Category: Forum

Teaching literacy through critical exploration

 Any ideas on how literacy and reading can be done through critical exploration?

Read more »
Category: Forum

Student Projects

Hi- I’m curious about kinds of projects others have had students do during or at the end of a critical exploration to help them push/clarify their thinking. Some examples of what I’m thinking about are: Assuming the role of a …

Read more »
Category: Forum

100-Year-Old Photo Blog — Mostly U. S. History — Great for Literature Too

There is another great resource at:  http://www.shorpy.com/ The site includes thousands of mostly black and white photographs in high-resolution digital form.  They are arranged in galleries like: Civil War Dust Bowl Japanese American Relocation Kids (this includes child labor images) …

Read more »
Category: Forum

North America – Exploration, Great Online Resource

Here’s a great website for primary sources about the exploration of North America: http://www.americanjourneys.org This is some of what they say about themselves: American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas …

Read more »
Category: Classroom Teaching, Critical Exploration

“What Do You Notice?”

Within the approach of critical exploration, we often begin teaching about a subject matter by creating an encounter with a carefully chosen object of study that is drawn from or somehow embodies the subject matter we want to teach. The object of study is a primary source —

Read more »