Hunterdon County Historical Society

Description

The Hunterdon County Historical Society's library has been in existence since the Society was founded in 1885. In 1963, through the bequest of the late Hiram E. Deats, over 3,000 items were added. These included his personal library and notes on the places and families of Hunterdon County. Today, the library consists of 5,000 printed volumes, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, broadsides, and photographs gathered and preserved since the Society was founded.

The Library is housed in the Doric House, an 1846 Greek Revival structure furnished in authentic Hunterdon antiques of the period.

The House offers tours by appointment and access to the Library.

Wyckoff Garretson House [NJ]

Description

This classic early Dutch home on South Middlebush had been disguised for 276 years when the Meadows Foundation started its research and restoration. It will become the Meadows Foundation’s only house museum, with authentic exterior and interior finishes.

The house offers tours and occasional recreational and educational events.

The Urban Experience

Description

The Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars are designed to strengthen participants' commitment to high quality history teaching. Public, parochial, independent school teachers, and National Park Service rangers are eligible. These week-long seminars provide intellectual stimulation and a collaborative context for developing practical resources and strategies to take back to the classroom.

Contact email
seminars@gilderlehrman.org
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
646-366-9666
Target Audience
Middle and high school
Start Date
Cost
Free; $400 stipend granted
Course Credit
Pittsburg State University (PSU) is pleased to offer graduate credit to workshop participants at a tuition fee of $199 per credit hour. Participants can receive three graduate credit hours for the duration of the week.
Duration
One week
End Date
Website
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/seminars1.html

Advanced Placement Summer Workshop: United States History

Description

This workshop is designed to prepare high school United States history teachers to teach this course in their high schools, to provide students with the analytical skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in United States history, and to develop the skills necessary for arriving at conclusions on the basis of an informed judgment and the skills for presenting reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in essay format. The teachers will also be introduced to the latest College Board changes to the test and scoring strategies.

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
American Institute for History Education
Phone number
856-241-1990
Target Audience
High school
Start Date
Cost
$1,295 for resident; $895 for commuter
Course Credit
All teachers will receive a certificate for 30 hours of College Board approved instruction. In addition, all New Jersey teachers will receive 30 professional development hours from the American Institute for History Education as a state-approved vendor.
Duration
Six days
End Date
Website
http://www.aihe.info/teacher-professionaldevelopment/AP-summer-institute.php

Historic Cold Spring Village [NJ]

Description

"Historic Cold Spring Village is an Early American open-air living history museum." Encompassing 22 acres in Cape May, New Jersey, visitors to the village can take part in a variety of interactive, education, and hands-on family activities. The village maintains a small farm where "heritage crops" are grown, 26 beautifully restored buildings, and a staff of historically-clothed interpreters, who educate and entertain visitors regarding the lifestyles, issues, trades, and crafts of turn of the century New Jersey.

The site offers an events calendar, visitor information, detailed information about the educational programs offered, both in class programs and programs at the village, a section for crafting and recipe ideas, and a listing of recent press releases.

This listing is a duplicate of identification number 9752.

New Jersey Council for the Social Studies Annual Fall Conference

Description

Topics covered at this conference will include "CICERO: History Beyond the Textbook," "We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution," "Helping Students to Think About Social Issues," "Meeting Hate with Humanity," "Making Sense of the Presidential Election," "Teaching Social Studies through Primary Sources," "Creating High-Quality Multiple Choice Test Questions for Social Studies Assessment," "Immigration Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow," "Using Teacher Tube," "How to Create a Guest Speaker Program," "New Jersey Amistad Commission Lesson Planning for Restructing your Classroom Curriculum," "Sustaining Professional Development through Free or Almost Free Travel for History Teachers," "Developing and Scoring Rubric-Based Constructed Response Social Studies Test Questions," "Fingerprinting the Constitution: Teaching United States History through the Preamble ," "Using Artifacts to Understand the Wars of the Past," "Reading Strategies to Enhance Social Studies Instruction," "Using Popular Music to Study the Great Depression," "History Alive! Defining and Debating America's Founding Ideals," and "Using Thinking Processes and Technology=Social Studies in the 21st Century."

Website
http://www.njcss.org/
Sponsoring Organization
New Jersey Council for the Social Studies
Location
East Windsor, NJ
Start Date
Registration Deadline

The Dominion of New England

Description

This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces King James II's actions to gain more control over America by combining the northeast colonies into the Dominion of New England and imposing the Anglican Church on the Americans. The king appointed Edmund Andros as governor, which stirred the contempt of the colonists.

Teaching About Global Child Labor and Human Trafficking Conference Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 04/07/2008 - 14:28
Description

The conference, which is geared towards secondary Social Studies, English and Spanish teachers, offers educators the opportunity to meet and interview former child laborers and trafficking victims, and attend a film festival and lectures by top scholars and human rights activists working in the field. The conference will provide the first forum in the United States for intensive training in the internationally acclaimed, interdisciplinary SCREAM—Supporting Children’s Rights through Education, the Arts and Media— program, developed by the International Labour Organization, International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO/IPEC). SCREAM offers cutting edge pedagogy, ideal for adapting and differentiating instruction to accommodate students' different learning needs and styles.

The highlight of the program will be the forum where former child laborers from South America and victims of trafficking within the US will share their stories. These stories will be videotaped for classroom use and conference participants will develop teaching ideas to accompany these narratives which will be published for use in the schools.

12.5 Professional Development Hours (1.25 CEUs) available.

Sponsoring Organization
Drew University, International Center on Child Labor and Education
Contact email
lswerdlo@drew.edu
Location
Madison, NJ
Contact name
Swerlow, Linda
Phone number
1 973-408-3046
Start Date
End Date

History Colloquium: "The Cold War in Historical Perspective"

Description

"An NCHE team of Marc Selverstone and John Pyne will explore the topic of The Cold War in Historical Perspective at this Teaching American History colloquium."

Sponsoring Organization
National Council for History Education
Phone number
1 440-835-1776
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Cost
Not listed
Course Credit
Not listed
Duration
Five days
End Date
Website
http://www.nche.net/page10/page10.html
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