Using Facing History's principal resource book, Holocaust and Human Behavior, as well as video, primary sources, and presentations by survivors and leading scholars of the Holocaust, participants will experience a rigorous encounter with this powerful history. During the Seminar, a wide range of innovative teaching strategies are used to help teachers confront the Holocaust. At the conclusion of the Seminar, participants leave with a thorough grounding on how to incorporate these teaching tools into their classrooms in ways that will help students connect the history of the Holocaust to the ethical choices they face today. Participants at this Seminar follow Facing History's scope and sequence. The Seminar begins with an exploration of questions of identity in our lives today and then moves to questions of group membership in history. These early sessions lay the foundation for an intensive examination of the steps that led to the Holocaust and the eventual mass murder of millions of Jews and other victims. The Seminar then ask participants to think about questions of judgment and memory, considering who bears responsibility for crimes against humanity and how to confront or memorialize the past. The Seminar concludes by challenging participants to reflect on questions about what it means to participate responsibly in a civil society. Following this Seminar, participants receive complete access to Facing History's Educator Resources, including downloadable unit plans, lessons, and online conversations. In addition, participants are invited to borrow videos, dvds, and books from Facing History's lending library. Finally, each participant is assigned a Facing History Program Associate, who is available to provide ongoing support services.

Celebrate Oklahoma Voices is a statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the Internet. In this 2.5-day workshop, participants will focus on digital storytelling and oral history interviewing skills. Participants receive $500 in digital recording and computer equipment along with hands-on training. Current classroom teachers, librarians, administrators, instructors, and professors in Oklahoma are all eligible to participate.

Celebrate Oklahoma Voices is a statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the Internet. In this 2.5-day workshop, participants will focus on digital storytelling and oral history interviewing skills. Participants receive $500 in digital recording and computer equipment along with hands-on training. Current classroom teachers, librarians, administrators, instructors, and professors in Oklahoma are all eligible to participate.

Teachers can explore the Gettysburg Museum of the American Civil War and Gettysburg National Military Park without their students. They get a jump start to field trip planning and preview a range of trip itineraries and options to meet the grade level, time frame, and size of their group during this four-hour-long workshop.

Teachers can explore the Gettysburg Museum of the American Civil War and Gettysburg National Military Park without their students. They get a jump start to field trip planning and preview a range of trip itineraries and options to meet the grade level, time frame, and size of their group during this four-hour-long workshop.

Teachers can explore the Gettysburg Museum of the American Civil War and Gettysburg National Military Park without their students. They get a jump start to field trip planning and preview a range of trip itineraries and options to meet the grade level, time frame, and size of their group during this four-hour-long workshop.

Teachers can join the incredible Windjammers Education Band for a morning of music they will not soon forget. Through the music of Karl L. King, participants can relive the circus in its heyday, learning how each piece influenced the show and kept things moving along. A full band of circus musicians will break down the pieces into smaller parts, discussing the hows and whys of circus music composition as they go. Material covered can be related to both history and music study, and the workshop will include a lecture, gallery experience, and hands-on activity or lesson plan.

Hands-on lesson plans in art can enrich the teaching of history, mathematics, or language arts. Teachers can create a design for a new coin, a portrait relief, or a figure in the round, and then teach their own students how art plays a part in portraying history, building national pride, and celebrating our heritage. Through firsthand artistic process, teachers and students form a personal connection to concepts, people, and events in history. The workshop will begin with a discussion and an introduction to the sculpture of Augustus Saint-Gaudens and the sculpture process, with an emphasis on the design of coinage. Participants will then proceed to the studio area to begin work. There will be approximately 2 ½ hours of studio time, with an optional viewing of the film, "The Medal Maker: Master Sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser." The film details the complete process of medallic art and can be used in the classroom as a pre- or post-lesson to a class visit to Saint-Gaudens. The workshop will include small group discussions focused on integration of the sculpture process into your current curriculum and the state standards addressed by including sculpture in your lesson plans.

Coins in the Classroom is a benchmark program specifically designed to teach educators how to use money as a tool to create or enhance already existing lessons in mathematics, social studies, language arts, economics, and other subject areas.