More Teacher Testimonials: “I just had the most amazing experience with my 6th-grade earth science kids. Thank you so much for the workshop and all the feedback. It has been so helpful and so revolutionary for me. I’m curious about …
Why does Critical Explorers search for primary materials — and develop curricula around those materials — as part of our work with teachers and students? What kinds of materials does this work require, and what makes it different from what …
Critical Explorers Teaching & Curriculum Sourcebook The Critical Explorers Teaching and Curriculum Sourcebook is an interactive guide to experiencing, understanding, and teaching Critical Explorers curriculum. It allows educators to practice and review listening and questioning strategies, as well as CE …
“The value of recalling past plagues was the simple fact of their being past. … Looking backwards was a relief from a present dominated by the epidemic, and from the plague’s warped temporality: the interruption of civic and liturgical rhythms …
Much curriculum tends to be static: It prescribes what students should notice and what they should think. How can educators create curriculum that changes as students and teachers engage it — curriculum that engages students and all their varied observations and ideas? …
(Creating Reconstructions) The primary texts of ancient history, even in translation, can be difficult for students to read and comprehend. When writing styles, vocabularies, or cultural references have changed, primary documents only a few centuries or decades old can seem almost as inaccessible. How can we help students make sense of these sources? …
(Developing Characters) Here at Critical Explorers, we’ve temporarily paused work on publishing to the website the remaining sections of the Slavery and Reconstruction resources in order to take advantage of an opportunity further to develop our soon-to-be-published Ancient Greece investigation. …