World War I and the League of Nations Debate

Description

This workshop will use the Choices program's unit "To End All Wars: World War I and the League of Nations Debate" as a jumping-off point for discussing Woodrow Wilson's presidency, the League of Nations, and WWI, as well as how they may be taught.

Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
Choices for the 21st Century Education Program
Phone number
1 401-863-3155
Target Audience
Secondary
Start Date
Duration
One day

Iran Through the Looking Glass

Description

"This 3-day summer institute will give participating teachers an opportunity to deepen their understanding of Iranian culture and politics, and explore critical issues in Iranian-U.S. relations. Major themes covered during this institute will include Islam and Iranian society, the role of Islam in politics, democratic forces in Iran, the history of Iranian-U.S. relations, and current pressing issues in Iranian-U.S relations, including nuclear proliferation and Iran’s involvement in the Iraq conflict."

Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Choices for the 21st Century Education Program
Phone number
1 401-863-3155
Target Audience
Secondary
Start Date
Duration
Three days
End Date

MindSparks

Teaser

MindSparks is for-profit and provides curriculum sets for grades 4-5, 5-8, and 8-12.

Description

<p>MindSparks is for-profit and provides curriculum sets for grades 4-5, 5-8, and 8-12. </p>

<p>Curriculum sets consist of primary source documents, worksheets, overheads, DBQs, maps, posters, and teacher’s booklets. Teacher’s booklets contain discussion questions, follow-up activities, points to make with students, and suggestions for additional activities.</p>

<p>All periods of American History are covered by the MindSparks series. Series available are: Debating the Documents – reproducible booklets, approximately 20 pages in length, consisting of pairs of conflicting primary source documents, worksheets, overheads of the documents, and a final DBQ on the documents; Editorial Cartoons – sets of six political cartoons featured on posters, a teacher’s guide with further background material, questions and follow-up activities; Excursions in History – timelines, maps, games, posters, and reproductions of documents; History Unfolding – sets of 10 student workbooks, one teacher’s manual, and a binder of 14 MindSparks sets, organized by era; and, The Way We Saw It – a 20-page booklet with transparencies of photos, poster art, cartoons, and historical prints, and a teacher’s booklet with discussion questions, reproducible lessons with background information and individual or small group follow-up activities. </p>

<p>Samples are available online and titles may be ordered through the MindSparks website.</p>

Publisher
Highsmith, Inc.

The Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE)

Teaser

SPICE is non-profit and develops multidisciplinary curriculum materials on international themes for elementary, middle school, and secondary students.

Description

<p>SPICE is non-profit and develops multidisciplinary curriculum materials on international themes for elementary, middle school, and secondary students.</p>

<p>SPICE units include thorough lesson plans with subject overviews, primary source materials, handouts, worksheets, in-class activities, projects, and assignments. Many units are interdisciplinary.</p>

<p>While SPICE curricular materials focus primarily on international issues, a number of curricular units are appropriate for an American history course. Selected titles include: Diamonds in the Rough: Baseball and Japanese-American Internment; Security, Civil Liberties, and Terrorism; Comparative Health Care: The United States and Japan; Introduction to Diasporas in the United States; San Francisco Peace Treaty: The Cold War and the Peace Process; and, U.S.-Mexico Economic Interdependence: Perspectives from Both Sides of the Border. </p>

<p>Only the tables of contents for units are available online, though titles may be ordered through the SPICE website.</p>

Publisher
Stanford University

National Center for History in the Schools (NCHS)

Teaser

NCHS is non-profit, funded by grants from both the public sector and private foundations, and produces teaching units for grades 5-12.

Description

<p>NCHS is non-profit, funded by grants from both the public sector and private foundations, and produces teaching units for grades 5-12.</p>

<p>Each reproducible unit is rated for grade-level appropriateness and accompanied by background readings, primary source documents, discussion questions, lesson activities, and evaluation activities. Units are between 50 and 150 pages in length. </p>

<p>American history titles are available for Pre-Colonial history; Colonization and Settlement; Revolution and the New Nation; Constitutional Issues; Women in American History; Culture and the Arts in American History Native Americans; Slavery and Civil Rights; Immigration; and, Conflicts and Foreign Policy. </p>

<p>Previews of units are available in pdf form online and titles may be ordered online through Social Studies School Services at <a href="http://www.socialstudies.com">http://www.socialstudies.com</a&gt;, which also offers many NCHS titles for immediate download as e-books. </p>

Publisher
University of California, Los Angeles

The Choices Program

Teaser

The Choices Program is non-profit and develops curriculum units for use at the secondary level.

