1/ “Your #MediaLiteracy is tied to your historical thinking & analysis skills. Making that connection more explicit for students & taking these skills outside the classroom & into your phone that you carry at all times is important." - History teacher Bonnie Belshe #EduSky #SSchat

Media Literacy Lunch and Learn...

Watching Trump’s Venezuela adventurism, I keep thinking about how often U.S. power gets sold as “necessary” and “for their own good,” right up until the bill comes due.
I turned that into a teacher-friendly lesson using Library of Congress political cartoons. It stays usable in class while still asking hard questions. https://peterpappas.com/2026/01/the-constable-or-the-conqueror-debating-u-s-intervention.html #HistoryTeacher #HISTED #SSchat #History #HistoryMatters #Cartoon #politics #Trump #comics

Turn your students into historical detectives. I just posted a way to use AI to create custom mystery activities where every student holds a clue and the whole class has to argue their way to an explanation. https://peterpappas.com/2025/12/design-your-own-historical-mysteries-with-ai.html #HistoryTeacher #EdTech #TeachingWithAI #HISTED #SSchat

Exciting! Looking forward to listening to this. #sschat #TeachWorldHistory #ITeachSocialStudies

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I enjoyed this short podcast on the meaning of "Asia." Worthwhile of folks who #TeachWorldHistory or geography. #sschat #iteachsocialstudies www.historians.org/podcast/big-...

Big Asia

Crowdsourcing teachers: If you had the chance to teach a World History K-5 class, what would be your must teach topics for any time period? I'm especially interested in hearing about Asia and South America. I feel pretty confident with my Africa list, but by all means feel free to make sure I have not missed anything. TIA.

#Histodons #teachers #sschat #history #SocialStudies #homeschool

Just started Antonia Fraser's The Warrior Queen. She asserts the USA is the lone culture to **not** have a historical Warrior Queen we can look to w pride. I'm sitting here trying to think of 1 woman fr ~400yrs of #history who could qualify as a national power and force to be reckoned with. #histodons #sschat

You can hide #Milton but not #sschat.

#LaborDay is my favorite holiday! Here is a post that I wrote for history teachers back in 2016 about the intersection of race and labor rights in the U.S. #sschat http://christophermartell.blogspot.com/2016/01/teaching-intersection-of-race-and-labor.html