Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Field Trips & Tours (virtual)

Field Trips & Tours (virtual) Ellis Island Virtual Tour (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov) https://youtu.be/hy-JPTt-iAU Rock Island Arsenal Museum Google Arts & Culture https://artsandculture.google.com United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ushmm.org) 42 Best Free Virtual Field Trips for Kids and Families Who Can't Visit in Person (goodhousekeeping.com) https://accessmars.withgoogle.com/ bald eagle web cam - - Video Search Results (yahoo.com) Social Studies Learning Games • ABCya! Learn | National September 11 Memorial & Museum (911memorial.org) How It's Made @howitsmade8444‧6.87K subscribers‧336 videos How It's Made is a documentary television series that premiered on January 6, 2001 on the Discovery Channel (now known as Discovery Science in Canada, and Science in the UK. The program is produced in the Canadian province of Quebec by Productions MAJ, Inc. and Productions MAJ 2. In the UK youtube.com/channel/UCif74XoikPS8Q1w2EXVFS1w National Palace Museum in Taipei Taiwan 國立故宮博物院 (npm.gov.tw) (1006) Lucas County 4-H - YouTube Virtual Field Trips (22) chocolate factory, pyramids, … ttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbewv05HW9uKZiztEmq5qlg Monterey Bay Aquarium Virtual Tour: A Complete Guide (mamasonvacation.com) Virtual Tour | The White House https://www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/take-virtual-visit-national-park Experience the Night Watch (beleefdenachtwacht.nl) Castle — Google Arts & Culture https://youtu.be/knbWVeEGt5o The National Inventors Hall of Fame

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Virtual Field Trips #museumday May 18th is International Museums Day

 PARADOX OF LIBERTY (monticello.org) 3rd President Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, Virginia.

National World War I Museum and Memorial - Virtual Tour – Joy of Museums Virtual Tours
https://joyofmuseums.com/museums/united-states-of-america/kansas-city-missouri/world-war-i-museum-and-memorial/

International Museums Day is May 18th yearly.

https://icom.museum/en/our-actions/events/international-museum-day/  

https://celebratepicturebooks.com/2022/05/18/may-18-international-museum-day-5/


According to   https://www.calendarlabs.com/holidays/international/international-museum-day.php :

Best Museums in the World

The best museums in the world are popular tourist attractions during the International Museum Day period. This list with some of the best ten museums will also help you determine where to visit during the next Museum Day.

1. The Louvre in Paris, France

2. British Museum in London, UK

3. National Museum of China

4. National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC

5. Vatican Museum, Vatican City

6. National Palace Museum in Taipei Taiwan

7. Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands

8. Museo Nacional Del Prado in Madrid

9. National Gallery, Athens

10. Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY


Thursday, October 22, 2020

North American History - Annotated Bibliography

North American History - Annotated Bibliography

    1 https://www.timelineindex.com/content/select/1433/45,1340,1433  Excellent timeline combined with identification of 437 items.   *Note: when expanding entries, the timeline shifts to other categories.  Return to previous entry before continuing, in order to stay on task and on topic. ** This is not a scholarly source, it links Wikipedia for further research.  Thus, TimeLineIndex is a starting point, but all information needs to be referenced with three sources (that do not reference each other) for accuracy.

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Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Identify (ID): The Peloponnesian War

Explanation:
     A testing method for history students is the ID or "identify" a person or event from history in as little as two sentences. Keep the IDs very concise, and save your time for the longer essay(s). Study for your exam by rewriting these IDs after each lecture ("revision notes") and reviewing them by the "spaced-repetition" method.

Example:
     The Peloponnesian War  (431 B.C. to 404 B.C.) was a series of battles between Sparta and her allies versus Athens and her allies in the region of Greece. The Athenian general and historian, Thucydides, wrote volumes on the Peloponnesian War of which he was an eye-witness until he was exiled. Sparta and her allies won. 
    Grade: With the assumption that an exam would be taken in a proctored room and written out with pen on paper, the order of the sentences would not be editable, but an arrow could be inserted if done neatly.  The above ID example would earn likely lose two to three points for attaching a Thucydides ID in sentence two instead of explaining the cause of the war, the method of warfare, and the resulting significance.= 2/5

Sunday, December 31, 2017

Lunar v. Solar calendars

    The oldest lunar calendars were found in caves in France and Germany. One such lunar "chart" was marks made on an animal bone, and another on the wall of a cave.2,3

    The first recorded change from lunar to solar calendars was made by the Egyptians. The rise of the Sirius above the horizon, just before dawn, indicated when the Nile would flood.1 The solar calendar of 365 days and 6 hours. "Instead of 32 years with the moon, it is 1460 years before Sirius rises again on the first day of the first month."1, 4
Image result for sirius at sunrise in egypt
Sirius 

      Twelve lunar months make up 354 days. The a lunar calendar is eleven days shorter than a solar calendar year. The Muslim calendar rights itself every 32 years. The Babylonians, Roman Republic, and the Jewish calendars add(ed) a month to make up for the shortage. 1
      "The lunar month on the Jewish calendar begins when the first sliver of moon becomes visible after the dark of the moon. In ancient times, the new months used to be determined by observation. When people observed the new moon, they would notify the Sanhedrin. When the Sanhedrin heard testimony from two independent, reliable eyewitnesses that the new moon occurred on a certain date, they would declare the rosh chodesh (first of the month) and send out messengers to tell people when the month began."5 Festivals and religious holidays always occur on the same Jewish calendar day, unlike the civil calendar.5

http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ac06
https://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/oldest-lunar-calendars/
3 Aurignacian Lunar Calendar(image) from source 2
4 https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.ZfCeNQdINfGJ7QpAYVppwgHaHI&w=92&h=105&c=8&rs=1&qlt=90&dpr=1.090909&pid=3.1&rm=2  (image of Sirius)
5 http://www.jewfaq.org/calendar.htm