Learning Ventures
Gary Parker Schoales B.A. The College of William and Mary and M.A. Boston College has taught American and European history for forty years in public and private schools in the United States and Europe. He is the author of Justice and Dissent: Ready-to-Use Materials for Recreating Five Great Trials in American History, Great American Cities: Boston in the Colonial Period, Disillusioned America: The 1970s, America’s Turn to the Right: The 1980s, Rulers, Rebels and Rogues, Despots, Diplomats and Dreamers, Treason on Trial: America History, and Treason on Trial: European History.
He has made numerous presentations for the European Council of International Schools and the National Council for the Social Studies. His resources focus on active learning lessons which challenge students by allowing them to:
- Practice general skills including research and writing
- Practice cooperative learning
- Develop problem-solving skills
- Engage in synthesizing skills
- Develop empathic skills
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The Renaissance Social Class Structure and Daily Life
$4.00Divisions based on religion, birthright, income, occupation, education, talent, and political power have always existed in societies. These divisions are referred to as social classes. One can...$4.00 -
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War Crimes: The Thirty Years’ War: Europe’s First World War
$6.00The Thirty Years’ War refers to a series of wars that ravaged the European continent from 1618-1648. It began as a religious struggle, spawned from the Protestant Reformation, over the “Peace of...$6.00 -
RENAISSANCE ALUM MONOPOLY GAME
$5.00Alum is a transparent mineral salt essential to the manufacturing of fast, vivid dyes. It is also used in glass-making and tanning of animal hides. Up until 1460 nearly all European supplies of alum...$5.00 -
Vulnerable and Fearful: Could you survive in 14th Century France?
$4.00The 14th century provides us with two opposing images: on the one hand a dazzling time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry and exquisitely illuminated books and tapestries; on the other...$4.00 -
American Revolutionary War 1775-1783: A Lesson in Military History
$4.00It took eight years of bitter fighting for Americans to win their independence from England. Most U.S. history courses concentrate on the causes that led Americans to seek independence, and then...$4.00 -
RIGHT AND WRONG IN PURITAN BOSTON
$4.00In this activity students play the part of the Puritan General Court deciding on several cases of people in their tight-knit religious community who had allegedly broken the law and deserved to be...$4.00 -
Paul Revere, William Dawes or Samuel Prescott
$4.00Who actually warned the countryside on April 18, 1775 that “the Regulars were coming?” Generations of school children heard, and in many cases memorized, Wadsworth’s Poem The Midnight Ride of Paul...$4.00 -
Could you survive in Puritan Boston? Board Game
$4.00A group of wealthy Puritans, including John Winthrop, set up the Massachusetts Bay Company and asked the English King for permission to found a colony in New England. The King agreed and granted the...$4.00 -
Summit: The Treaty of Paris 1898
$5.00This is the fourth lesson of four about American wars and the treaties that settled those conflicts. We tend to think of peace negotiations as taking place after the end of a war, but in most cases...$5.00 -
Summit: The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildalgo 1848
$5.00This is the second lesson of four about American wars and the treaties that settled those conflicts. We tend to think of peace negotiations as taking place after the end of a war, but in most cases...$5.00 -
Summit: The Treaty of Ghent 1814: Recreating a Pivotal Treaty
$5.00This is the first lesson of four about American wars and the treaties that settled those conflicts. We tend to think of peace negotiations as taking place after the end of a war, but in most cases...$5.00