#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

Plan ahead to teach with film for Civic Learning Week March 9-13! Boost student engagement with award-winning films to bring civics to life and inspire civic participation. For grades 5-12 plus adult/higher ed.

We've updated our Civic Engagement Lesson Collection with new teaching resources for films from around the world, including And So It Begins, Dark Money, Majority Rules, Resisterhood, and The Crisis Scientists.

⭐ This collection includes films that are also great to teach for Women's History Month: And So It Begins, Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down, He Named Me Malala, Resisterhood and The Neighborhood Storyteller.

Check out our newest classroom-ready civics lesson plans!

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/civics-and-civic-engagement-lessons/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Civic+Learning+Week&utm_term=Plan+Ahead&utm_content=Link

#Education #Edutooters #Homeschooling #Civics #CivicLearningWeek #CivicEducation #SocialStudies #Movies #Activism #Democracy #CommunityEducation