This week, we learned …
… we’ll read Zora Neale Hurston’s story of Cudjo Lewis, the last survivor of slave ships to the United States. Read of the week!

Photograph by Emma Langdon Roche, courtesy Wikimedia
Use our interactive timeline to navigate the history of slavery in the U.S.
… a Native American map is reshaping how historians interpret the Lewis & Clark expedition.

Map by Too Né, courtesy We Proceed On
Use our lesson to help students explore different perspectives of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
… turns out this extinct kangaroo rat is not really extinct.

… rocks in Oman may help sequester carbon and save the planet.

Photograph by Thomas J. Abercrombie, National Geographic
How are cement manufacturers working to sequester carbon?
… how architects imagine school design.

How would you design energy-efficient school design?
… night archaeology can reveal our ancient history.

Photograph by Jan van der Crabbens, courtesy Ancient History Encyclopedia. CC BY-SA 3.0
Get some ideas about bringing archaeology into your classroom.
… NASA technology has revealed the possible existence of a missing Dead Sea Scroll.

What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
… Swedish meatballs are Turkish.

Photograph by ReverseOlle, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-SA-4.0
What other tasty treats have had long, strange journeys?
… satellite maps can be abstract art.

Get started mapping landforms with our activity.
… a rhinoceros helped prove humans have been in the Philippines for 700,000 years.

Photograph by Kenneth Garrett, National Geographic
Why do anthropologists say tool-making is one of the characteristics that make us human?
… this ocean path will take you on the longest straight-line journey on Earth. This is a really fun story.
