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Halloween Jack-o’-Lantern Pumpkins Trick-or-Treating Witches Ghosts Goblins Salem witch trials “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” “The Tell-Tale Heart” Frankenstein Baba Yaga Dracula Masquerade Ball Mummies Ghost Stories

In Pioneer’s ongoing series of blogs here, on curricular resources for parents, families, and teachers during COVID-19, this one focuses on: Introducing high school students to great medical innovations from Massachusetts.

  Cotton Mather, Smallpox Inoculation, Boston, MA, 1721 Samuel Adams & John Hancock, First Medical Society, Boston, MA, 1781 Harvard Medical School, Early Medical School, Boston, MA, 1782 Massachusetts General Hospital/Ether Dome, Teaching Hospital, Boston, MA, 1811 William T.G. Morton & Dr....

Understanding the enduring public and private benefit that great inventors and their contraptions have made to our civilization is to better appreciate the connections between human necessity, creativity, and ingenuity. Yet, in American K-12 education very little focus is placed on studying who America’s great inventors were and the central role they’ve played in shaping our republic of gadgets. We’re offering a variety of links on the topic for parents, teachers, and schoolchildren to enjoy and better realize authentic innovators.

According to the Brookings Institution research, teaching great fiction is declining across America’s K-12 education system, so we’re offering resources to help parents, teachers, and schoolchildren to better appreciate great American writers and the places where they wrote.

  Washington Irving’s House, Sunnyside, Tarrytown, NY James Fenimore Cooper’s House, Otsego Hall, Cooperstown, NY (burned 1852) Edgar Allan Poe’s House, Baltimore, MD Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s House, Cambridge, MA The Old Manse, home to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Concord, MA...

Understanding enduring public and private architecture is a key way to learn about art, ideas, and how they harmonize with our democracy. Yet, Massachusetts buildings are often never discussed in K-12 education. We’re offering a variety of links about outstanding houses and architecture across the Bay State for parents, teachers, and schoolchildren to enjoy, visit, and better appreciate, including:

Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA   House of the Seven Gables, Salem, MA   Historic Deerfield Village, Deerfield, MA   Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA   King’s Chapel, Boston, MA   Old North Church, the North End, Boston   Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters, Boston  ...

The Sacred Cod of Massachusetts, State House, Boston, MA Massasoit Statue, Plymouth, MA Pilgrim Monument, Provincetown, MA The Puritan, Springfield, MA Statue of Anne Hutchinson, State House, Boston The Salem Witch Trials Memorial, Salem, MA The Minute Man, Concord, MA James Otis,...

In Pioneer’s ongoing series of blogs on curricular resources for parents, families, and teachers during COVID-19, this one focuses on: Introducing K-12 schoolchildren to great works of art.