Description

<p>The Choices Program is non-profit and develops curriculum units for use at the secondary level. </p>

<p>Each Choices unit is built around a framework of alternative policy options that challenges students to think critically about the issue at hand. The unit includes extensive background readings, primary sources, study guides, a role-play or simulation exercise, and an individual assignment in which students are asked to articulate their positions on a policy issue.</p>

<p>Selected American history topics include A Forgotten History: The Slave Trade and Slavery in New England; Beyond Manifest Destiny: America Enters the Age of Imperialism; To End All Wars: World War I and the League of Nations Debate; Between World Wars: FDR and the Age of Isolationism; Ending the War Against Japan: Science, Morality, and the Atomic Bomb; The Cuban Missile Crisis: Considering its Place in Cold War History; U.S. Immigration Policy in an Unsettled World; Responding to Terrorism: Challenges for Democracy; and, The U.S. Role in a Changing World. </p>

<p>Samples are not available online, though titles can be ordered through the Choices website.</p>

Publisher
The Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University

Twentieth Century Conflicts in U.S. History

Description

From the Lyndon B. Johnson Museum and Library newsletter:

"The LBJ Library and Museum and Education Service Center, Region XIII will co-sponsor a symposium for high school teachers at the LBJ Library on July 13 and 14, 2009.

Twentieth Century Conflicts in U.S. History will feature

* Dr. Mark Lawrence, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Lawrence is author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam which won two awards from the American Historical Association: the Paul Birdsall Prize for European military and strategic history and the George Louis Beer Prize for European international history. He has also written several chapters and articles on the Vietnam War and other topics in U.S. diplomatic history. He is currently at work on a study of U.S. policymaking regarding Third World nationalism in the 1960s and a short history of the Vietnam War. He is also co-editor (with Fredrik Logevall of Cornell University) of The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, a volume of essays about the French war in Indochina.
* Additional speakers from the Fort Worth Regional Archives (World War I), Roosevelt Library (World War II), the Truman Library (World War II), the Eisenhower Library (Korea), the Kennedy Library (Cold War), the LBJ Library (Vietnam), the Ford Library (fall of Saigon), and the George H.W. Bush Library (the Gulf War).

Primary source materials will be featured in related topics.
Cost of the symposium is $50 and includes all materials, a CD/DVD of all primary sources, and breakfast and lunch for both days. Space is limited so register early.
Use the Workshop ID SU0915826 to register online."

Contact name
Jodi Kuhn
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum; Education Service Center, Region XIII
Phone number
512-919-5425
Target Audience
High school educators
Start Date
Cost
$50
Course Credit
"CE Credit: 12.00"
Duration
Two days
End Date

Picturing America School Collaboration Conference

Description

From the Newberry Library website:

"[This conference] will support teachers in the development of lessons using images from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Picturing America program.

Conferences will feature presentations by distinguished scholars and sharing of resources in workshop formats. We will use the Newberry Library's collections as well as a visit to the Art Institute of Chicago and a walking tour of Chicago's Loop to model ways for teachers to use local resources in their own communities."

Contact name
Radke, Heather
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Newberry Library
Target Audience
9-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $400 stipend
Contact Title
Program Assistant
Duration
Two days
End Date

Washington, DC We the People Summer Seminar

Description

The Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier will host the Washington, DC We the People Summer Seminar for middle and high school teachers. The seminar will begin with lectures, discussions, and group activities and conclude with a simulated congressional hearing. Teachers will receive a full classroom set of We the People textbooks.

Contact name
Rydstrom, Justin
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Center for Civic Education
Phone number
202-861-8800
Target Audience
Upper elementary, middle, and high school
Start Date
Cost
Free
Course Credit
Participants will receive documentation of the Seminar's contact hours to qualify them for professional development from their local school system, according to their own school policies.
Contact Title
Program Manager, Center for Civic Education
Duration
Four days
End Date

Maryland We the People Summer Seminar

Description

The Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier will host the Maryland We the People Summer Seminar for middle and high school teachers. The seminar will begin with lectures, discussions, and group activities and conclude with a simulated congressional hearing. Teachers will receive a full classroom set of We the People textbooks.

Contact name
Taylor-Thoma, Marcie
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Center for Civic Education
Phone number
410-767-0519
Target Audience
Upper elementary, middle, and high school
Start Date
Cost
Free
Course Credit
Two MSDE professional development credits will be offered at the successful completion of the seminar.
Contact Title
Social Studies and We the People Programs, Maryland State Department of Education
Duration
Four days
End Date