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
-
FLORENTINE GOVERNMENT DURING THE RENAISSANCE
$3.00FLORENTINE GOVERNMENT DURING THE RENAISSANCE Was it a true democratic Republic? In the summer of 1378, the lowest class of woolen workers, known as the “ciompi” because of the wooden clogs they wore, rioted. Why? They were...$3.00 -
Maps of North America Exploration and Settlement: An Activity
$3.00Maps of North America Exploration and Settlement Early maps of European exploration and settlement reveal much about what explorers and colonists knew about what eventually became the English thirteen colonies. Map-making work...$3.00 -
What Caused the Civil War
$3.00What Caused the Civil War The time was 4:30 in the morning; the day was April 12, 1861. Cannons from the mainland began to spew fire and lob shells into Fort Sumter--at this early hour just faintly visible on the horizon. America’s terrible Civil...$3.00 -
Washington D.C. Peace Convention: February 4, 1861
$4.00Washington D.C. Peace Convention February 4, 1861 Could the Civil War have been prevented? On February 4, 1861 a “peace convention,” called by the Virginia legislature, assembled at the Willard Hotel in Washington D.C., the same day that...$4.00 -
Civil War Generals Most Effective or the Least Effective?
$4.00At the start of the American Civil War both the Union and the Confederacy an immediate problem of enlisting men into their respective armies and providing them with competent commanders. Many of the senior officers in both armies had their training...$4.00 -
Civil War Game
$4.00Most Civil War historians would agree that in order to win the war the North needed to carry the fight into the South. But the Southern commanders, especially General Robert E. Lee, believed that taking the fight into the North was the path to victory...$4.00 -
Who Murdered the Princes in the Tower? The Usual Suspects
$4.00This is a lesson to introduce students to the controversy surrounding the brief reign of one of the most vilified kings in English history, Richard III. Was he responsible for the premeditated murder of his nephews Edward V and Richard, the so-called...$4.00 -
A Reformation Mystery: The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre - Who to Blame
$5.00On August 18, 1572 Marguerite de Valois (a Catholic), the sister of French King Charles IX, was wed in Paris to Henry III of Navarre (a Protestant). Their marriage was intended to solidify the provisions of the Peace of St. Germain that ended the Third...$5.00 -
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 identify lower, middle and upper classes, defined by...$4.00 -
$4.00
-
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 came from Asia transported in Genoese ships. But in...$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 hand, an age of ferocity, suffering and spiritual...$4.00