Sapiens

APRIL 1, 2025

Charlotte has worked on community museum projects, coordinated decolonizing museum programs, and co-curated an independent art exhibition. Her research explores how archaeology as a discipline has been used in U.S.

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NCHE

APRIL 1, 2025

Eligible applicants can include educational institutions, cultural organizations, historical societies or museums, community or civic groups, libraries, and literacy organizations. These regional grants will help fund projects that expand and explore innovative methods of teaching and learning with Library of Congress materials.

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Women's History Network

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The 33rd annual conference, which will take place on 4-5 September, 2025 will explore and celebrate women in the archives, libraries and museums and the challenge of uncovering their presence. We encourage approaches that foreground marginalised voices and imaginative approaches.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Andersen, Moesgaard Museum “We found no signs of cereal grinding on the stones,” says archaeobotanist Dr. Welmoed Out from Moesgaard Museum. A new study reveals that the stones were not used to grind cereal grains. Credit: Niels H.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Items in museums are often not dated either or from more recent times. It is difficult to find examples of early African iron. Almost all pictures found on the net relate to commercial items, either without a date or the 19th / 20th century.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Holocaust Memorial Museum to research their assigned cluster of non-Jewish victims of Nazi oppression. (i.e. Holocaust Memorial Museum through online access of the collections, students will cite in MLA format their sources. To begin, I asked students to utilize a specific chapter in Nazi Ideology and the Holocaust by The U.S.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 5, 2025

Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellow in 2019. One moment especially stood outat the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, presenter Regina Galustyan looked us in the eyes and said her life depended on us returning home and sharing what we had learned. Their stories brought history to life for my students.

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ASHP CML

APRIL 10, 2025

The shrinking of the NEH comes in addition to cuts to the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Smithsonian, and other organizations that support humanities, cultural and educational institutions, and they follow the new restrictions on projects deemed to promote DEI or gender ideology.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 4, 2015

As manufacturing tools continue to become better, cheaper and more accessible, the Maker Movement is gaining momentum at an unprecedented rate.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 16, 2025

John Lee/National Museum of Denmark, R. More than 100 engraved stones unearthed in Denmark depict images of the sun. The stones, including the two shown here, may have been buried as part of a ritual to bring back the sun after a volcanic eruption, researchers say. Iversen et al/Antiquity 2025 Read more

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2025

Colonial Williamsburg Game: Uncovering Loyalties Museum of the American Revolution Virtual Tour Activity #5 – Allow Students to Become Activity Creators We all know that upper elementary students can be quite creative. Let them partner up with another early finisher and create activities for one another!

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 10, 2025

She has helped to bring together both classicists and scholars of ancient religion in order to address new questions, interrogate acquisition policies within the museum space, and recover the lives of ancient enslaved workers.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Students will analyze pieces from the online gallery provided by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and compare the works in terms of perspective, realism, subject matter, imagery, scale, and the use of space. Image credit: [link] These teachers have provided students with writing scaffolds and exemplars to help them achieve this goal.

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Living Geography

JULY 21, 2024

A new exhibition opens at the Migration Museum in September: on the 12th. It explores the story of migration and how it has built modern Britain. It's called 'All our Stories'.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 12, 2011

Holocaust Museum last year? holocaust Museum I found Mr. Feigl to be extremely articulate and he was able to recall events with clarity and detail. How did you feel about the Neo-Nazi that killed the black security guard at the U.S. Discussed the root of hate in certain people. Where are the original diaries today ? Donated to U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Last summer I participated in the VoxBox Civic Engagement course sponsored by the American Museum of Tort Law, an institution that focuses on civil justice and was developed by the political activist Ralph Nader. Unlike the majority of my peers, I am receiving a robust civics education, but it is largely outside of school.

