North Carolina at Home and in Battle during World War II
Learn how World War II affected North Carolinians and how the state’s men, women, and children contributed to the war effort at home and abroad.
Learn how World War II affected North Carolinians and how the state’s men, women, and children contributed to the war effort at home and abroad.
Join us and learn about significant events in United States history from a North Carolina perspective. Examine original documents, artifacts, and historic buildings that help to tell North Carolina’s story as a state. Take back to your classroom a wealth of resources, including the latest historical research by well-known scholars. This four-day program in Raleigh and Historic Halifax will feature speakers, discussions, activities, and field trips.
The Eastern Regional Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Program is currently accepting proposals for the integration of primary sources in K-12 education, existing pre-service and graduate-level education curriculum, and teacher professional development programs. Additionally, cultural institutions and other community organizations may be partners within these programs.
Proposals from $5,000 to $15,000 will be considered and are accepted on a rolling basis. Preference will be given to proposals that have the most potential for being integrated into K-12 classrooms for the long-term.
Apply online: http://iqweb.waynesburg.edu/aam/WU_Eastern_Regional_RFP.html
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Congress in the Classroom® is a national, award-winning education program now in its 16th year. Developed and sponsored by The Dirksen Congressional Center, the workshop is dedicated to the exchange of ideas and information on teaching about Congress. The Center joins with the new Institute for Principled Leadership in Public Service to conduct the workshop.
The 2008 program pays special attention to the upcoming congressional and presidential elections. Participants will gain experience with The Dirksen Center website which features online access to lesson plans, student activities, historical materials, related Web sites, and subject matter experts. The workshop consists of two types of sessions: those that focus on recent research and scholarship about Congress or elections and those geared to specific ways to teach students about Congress or elections.
Drawing upon practitioners, scholars, and educators, the Summer Institute will examine the sources of global conflict and different approaches to peacemaking and peacebuilding in the current global environment, which presents unique challenges and opportunities for teachers striving to ready young people to take their places in an increasingly complex world.
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.
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.
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.
<p>TCM is for-profit and produces materials for all academic subjects and all grade levels. Topic-specific kits consist of primary source documents, historical background information, transparencies, CD-ROMs, and teacher’s guides with worksheets, discussion questions, and activities. All periods in American History are covered. </p> <p>Series available are: Exploring History – simulations, primary sources, and historical background information with an emphasis on people throughout the ages; Primary Source Readers – lessons based on the National Council for the Social Studies and language arts standards include books written at two reading levels for differentiated instruction; Primary Sources – letters, speeches, photographs, and other primary sources; Social Studies Test Preparation – assessments that can be used both in correlation with the Primary Sources kit or as a stand-alone practice piece for answering multiple-choice, constructed-response, and document-based questions; Themed Classroom Readers – designed to help students develop word recognition, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency skills in accordance with the Reading First legislation, may be used to supplement the lessons in Primary Sources and Exploring History kits; and, Resource Books – reading and writing activities, leveled texts, and fluency activities.</p>
<p>Sample pages of titles are available in pdf form, though titles may be ordered through the TCM website.</p>
<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>