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A new interactive online exhibit from the California Council for the Humanities (CCH)—"We Are California"—will explore the history and stories of those who have immigrated or migrated to California. A new partnership between the Council and the California History-Social Science Project (CHSSP) will help to bring this exciting resource to the classroom. The topic of these workshops will be "The Era of Great Internal Migrations to California" between World War I and World War II. It will discuss, contrast, and analyze the experiences of Dust Bowl migrants to California, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans.
This Geography Awareness Week workshop will begin with a lecture on migration to the U.S. from Latin America. Lessons from the Geography Action! packet will then be introduced. The session will conclude with guided tours of four Latin-American art exhibits at the Fowler Museum.
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This session features a talk from Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor and lessons created and demonstrated by three teachers.
This is the second of a three-part conference designed to advocate for increased and improved history instruction, K12. It will include lectures or presentations; analysis of a real or hypothetical teaching situation; review of student work; group discussion or group work; in-depth reading on a specific topic; preparation of a paper, report, or research project; and leadership development
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and to examine its global impact, the Harvard Law School/Facing History and Ourselves program will convene international scholars from education, law, and human rights, as well as students, teachers, and community leaders, to consider Hope, Critique, and Possibility: Universal Rights in Societies of Difference. The conference is being held on November 20, 2008 in partnership with the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies. Through thoughtfully-facilitated panel discussions, exchanges with the audience, and individual reflections, this day-long conference will examine the influence that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights holds today, and identify some of the challenges to fulfilling its founders' intentions when it was adopted in 1948.
The theme for this conference is "Social Studies on the Front Burner: Resources and Instructional Strategies for the 21st Century." This conference will provide teachers with instructional strategies and resources to help them implement the 2007 Social Studies Learning Results, while also celebrating social studies instruction in the State of Maine.
Using ESSEX History examines local history at its best in this seminar lookubg at Salem and the China Trade with Salem State's Dr. Dane Morrison. Dr. Morrison will lead attendees through a discussion of the economic and maritime history of Salem during the China Trade and the ways in which this vast trading network affected the economy and culture of Essex County. This seminar will take place at the House of the Seven Gables—a stone's throw from historic Derby Wharf, the center of the China Trade. In the afternoon, teachers will be introduced to some of the Peabody Essex Museum's vast collections of China Trade artifacts.