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'Time warp' takes students to Native American past to search for solutions for the future

  • Written by Eric M. Anderman, Professor of Educational Psychology and Quantitative Research, Evaluation, and Measurement, The Ohio State University
imageStudents become more emotionally engaged with history when it's presented in an interactive way, research shows.SDI Productions via Getty Images

The eyes of the fifth graders in Ms. Evans’ class widened as they saw a dazzling light on the classroom smartboard and the phrase, “Let’s do the Time Warp!”

Ms. Evans, who teaches at...

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