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“Can You See Anything?” Walk Into Tut’s Tomb With Howard Carter
On November 26, 1922, Howard Carter chipped a hole in a sealed doorway, held up a candle, and waited for his eyes to adjust. Behind him, Lord Carnarvon asked if he could see anything. “Yes, wonderful things.” Now your students can take the same walk: down sixteen steps, through a robber’s tunnel, past two black-and-gold…
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Nine Pharaohs Walk Into a Classroom
Back in the Flash days I had a whole set of “Famous Pharaohs” activities: a mouseover page, a wheel game, and a match game with a teaser that had kids shouting out the answer before the picture ever showed up. Flash is gone. The pharaohs aren’t. They’ve moved over to Dueling History. Meet the Pharaohs…
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Every Game in One Place: The Dueling History Toolbox
My mother-in-law gave me a book called How to Teach Real Good. It was a joke. I keep it on the shelf anyway, because the title says the only thing I have ever been sure of: a class that is doing something remembers more than a class that is being told something. p> That is…

