Essentials Exploration

Description

From the Colorado Rural Partnership website:

"The Essentials Exploration, the level one workshop series, provides an orientation and overview of primary sources and the Library of Congress online resources. This hands-on workshop series focuses on strategies for navigating the Library's website, engaging students through critical thinking and analysis, and exploring activities that integrate the Library's sources into content across the curriculum and across grade levels."

Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
Library of Congress; University of North Colorado
Phone number
970-351-1555
Target Audience
Colorado educators
Start Date
Cost
Free
Course Credit
"Participants completing the Essentials Exploration workshop series can receive one (1) graduate credit through UNC at a cost of $55."
Duration
Two days
End Date

Introduction to the Library of Congress

Description

The first in the Library of Congress's Teaching with Primary Sources self-directed online modules introduces educators to the history and resources of the Library of Congress and explains the concept of primary sources and how they may be used in a classroom.

Sponsoring Organization
Library of Congress
Target Audience
PreK-12
Cost
Free
Course Credit
Certificate of completion printable at the end of the seminar; lasts approximately an hour.
Duration
Continually available

Archaeology and North Carolina's First People

Description

From the Learn NC website:

"How long have humans lived in North Carolina? What were these people like, and how do we know? This eight-week online course explores the science of archaeology and 12,000 years of North Carolina's human past. Participants will be introduced to inquiry-based activities that can be adapted to meet their own teaching objectives. The course is open to educators of all subjects and grade levels."

Sponsoring Organization
Learn NC
Target Audience
Educators of all subjects and grade levels
Start Date
Cost
$25
Course Credit
6.0 CEUs.
Duration
Eight weeks
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Kansas Council for the Social Studies Professional Development Day

Description

According to the Kentucky Council for the Social Studies website, this event will provide 25 sessions, with "thematic strands for sessions . . . tied into one of the following themes: Pedagogical Strategies, Economic Education, Citizenship, Primary Sources Instruction, and Integration of Disciplines."

Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
Kansas Council for the Social Studies
Target Audience
PreK-12
Start Date
Cost
$30
Duration
Six and a half hours

Connecticut Teacher Institute in Environmental History

Description

This teacher institute, presented by the Forest History Society, is especially geared toward Connecticut Social Studies teachers (grades 6–10). Participants will learn more about the Society's If Trees Could Talk curriculum to introduce students to environmental history. Discussion topics, hands-on activities, critical thinking skills, team teaching suggestions for other subjects, and more are included in these free, online modules.

The institute will also introduce The Greatest Good, a U.S. Forest Service Centennial film. Educators will learn to use the film in conjunction with the If Trees Could Talk curriculum and hear from guest speakers on various environmental history topics.

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Forest History Society
Phone number
919-682-9319
Target Audience
6-10
Start Date
Cost
Free
Duration
Three days
End Date

"Stony the Road We Trod": Alabama's Role in the Modern Civil Rights Movement

Description

From Bombingham to Selma, Montgomery to Tuskegee, Alabama's people and places left an indelible mark on the world in the 1950s and 1960s. From Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver to the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, Alabama citizens have been at the forefront of the crusade to improve African Americans' lot in life in the United States. Selma's citizens began a march in 1965 to protest the killing of one man. This day became known as Bloody Sunday. Now the citizens of Selma have created a people's museum so the world will not forget those tumultuous days and will remember the people's stories. Teachers in this workshop work with noted scholars, converse with living legends, participate in discussion groups, meet foot soldiers of the movement, and travel to key sites of memory dedicated to the preservation of the history of the modern Civil Rights Movement.

Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Phone number
205-328-9696
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $750 stipend
Contact Title
Cooper, Priscilla Hancock
Duration
One week
End Date

The Most Southern Place on Earth: Music, Culture, and History in the Mississippi Delta

Description

Participants in this workshop will travel throughout the Delta as they visit sites where significant events occurred. They will discuss and learn about issues involving civil rights and political leadership, immigrants' experiences in the Delta, the Blues, the great migration, agriculture, and the Mississippi River, among other things. They will sample Delta foods, visit local museums, and listen to the Blues. Field trips will roam as far as Greenville, Greenwood, and Memphis, with stops in between.

Contact name
Brown, Luther
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Delta Center for Culture and Learning
Phone number
662-846-4311
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $750 stipend
Duration
Six days
End Date

Integrating Field Research Activities into Classroom Curricula

Description

Participants in this program will learn to integrate field research activities into their classroom curricula using the Schoodic Education Adventure program. The two-day institute investigates opportunities to collect field data, apply it to classroom lessons across the curricula, and connect it to real world applications in America's national parks.

Participants will create schoolyard investigation kits to take back to their classrooms; be introduced to outdoor, field-based activities that can be reproduced in a number of settings; learn classroom-based activities relating to science, social studies, technology, math, language arts, small group communication, public speaking, art, health, and citizenship; use GPS units and computers to create digital maps of study sites; and qualify for student scholarships and transportation assistance to take their students to the Schoodic Education Adventure program.

Workshop activities highlight studying forest community structure, marine biodiversity, geology, soil development, and New England history.

Sponsoring Organization
Acadia National Park
Phone number
207-288-8808
Target Audience
4-8
Start Date
Cost
$225. Stipend and scholarships are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Course Credit
CEUs arranged through the University of Maine.
Contact Title
SEA Director
Duration
Two days
End Date

Teaching Churchill

Description

This three-day workshop examines the life of Winston Churchill. Participants will develop strategies for applying historical content in the classroom and across the curriculum.

Contact name
Crump, Mandy
Sponsoring Organization
Winston Churchill Memorial and Library
Phone number
5735926242
Target Audience
4-12
Start Date
Cost
$150; $125 for museum members
Course Credit
Offers one hour of continuing education credit through the University of Missouri, Kansas City for an additional fee of $75.
Duration
Three days
End Date

Missouri Council for the Social Studies Conference

Description

The theme for this conference will be "The Over-Arching Impact of Social Studies Instruction."

Sponsoring Organization
Missouri Council for the Social Studies
Contact email
Location
St. Louis, MO
Contact name
Megan Moncure
Phone number
3146929702
Start Date
End Date