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A "serious fun" hands-on workshop sharing the motivation-to-retention best practice technique: personalizing the curriculum with academic scrapbooking. Leave with ready-for-the-classroom sample lesson plans (showing differentiation).

"EDSITEment, the prize-winning fourteen-year-old partnership of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Verizon Foundation, offers lesson plans, student interactives and review websites for K-12 teachers. Find out about our interdisciplinary history and social studies resources to supplement, extend and enrich the standard curriculum."

"izzit.org provides compelling educational DVDs, current events lessons, unique games and contests to over 300,000 teachers, 44,000 schools and 29 million students. Attend to receive free membership and free videos!"

"The new online computer game, Budget Hero, is a fun way to learn about, and teach, the challenges of balancing the federal budget. And it’s free! Learn how you can use this game in your classroom. "

"Nationally recognized Los Angeles teacher Shannon Garrison will share information and practical tools from the Nation’s Report Card at grades 4, 8, and 12, including a demonstration of complimentary, online resources teachers and policymakers can use to improve achievement in these key social studies disciplines."

See a demonstration and discuss new educational technology tools for teaching American History developed with funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

"Transform stereotypes and inspire your students with the hidden history of the Jewish partisans: men, women and teens who fought back during the Holocaust. Includes free curriculum and DVDs."

"How do you construct a curriculum that includes positive representations of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) people, history and events? This session will provide guidance on content development as well as examples of available resources and instructional strategies."

Take part in an FTE activity that helps teach about the origins of the Euro and hear analysis of the current European crisis. Thirty participants will receive Izzit “Free Trade” DVD.