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I am a middle school teacher with about a 10 years of experience in the classroom teaching Language Arts, History, and Humanities. I believe that by providing them with real connections between the curriculum and the world around us, students experience more ownership and authenticity in their learning. The answers to the perennial questions about why history, or any subject, is important can be found in the headlines, galleries, and voices that will be featured on this page.

Monday, August 2, 2010

NY Times Interactive Features are amazing...


The Times has amazing interactive features, these three come to mind:

I use this as a September 11th lesson that teaches itself and also naturally leads into a discussion of why we save artifacts from history:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/10/nyregion/20080911-hangar-panos.html



Geography of a Recession:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/03/us/20090303_LEONHARDT.html


Anatomy of an Inaugural Speech:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/17/washington/20090117_ADDRESSES.html


Here is one that was inspired by the recent discovery of a ship at the World Trade Center site:


http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/07/22/opinion/20100722_Opinion_Archaeology.html?ref=archaeology_and_anthropology

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