#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

Journey back to Ancient India! 🇮🇳 Do you know which Mauryan Emperor renounced war after the Battle of Kalinga? ⚔️☮️

#IndianHistory #AncientIndia #Ashoka #HistoryFacts #Education #SocialStudies #HistoryQuiz #Learning #UPSCPrep #5SecondDaily

In honor of Syria's Independence Day, we're highlighting two powerful documentaries for teaching about Syria. Introduce your students to Syrian history and culture with The Neighborhood Storyteller and The Music of Strangers + our free teaching resources. Learn more: https://journeysinfilm.org/articles/teach-about-syria-with-film/

#Syria #EvacuationDay #GlobalEducation #SocialStudies #SocialStudiesTeacher #Education #Edutooters #Histodons #History #Homeschooling @education @edutooters

Our curriculum guide for The Way Home introduces students to South Korean culture, including Confucianism. Plus classroom-ready lesson plans about cross-cultural understanding, economics, ELA, social studies, math, media literacy, science, visual arts & visual literacy.

https://journeysinfilm.org/product/the-way-home/

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#Economics #ELA #EnglishLanguageArts #Korea #KoreanCulture #Mathematics #MediaLiteracy #Mutism #ScienceEducation #SocialEmotionalLearning #SocialStudies #VisualArts #VisualLiteracy
@education @edutooters @mathematics