{"id":5054,"date":"2017-03-08T21:22:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T21:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=5054"},"modified":"2017-05-17T16:08:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:08:33","slug":"history-in-your-pocket-coins-as-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/history-in-your-pocket-coins-as-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;History in your pocket&#8221;: Coins as sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Overview<\/h2>\n<p>This great idea was developed from an idea shared by <a class=\"link-complex\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/histHartford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"user noopener noreferrer\" data-user-name=\"histHartford\">@<span class=\"link-complex-target\">histHartford<\/span><\/a>. This photo comes from Mr. Atkinson (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AtkoHistory\">@AtkoHistory<\/a>) and was shared to the #historyteacher hashtag on Twitter by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/EllenWicks\">@EllenWicks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5055\" src=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/-157\" alt=\"C6Ygg62WgAA4syO.jpg-large\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/-157 2048w, https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/-157-300x225. 300w, https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/-157-1024x768. 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Taking it further<\/h2>\n<p>Students should be encouraged to bring in coins and banknotes from their foreign travels at the start of the Autumn term.<\/p>\n<p>This concept also ties in well with the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/design-destroy-a-banknote\/\">Where are the women? Design\u00a0\/ Destroy a Banknote<\/a>&#8221; exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview This great idea was developed from an idea shared by @histHartford. This photo comes from Mr. Atkinson (@AtkoHistory) and was shared to the #historyteacher hashtag on Twitter by @EllenWicks: Taking it further Students should be encouraged to bring in coins and banknotes from their foreign travels at the start of the Autumn term. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471],"tags":[],"class_list":["bg-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5097,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions\/5097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}