#socialstudies — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🎒🏞️ The Smithsonian traces backpack #design from a two-million-year-old practice to Ötzi’s hazel-and-board frame around 3300 BCE, then follows improvements through a #CivilWar cavalry officer’s patented canvas-and-metal pack, a #Duluth #canoe-hauling design, #aluminum-frame #mountaineering models, and the nylon #JanSport that made the #backpack a school staple. Roughly 450 million are sold annually.

👉 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/weve-been-strapping-cargo-backs-millions-years-backpack-innovation-took-off-around-civil-war-180989280/

#backpack #history #invention #hiking #science #socialstudies #engineering #innovation #industrialdesign #school #outdoors #otzi

In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?"

10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz.

Joel got a reply:

#CharlieBrown #CharlesMSchulz #SocialStudies #CivicStudies

In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?"

10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz.

Joel got a reply:

#CharlieBrown #CharlesMSchulz #SocialStudies #CivicStudies

In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?"

10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz.

Joel got a reply:

#CharlieBrown #CharlesMSchulz #SocialStudies #CivicStudies

In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?"

10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz.

Joel got a reply:

#CharlieBrown #CharlesMSchulz #SocialStudies #CivicStudies

In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?"

10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz.

Joel got a reply:

#CharlieBrown #CharlesMSchulz #SocialStudies #CivicStudies

We know that educators who relied on the The World Factbook as a reference for teaching geography are reeling at the news that it has been taken offline.

We've put together a collection of other free, online resources that can help fill that gap, along with our best regional geography lessons (which are also free!)

Take a look and please share this with your educator friends.

https://journeysinfilm.org/teach-world-geography-with-film/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=World+Fact+Book&utm_content=link

#WorldFactBook #CIAWorldFactBook #Geography #Education #Edutooters #Homeschooling #Teaching #Teachers #TeachingResources #SocialStudies #MiddleSchool

We recommend Landfill Harmonic for Classical Music Month. Follow the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a Paraguayan youth group that plays instruments made entirely out of upcycled garbage, in a true story that combines the power of music and the power of recycling!

Our Landfill Harmonic Curriculum Guide is great for collaborative project-based learning, with lessons for elementary and middle/high school that span Community Service, Environmental Science, Language Arts, Music, and Social Studies,

Landfill Harmonic is a great choice to teach for Classical Music Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Earth Month, and all year round.

https://journeysinfilm.org/product/landfill-harmonic/

#ClassicalMusicMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth #EarthMonth #Education #Edutooters #Homeschooling #ServiceLearning #EnvironmentalStudies #LanguageArts #MusicEducation #Music #SocialStudies #Documentary #Recycling #Upcycling #ClimateChange @edutooters @education