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

APRIL 17, 2024

A visit to the National Museum of Natural History’s Sant Ocean Hall, whether in-person or online, offers connections for learners of all ages with experts, new ideas, and ways to take action in preserving the environment

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Image credit: The Natural History Museum via Alamy Stock Photo) The Role of the Pinky in Early Tool Use The researchers observed that the pinky finger played a significant role in grasping, particularly in early hominins like A. These findings point to a progressive evolution of dexterity and fine motor skills within early hominins.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 16, 2025

As Alison Sheridan from National Museums Scotland notes: “This is a remarkable example of how archaeology and genetics together can illuminate the lives of ancient people. While male-centered narratives have often dominated discussions of prehistoric societies, this research places women at the heart of Iron Age Britain.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The team matched 3D scanned pottery fragments with physical artifacts, streamlining their study of sherds located in distant museum collections. .” The use of MR also extended to comparative analysis. They envision AI-driven tools in the future that will automatically match fragment shapes, further enhancing artifact analysis.

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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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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?

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Below is the description from Google : Google Expeditions enable teachers to bring students on virtual trips to places like museums, underwater, and outer space. Teachers can bring lessons to life with Google Expeditions and take students on interactive, virtual field trips.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 10, 2025

Protein Clues in the Absence of DNA Pulled from a fishing net and eventually donated to Taiwan’s National Museum of Natural Science, the Penghu 1 jaw retained no usable DNA. But until now, the Denisovans seemed a population defined by the mountains and cold — known from Siberia and the Tibetan Plateau. Then came Penghu 1.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

"We see a lag between when the genetic evidence tells us language capacity was present and when symbolic artifacts appear in the record," notes Ian Tattersall, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History and co-author of the study. This challenges the long-held view that language and symbolism arose in tandem.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

They congregated in Vondelpark, close to the citys famed museums and canals, and also in Oosterpark, where I jogged daily. When I came to Amsterdam as a graduate student in 2012, I was surprised to find the citys parks teeming with vibrant green feathers, red beaks, and bluish tails.

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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. In a museum basement, we huddled over a black-and-white photograph showing pieces of a lower jawbone and its loose teeth. Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 4, 2025

By analyzing 338 distinct knots from archaeological archives and museum collections, they discovered a surprisingly stable repertoire. In a new study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal 1 , researchers from institutions across Europe compiled the most comprehensive cross-cultural knot database to date.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Morphological characterization of a teosinte sample at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in the United States. This race, still cultivated in parts of Brazil and Uruguay, provides a living connection between the region’s agricultural past and present.

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Sapiens

MARCH 17, 2025

This map-shawl , itself inscribed by acts of erasure and extraction, is part of the Victoria and Albert Museums South & South East Asia Collection, where it is attributed to an unknown artist/maker. The sixth erasure overlays a photo of a 19th-century embroidered map-shawl of Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir and Jammu.

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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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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Large-scale digitization projects, such as those undertaken by museums or archives, often prioritize materials based on perceived cultural or historical value. Sometimes, migration is selective, with decisions madeeither by individuals or institutionsabout what is worth saving. But what about the materials that dont make the cut?

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Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester, NY. The West in History and Memory at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. Anthony & Reform at Susan B.

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ACRE

JUNE 19, 2023

Student Exploration Students visiting the museum can take a guided tour of both Hemingway’s studio & the Pheiffer home. Curriculum Guide The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center offers educational programming to all ages! They offer focused tours on a variety of topics including The life and writing of Ernest Hemingway.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 1, 2025

“This research is a landmark project,” said archaeologist David Hurst Thomas of the American Museum of Natural History. The methodology was approved by tribal councils. The interpretation was shaped by cultural context. “It’s the kind of work that should become standard.” ” This is not just about science.

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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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Anthropology.net

MAY 9, 2025

Houston Museum of Natural Science. The Body as Canvas In a dark limestone chamber beneath the Belizean rainforest, past dripping stalactites and ancient footpaths worn by centuries of ritual use, archaeologists have discovered something that has long eluded Mesoamerican scholars: tattooing tools from the Classic Maya world.

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