Teachers can join the incredible Windjammers Education Band for a morning of music they will not soon forget. Through the music of Karl L. King, participants can relive the circus in its heyday, learning how each piece influenced the show and kept things moving along. A full band of circus musicians will break down the pieces into smaller parts, discussing the hows and whys of circus music composition as they go. Material covered can be related to both history and music study, and the workshop will include a lecture, gallery experience, and hands-on activity or lesson plan.

Hands-on lesson plans in art can enrich the teaching of history, mathematics, or language arts. Teachers can create a design for a new coin, a portrait relief, or a figure in the round, and then teach their own students how art plays a part in portraying history, building national pride, and celebrating our heritage. Through firsthand artistic process, teachers and students form a personal connection to concepts, people, and events in history. The workshop will begin with a discussion and an introduction to the sculpture of Augustus Saint-Gaudens and the sculpture process, with an emphasis on the design of coinage. Participants will then proceed to the studio area to begin work. There will be approximately 2 ½ hours of studio time, with an optional viewing of the film, "The Medal Maker: Master Sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser." The film details the complete process of medallic art and can be used in the classroom as a pre- or post-lesson to a class visit to Saint-Gaudens. The workshop will include small group discussions focused on integration of the sculpture process into your current curriculum and the state standards addressed by including sculpture in your lesson plans.

Coins in the Classroom is a benchmark program specifically designed to teach educators how to use money as a tool to create or enhance already existing lessons in mathematics, social studies, language arts, economics, and other subject areas.

This symposium, presented by the James Buchanan Foundation and the Lancaster County Historical Society will examine the political crisis of the 1850s and the presidency of James Buchanan. The symposium includes a keynote event and three panel presentations, as well as an in-service program for secondary teachers.

Parkin State Park interpreters are continually developing new and exciting educational programs for groups who visit Parkin Archeological State Park and nearby Village Creek State Park. Teachers spend the day exploring these two sites by participating in educational programs and activities and earn 6 in-service credit hours. Each teacher will receive information packets on the resources available for teacher and classrooms.

What was life like on the Pennsylvania frontier? How were captives adopted into the Seneca Nation? Who was Mary Jemison? What was life like for her? What does it mean to be a Seneca? G. Peter Jemison, the rest of the staff of Ganondagan State Historic Site, the Friends of Ganondagan Education Committee and some special guests will present a look at Mary Jemison and the Senecas.

The workshop will cover life in a Scotch-Irish household on the Pennsylvania frontier; the influence of the French and Indian War and the process of captivity, adoption, and identity formation; life in a longhouse; Seneca genealogy; and a visit with Mary Jemison (as portrayed by Gretchen Sepik). Participants will receive a folder of information, a ticket for a return visit to the site, and a 10% discount coupon for use at Ganondagan's Gift Shop (where resources on the Haudenosaunee and Mary Jemison will be available for purchase) for the day of the event. They will also meet the staff and receive information about booking a group visit to Ganondagan.

Designed for middle/high school social studies teachers who teach United States history and government, this intensive week-long workshop will immerse participants in early American history "on location" in Williamsburg, the restored capital city of 18th-century Virginia, and nearby Jamestown and Yorktown. 25 teachers and a returning mentor teacher will be selected for each session. Participants will be involved in an interdisciplinary approach to teaching social studies with colonial American history as the focus. Teachers will have the opportunity to exchange ideas with noted historians, meet character interpreters, and take part in reenactments of 18th-century events. They will review various interactive teaching techniques with a mentor teacher and with each other. Instructional materials in a variety of media will be provided to participants to use in their classrooms. Together with Colonial Williamsburg staff, teachers will prepare new instructional materials for use in their own classrooms.

Participants will step back in time to a simpler life on uninhabited St. Helena Island. Participants will be immersed in the life and times of Great Lakes lighthouse keepers, including history, culture, and songs. Educators and youth leaders will sleep in the lighthouse bedrooms, cook with each other in the summer kitchen, and keep watch on the lantern deck as lighthouse families did 100 years ago. Activity classes, all based on the Michigan State Standards, offer the participant a means to integrate real world Great Lakes concepts into their classrooms. Some examples of these activities include topographical mapping, lens/prism and sound technology, use of primary reference materials, storytelling, journal entry, and decision making, to name just a few.