Artifacts 200

Artifacts Project-Based Learning Museum Cultures 200

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

Museum 40

Museum History 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

In these studies, researchers typically observed parents and children interacting in a university lab, a school, a museum or at home and kept track of how often parents mentioned numbers or shapes. Ordinary sentences that included numbers counted. An example could be: “Hand me three potato chips.”

Research 119

Research Museum Education Tutoring 119

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.

Museum 52

Museum Archaeology Artifacts Cultures 52

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.

Museum 122

Museum Archaeology Middle School History 122

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.

Museum 52

Museum Library History Cultures 52

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.

Museum 120

Museum Teaching Primary Sources Human Rights 120

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.

Museum 75

Museum Elementary School Public School Teaching 75

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.

Museum 144

Museum Humanities History Library 144

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 111

Museum Civic Engagement Civics History 111

Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

The National Museum of African American History and Culture offers the digital resource, Juneteenth: Celebration of Resilience. That’s another one of many examples. Also recommended: Juneteenth Observances Promote ‘Absolute Equality’ by Coshandra Dillard in Learning for Justice.

Teaching 145

Teaching American History Museum Library 145

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 58

Cultures Archaeology Museum Research 58

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. (..)

Museum 52

Museum History 52

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 117

History Museum Geography Social Studies 117

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.

Cultures 100

Cultures Anthropology Artifacts Museum 100

Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 9, 2024

Also welcome are pedagogical approaches to studying these sensitive topics (both in the classroom and in public-facing spaces such as museums). Keywords: 1.

Archaeology 52

Archaeology Museum Tradition History 52

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

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 143

Teaching Museum Elementary School Critical Thinking 143

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.

Research 127

Research Anthropology Museum Humanities 127

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.

Museum 52

Museum History 52

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

Museum 52

Museum History 52

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?

Archaeology 52

Archaeology Museum Research 52

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We are limited by our geographic location to the sights/museums within driving distance. The National Museums of Scotland has a “ Discover Ancient Egypt ” virtual experience that introduces students to Ancient Egypt through a combination of virtual tours and games. Field trips are time-consuming to organize and plan.

Museum 162

Museum 162

Life and Landscapes

AUGUST 5, 2024

SOUTHERN INDIANA AGAIN Navigation on the Ohio River James Howard and the Howard Steamboat Museum Surrounding Cannelton Deep Wilderness in Indiana, Branchville, and Leopold Into Oil Creek Geologic Expressions The “Indian” Wars Dhan and Suzan and the Ice Age Mammals!

Museum 52

Museum History 52