The Museum has a limited number of bus scholarships available to help schools defray the costs of a museum field trip.

The Oregon Council for the Social Studies is offering classroom incentive grants to give teachers the opportunity to try a new idea or project within the classroom when there is not funding to support these creative ideas. These grants are intended for actual instruction. It is suggested that these grants
could be used to develop student created projects like a website or a multimedia production—like a documentary, xommunity forum, mini-classes, Chautauqua, or community service project. Classroom materials to support these student projects would probably meet the criteria.

Through Best Buy Teach Awards, Best Buy provides gift cards to schools to enable them to purchase more technology for their students to use and learn.

The FCSS Endowment Fund supports the activities of FCSS members, through initiatives that include mini grants for the development of materials, instructional units, and classroom techniques and scholarships for advanced study for practicing teachers and future social studies teachers.

This program supports professional development for U.S. history teachers. It is designed to raise student achievement by improving teachers' knowledge and understanding of and appreciation for traditional U.S. history. Grant awards will assist local educational agencies, in partnership with entities that have content expertise, to develop, document, evaluate, and disseminate innovative and cohesive models of professional development. By helping teachers to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of U.S. history as a separate subject matter within the core curriculum, these programs will improve instruction and raise student achievement.

Educators teaching grades four through 12 who have demonstrated excellence in teaching Oklahoma history are eligible for this award. One award is given to an educator in former Indian Territory and one is given to an educator in former Oklahoma Territory. The winner will receive a cash prize.

The Leonore Annenberg Teaching Fellowship is a model for establishing the equivalent of a national "Rhodes Scholarship" for teaching. The Fellowship will provide a $30,000 stipend to exceptionally able candidates to complete a year­long master's program at four of the nation's top teacher ­education programs. In exchange, the candidates must agree to teach for three years in high -need secondary schools. Fellows will be given intensive mentoring and assessment during their first three years of teaching.

This award recognizes educators who have made an outstanding contribution to the teaching of social studies in the state of Georgia.

This award recognizes exceptional classroom social studies teachers from K-6, 5-8, and 7-12 who teach social studies regularly and systematically in elementary, middle, or junior high, and high school settings or at least one half-time in a departmentalized school setting.