{"id":74973,"date":"2024-07-17T11:41:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T15:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/?page_id=74973"},"modified":"2024-09-16T12:08:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T16:08:32","slug":"teaching-toolkits","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/teaching-learning\/teaching-things\/teaching-toolkits\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Toolkits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>\n\t\tTeaching Things\n\t<\/h3>\n\t<p>offers a range of entry points to bringing material culture into the classroom. In some lesson plans students consider objects alongside the visual and textual sources with which they are more familiar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This section is currently under construction. More toolkits and objects will be added soon.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>\n\t\tToolkits\n\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Antietam-featured-1.jpg\" alt=\"Antietam featured\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"749\" width=\"1727\" title=\"Antietam featured\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n<h5>\n\t\tPerspectives on the Battle of Antietam\n\t<\/h5>\n\t<p>The Battle of Antietam, fought in Maryland in September 1862, was the single deadliest day of the American Civil War, with more than twenty-two thousand casualties.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/resource\/perspectives-on-the-battle-of-antietam\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAccess the Toolkit\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PEC27.jpg\" alt=\"PEC27\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1621\" width=\"2169\" title=\"PEC27\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n<h5>\n\t\tObjects of Trade and Transport in the Ancient Mediterranean\n\t<\/h5>\n\t<p>This object lesson explores the trade, transport, perceived value, and authenticity of ancient and modern food products.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/resource\/objects-of-trade-and-transport-in-the-ancient-mediterranean\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAccess the Toolkit\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Page-6.png\" alt=\"Camel saddle (tarik or tamzak), Algerian Sahara. Date unknown (probably 20th century). Leather, rawhide, wood, parchment or vellum, wool, silk, tin-plated metal, brass-plated metal, iron, copper alloy, and cheetah skin. 975-32-50\/11927. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, gift of the Estate of Dr. Lloyd Cabot Briggs, 1975, 975-32-50\/11927. Photograph \u00a9 President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1222\" width=\"1000\" title=\"Page 6\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n<h5>\n\t\tSilk Roads and Beyond: Trade, Exchange, and Travel in Ancient and Medieval Afro-Eurasia\n\t<\/h5>\n\t<p>Sericulture-the cultivation of silkworms for the production of silk goods-features prominently in this toolkit. The focus on silk also extends beyond the manufacturing process.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/teaching-learning\/teaching-things\/teaching-toolkits\/silk-roads-and-beyond\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAccess the Toolkit\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n<h4>\n\t\tObject Library\n\t<\/h4>\n\t<p>Objects and images offer a window into the past, providing both context for, and critique of, the history we teach.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/teaching-learning\/teaching-things\/object-library\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tView Objects\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching Things offers a range of entry points to bringing material culture into the classroom. 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