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Jim Morrison: 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.

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Saturday, November 27, 2010

NYT: Masters of Math, From Old Babylon

While I am a bit of a math dunce, this is an amazing article and could be highly valuable for your math class!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/arts/design/27tablets.html

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NYT: Night at the Museum

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/27/opinion/20101127_stevenson.html?hp

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Monday, November 22, 2010

NPR: We Can't Walk Straight

This is an amazing animated story from NPR.org about some experiments from the early 20th century looking into to our inability to walk or drive straight when we do not have a fixed point to guide us.

Outstanding!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/11/03/131050832/a-mystery-why-can-t-we-walk-straight?sc=fb&cc=fp

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NYT: Finding the Right Tool to Tell a War Story

This is an amazing collection of images.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/finding-the-right-tool-to-tell-a-war-story/?hp

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