history

Final exams usually conjure up images of students sitting at their desks, pencils in hand, darkening bubbles or writing in a blue book. Students in Melissa Catarra’s 10th grade U.S. history course were instead given a final assignment which asked them to examine the events they studied from different perspectives.
Here is one part of the [...]

Students in the upper school history elective “Political and Social Changes” held a Skype discussion with four Israeli students and their teacher on February 11. The Israeli group is from the Ironi Hey High School in Haifa, a public high school enrolling 1600 students from grades 7 to 12.
Organized by Beaver’s Kader Adjout (Global History [...]

Global History and Social Studies Department Chair Kader Adjout has been using technology in his Middle East senior elective to connect his class with students from Afghanistan. He uses a private social network (a Ning) to work with teachers and students in Afghanistan, and his students post to a blog which receives responses from the [...]

As part of the revised history curriculum this year, students in Mike Adamowicz’s 8th grade history class recently completed a unit studying the history, culture, and environment of the Arabian Peninsula. They were given several opportunities and ways to demonstrate their knowledge of the material. Here are two examples of student work from his class.
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Rodney Yeoh’s 11th grade world history classes have been studying the Cold War. In addition to textbooks, Mr. Yeoh regularly brings in materials from the web to supplement the discussions. In a recent blog post, he asks students to comment on a New York Times article about a “new” Cold War. The post and a [...]