Rome in Plain English
I'm a big fan of Common Craft videos.This is the third year I've done these videos as a mid-unit project with my 7th graders during their unit in Roman History and the project has evolved significantly...
View ArticleMore Christmas Shopping, Still Without a Flux Capacitor
For the second year in a row, I had my 8th graders research 19th Century primary sources and shop for historical Americans from the 1897 Sears-Roebuck Catalog.As usual, the most successful part of this...
View ArticleThe ComfyChair of DESTINY!!! (Still a working title)
For the last five or six years, my wife and I kept a broken-down office chair in the corner of our dining room. It mostly held piles of mail and other, not-quite-ready-to-throw-out debris, until the...
View ArticleGenerating Excitement about the Municipal Budgeting Process. (No, Really!)
I'm a big believer in scouring eBay for things to make my life more interesting. This has led to many interesting and eye-rolling conversations with my wife and several interesting projects in my...
View ArticleThe Mind-Blowingly Awesomest Classroom Activity That I'll Probably Never Be...
1) I love this video: 2) I teach 7th graders Medieval History.3) So I did this: 4) And then this: 5) And then this: Bed of Nails from John Fladd on Vimeo. This went SO WELL!!There is a...
View ArticleAnother Interview that Made Me Happy
Corsets 1 from John Fladd on Vimeo. An interview with Leslie Bellais, a fashion historian with the Wisconsin Historical Society about the history of corsets in America. Ten of my 8th grade girls asked...
View ArticleA Second Interview About Corsets
Discussing Corsets with a Medical Historian from John Fladd on Vimeo. As part of my Sears Catalog/Victorian Christmas Shopping Unit, I was able to interview another expert about corsets - this time,...
View Article2013 Interview with an Archaeologist
Rome Interview 2013 from John Fladd on Vimeo. For the second year running, our 7th graders prepared questions for Classical Archaeologist Leigh Leiberman about Ancient Rome. This year, she was kind...
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