Primarily Teaching: Using Historical Documents in the Classroom

Description

Primarily Teaching is designed to provide access to the rich resources of the National Archives for educators at the upper elementary, secondary, and college levels. Participants will learn how to research the historical records, create classroom materials based on the records, and present documents in ways that sharpen students’ skills and enthusiasm for history, government, and the other humanities. Each participant will search the holdings of the National Archives for documents suitable for classroom use and develop strategies for using these documents in the classroom or design professional development activities to help classroom teachers use primary source documents effectively.

Contact name
Primarily Teaching Staff
Sponsoring Organization
National Archives and Records Administration
Target Audience
Advanced elementary, middle school, and high school teachers of history, social studies, and geography
Start Date
Cost
$100
Course Credit
Graduate credit from a major university is available for an additional fee.
Duration
Five days
End Date

Primarily Teaching: Using Historical Documents in the Classroom

Description

Primarily Teaching is designed to provide access to the rich resources of the National Archives for educators at the upper elementary, secondary, and college levels. Participants will learn how to research the historical records, create classroom materials based on the records, and present documents in ways that sharpen students’ skills and enthusiasm for history, government, and the other humanities. Each participant will search the holdings of the National Archives for documents suitable for classroom use and develop strategies for using these documents in the classroom or design professional development activities to help classroom teachers use primary source documents effectively.

Contact name
Primarily Teaching Staff
Sponsoring Organization
National Archives and Records Administration
Target Audience
Advanced elementary, middle school, and high school teachers of history, social studies, geography
Start Date
Cost
$100
Course Credit
Graduate credit from a major university is available for an additional fee.
Duration
Five days
End Date

Primarily Teaching: Using Historial Documents in the Classroom

Description

Primarily Teaching is designed to provide access to the rich resources of the National Archives for educators at the upper elementary, secondary, and college levels. Participants will learn how to research the historical records, create classroom materials based on the records, and present documents in ways that sharpen students’ skills and enthusiasm for history, government, and the other humanities. Each participant will search the holdings of the National Archives for documents suitable for classroom use and develop strategies for using these documents in the classroom or design professional development activities to
help classroom teachers use primary source documents effectively.

Contact name
Jenny McMillen
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Archives and Records Administration
Target Audience
Later elementary, middle school and high school history, georaphy, and social studies teachers
Start Date
Cost
$100
Course Credit
Graduate credit from a major university is available for an additional fee.
Contact Title
Primarily Teaching Staff
Duration
Five days
End Date

The DBQ Project

Teaser

The DBQ Project is for-profit and produces high school and middle school appropriate materials inspired by the document based question exercise in Advanced Placement History tests.

Description

<p>The DBQ Project is for-profit and produces high school and middle school appropriate materials inspired by the document based question exercise in Advanced Placement History tests.</p>

<p>Binders are available in long and short versions. Long version DBQs are typically 14-17 documents in length, while short version DBQs average 9-10 documents. Many of the short version textual documents have been edited to accommodate reading levels. All binders include documents, background essays, essay questions, and a Teacher’s Toolkit with materials to assist teachers in teaching the process of answering document based questions. A typical DBQ title requires 2-5 days of instruction.</p>

<p>American History titles available are: What Caused the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria in 1692? How Revolutionary Was the American Revolution? How Democratic Was Andrew Jackson? The California Gold Rush: A Personal Journey. What Caused the Civil War? How Violent Was the Old West? Was Andrew Carnegie a Hero? What Caused the Great Depression? Martin Luther King and Malcolm X: Whose Philosophy Made the Most Sense for America in the 1960s? Why Was the Equal Rights Amendment Defeated?</p>

<p>Sample pages are available in pdf form. Titles cannot be ordered online, but an order form can be downloaded from the DBQ website.</p>

Publisher
The DBQ Project is a private publishing business based in Evanston, Illinois.

Primarily Teaching: Using Historical Documents in the Classroom

Description

This workshop provides a varied program of lectures, demonstrations, analysis of documents, independent research, and group work that introduces teachers to the holdings and organization of the National Archives. Participants will learn how to do research in historical records, create classroom material from records, and present documents in ways that sharpen students' skills and enthusiasm for history, social studies, and the humanities. Each participant selects and prepares to research a specific topic, searches the topic in the records of the National Archives, and develops a teaching unit that can be presented in his or her own classroom.

Contact name
Paul Wormser
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
The National Archives Regional Facility, Laguna Niguel, CA
Target Audience
Upper elementary, secondary and college teachers
Start Date
Cost
$100
Course Credit
Graduate credit from a major university is available for an additional fee.
Contact Title
Primarily Teaching Staff
Duration
Eight days
End Date

Westward Expansion: Beyond the Wagon Train

Description

"This workshop will introduce participants to the Native American cultures of the Ohio River Valley and the personalities that scouted, surveyed and established Ohio's first Euro-American settlement. Guest speakers will include Dr. James H. O'Donnell, Professor of History at Marietta College, and curators and archivists from the Ohio Historical Society and the Marietta College Archives."

Contact name
Blankenship, Jody
Sponsoring Organization
Buckeye Council for History Education
Start Date
Contact Title
Coordinator
End Date

Educator Scholarship Program

Description

Provides scholarships for public and private school K-12 educators to take college courses.

Sponsoring Organization
Horace Mann
Eligibility Requirements

Must NOT be a resident of Hawaii, New Jersey, or New York | Must be a K-12 educator currently employed by a U.S. public or private school and planning to enter a two or four-year accredited college or university | Must have at least two or more years of teaching experience | "Must be employed by a U.S. public or private school at the time of application and at the time the scholarship is awarded? | Must not be an employee of Horace Mann

Application Deadline
Award Amount
Up to $5000

Horace Mann - Abraham Lincoln Fellowship

Description

This fellowship offers full-time K–12 teachers an opportunity to study the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln at a five-day institute at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. The institutes will be held June 21–27, 2009, and July 12–18, 2009.

Sponsoring Organization
Horace Mann; Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Eligibility Requirements

Must be a full-time teacher (30+ hours a week) teaching Kindergarten through 12th grade at a public or private school in the United States (though the Institutes target 4-12 grades specifically).

Application Deadline
Award Amount
Attendance at institute, round-trip transportation, lodging, and most meals
Location
Springfield, IL

Winston Churchill and the Anglo-American Relationship

Description

This institute will "examine the Anglo-American relationship through the life, reflections, and experiences of Winston Churchill. The Institute encompasses lectures, discussions, and participants' personal responses to readings and films; projects using primary documents from the Churchill Archives Centre; and visits to Churchill sites in Britain. "

Contact name
Muller, James W.
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities
Phone number
1 888-972-1874
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Cost
None ($3,000 stipend)
Course Credit
Participants will receive a certificate indicating participation.
Duration
Three weeks
End Date

Winston Churchill and the Anglo-American Relationship

Description

This institute will "examine the Anglo-American relationship through the life, reflections, and experiences of Winston Churchill. The Institute encompasses lectures, discussions, and participants' personal responses to readings and films; projects using primary documents from the Churchill Archives Centre; and visits to Churchill sites in Britain. "

Contact name
Muller, James W.
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities
Phone number
1 888-972-1874
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Cost
None ($3,000 stipend)
Course Credit
Participants will receive a certificate indicating participation.
Duration
Three weeks
End Date