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= [|EDSITEment] =

What it is!
EDSITEment houses a wealth of lesson plans and information for teaching humanities to grades K-12. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, EDSITEment is a well organized, easily navigatable resource for teachers. Teaching about WWII? Want to know how women contributed? Take a look at [|this lesson]. Want to translate some Hyroglyphs? Not only do they have a solid [|lesson] planned for you, but links to expert sites like [|PBS' Nova] and [|The Metropolitan Art Museum]allow you to enhance and prepare for your lesson in ways that other sites can't. All websites they link are reviewed by EDSITEment to ensure accuracy and validity of information.

Why does it matter to us?
Teachers of all subjects can use this site to get historical ideas for their classes. Continuing with the Pyramids example, math teachers could encourage students to build sugar cube (or some other material) pyramids, using the historical background found on this site to add dept to the lesson. Science teachers could begin to show students the science behind anthropology, the use of the scientific method in determining the significance of a particular artifact or site. Dance? Where did your music come from? [|Here]? This site is a wealth of thoroughly researched information that can help all grade levels and subject areas.