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The Newark Museum: A Gem
I grew up in a town less than five minutes from Newark, New Jersey. All my life I’ve known that Newark is the home of so many wonderful things: Branchbrook Park and it’s cherry blossoms, the Prudential Center, food that is to die for, and it was the city my immigrant Italian ancestors called home…
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Product Review: Emily Ley Simplified Teacher Planner
**Emily Ley does not sponsor me, nor will I receive any compensation if you choose to purchase. However, if you choose to use any of the links below, you’ll get $10 off and I’ll get rewards points.** Besides loving history and teaching, if you know me well you know that I also love shopping. Normally,…
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Ancient Greek Women & Gender Norms
I am very excited about this lesson I created for my 5th grade and I wanted to share it with you. As a world history teacher in addition to teaching American history, I find it difficult in many cases to find ways to teach Ancient history from different lessons. Ancient Greece, however, is turning out…
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Race & Judicial Review
After our study of Marbury v. Madison, we have always had students look at judicial review through a modern lens. For many years, students studied and argued federal Supreme Court cases related to children and education. They could choose to work with cases such as Tinker v. DesMoines or NJ v. TLO. This year, however,…
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African & American Folktales
World history in 5th grade took an (even more) exiting turn prior to leaving for spring break. Having just finished our Egypt research papers, we decided to travel to countries in East and West Africa as well as to the Carribean and Southern United States to explore how and why histories intersect through folktales. I…
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Review: Museum of the American Revolution
The Museum of the American Revolution obviously had many different types of clientele in mind when they designed their exhibits. There is something for the Revolutionary War expert and novice, for the young and the young at heart. I highly recommend spending your day in this very special place. Here’s why.
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Teaching Black History Month
Black history is American history. Period, end of story. Black History Month is our opportunity to highlight and dig deeper into a history that is overlooked in textbooks and curriculum.
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Student Surveys
Just before the Thanksgiving holiday (which feels like forever ago!), our school sat down together to work on what we call our “Professional Growth Process,” which was designed as a way for us to work together with others in our community to foster our growth as teachers. The professional growth process was carefully and thoughtfully…
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App Review: Goose Chase
There’s nothing more fun than a field trip. Or a scavenger hunt. Or a scavenger hunt-field trip! Each year we take our 5th-grade students to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to view their Ancient Egypt exhibit. The idea behind the visit is to pique their interest in order to motivate them to…
