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Gamilaroi cultural retreat
Our team were welcomed onto Gamilaroi land for our lab retreat. We had a fantastic time meeting the elders and learning about country.
We also had the opportunity to visit sites like Terry Hie Hie, and another cultural site (no images were take...
Post · September 11, 2023
Emerging Viruses symposium Oxford
On the 6th September 2023 in the beautiful surroundings of St Edmund Hall, Oxford we held our latest iteration of the Emerging Viruses symposia that had been on hiatus during the COVID years. A wide array of quality speakers from Keynotes (John Ox...
Post · September 10, 2023
The challenge of balancing the competing pressures of enabling children’s agency and the practitioners’ role in challenging gender stereotypes?
This blog post provides an overview of the literature that examines the competing roles that practitioners have in supporting the development of children's agency, whilst also challenging their reinforcement of gender stereotypes.
It aims to prov...
Post · September 10, 2023
Independence Day Break up Activity
We've all heard that the Declaration was like a breakup letter from the colonies to Great Britain. But what makes a good break up letter? What audiences did the founders have in mind when they wrote theirs? This activity helps students think about...
Post · September 09, 2023
Prioritizing Historical Events -The Comatose Uncle Exercise
This is a great first or second day assignment that I use in my modern U.S. history survey, which runs from Reconstruction to the present. It helps students understand that more was going on in the periods we are discussing than we could possibly ...
Post · September 09, 2023
Teaching Sojourner Truth's Most Famous Speech
Sojourner Truth was born enslaved in a Dutch community in New York state c.1797 as Isabella Baumfree. She escaped with her infant daughter in 1826. She sued her owner to get her son & was the 1st Black woman to win such a case, which was part of n...
Post · September 09, 2023
Teaching Secession with Primary Documents
We begin class by going over the 1860 electoral college map, pointing out that Lincoln would have won the electoral college even if he had run against a single candidate instead of three. And as the race was largely Lincoln vs. Douglas in the nort...
Post · September 09, 2023
Competing pressures of supporting agency and challenging gender stereotypes - Poster
Post · September 06, 2023
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