Last year I started a group at South Valley Jr. High called the "History Geeks". It is an extracurricular group to provide students opportunities to explore historical topics - a field trip to a...
Eric Langhorst, an 8th grade American History teacher in Liberty, Missouri discusses education, technology and history.
Hello. Today's podcast is an update from Speaking of History Podcast #197 when I asked for suggestions on teaching the Constitutional Convention with each student representing a delegate in...
Eric Langhorst, an 8th grade American History teacher in Liberty, Missouri discusses education, technology and history.
Hello. In today's podcast I want to recommend a great resource for your classroom if you teach the American Revolution. David McCullough's 1776 is an amazing book which every history teacher should...
Eric Langhorst, an 8th grade American History teacher in Liberty, Missouri discusses education, technology and history.
Hello. Today is the 200th episode of Speaking of History!
This crazy adventure started on July 7, 2005 as an experiment to see if I could use the hardware and manage the software to post a podcast....
Eric Langhorst, an 8th grade American History teacher in Liberty, Missouri discusses education, technology and history.
Hello. The topic of today's podcast is the upcoming speech President Obama will be making to the students of the United States on September 8th, 2009 (11:00 AM central time) on the Internet and...
Eric Langhorst, an 8th grade American History teacher in Liberty, Missouri discusses education, technology and history.
Hello. We begin our curriculum each year with an awesome topic - the Jamestown settlement. There are a ton of great resources to use when teaching this unit and today in the podcast I discuss six...
Eric Langhorst, an 8th grade American History teacher in Liberty, Missouri discusses education, technology and history.
Hello. We will be starting our unit on the Constitutional Convention in about two months and for the past two years I've had an idea that I think would work well with my students but I have yet to...
Eric Langhorst, an 8th grade American History teacher in Liberty, Missouri discusses education, technology and history.
Hello. Today I would like to describe an activity that I recently did with my 8th grade American history class and I think is a fun way to start off the school year. This past summer I attended a...
Eric Langhorst, an 8th grade American History teacher in Liberty, Missouri discusses education, technology and history.
Hello. Today's podcast is a summary of a professional development workshop I attended this summer at Harvard University. I attended the Project Zero Classroom workshop on the campus of Harvard from...
Eric Langhorst, an 8th grade American History teacher in Liberty, Missouri discusses education, technology and history.
Hello. Today I did something that I've always wanted to do as an 8th grade teacher who starts off each school year by teaching the American Revolution - walk Boston's historic Freedom Trail. The...
Eric Langhorst, an 8th grade American History teacher in Liberty, Missouri discusses education, technology and history.
Hello. I'm a native of Nebraska, enjoy baseball and love museums so I was very excited to visit the Nebraska Major League Baseball Museum in St. Paul, Nebraska on a recent family trip. The museum...
Eric Langhorst, an 8th grade American History teacher in Liberty, Missouri discusses education, technology and history.
Hello. Sometimes you just have to experience something to understand it a little better. For the past 15 years I have taught about western expansion and the how the pioneers and early settlers on the...
Eric Langhorst, an 8th grade American History teacher in Liberty, Missouri discusses education, technology and history.
