Secondary Level-High School

Geospatial technology has great potential for teaching geography concepts. This study describes how K-12 teachers implemented GPS and geocaching interdisciplinary activities into their lessons. Implications of geospatial technology are discussed. The researcher will provide examples of GPS and geocaching activities as a model for using geospatial technologies to engage learners.

A murder-mystery from the American frontier with global implications inspires inquiry, critical thinking, and 21st-century research skills by inverting Bloom's taxonomy and empowering students as historians. The session is interactive and includes extensive hands-on work with primary documents.

The presenter will discuss his experiences teaching at a charter high school in East Los Angeles and suggest some ways of connecting student-centered pedagogy with standardized results by focusing on debate and similar classroom strategies. Learn to create an online professional teaching portfolio to showcase your work and your students' work.   --> read more »

Learn how students who were reading below grade level benefitted from an inquiry-based history curriculum intervention. This presenter takes you throughout the structure and reasoning behind the "Document-Based Lesson" and discusses the exciting results of her six-month study with more than 200 eleventh grade students in urban public school classrooms.   --> read more »

The presenters will demonstrate how teachers can use short stories to promote civic education and introduce their new online curriculum, whatsoproudlywehail.org, by discussing Jack London's To Build a Fire.

The Zinn Education Project presents historian James W. Loewen (Lies My Teacher Told Me and The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader) on teaching about the Civil War with primary documents.

Apply the principles of identity-centered literacy instruction across the disciplines to empower students through reading complex and powerful texts.

Native Americans have served in the U.S. military since the American Revolution, and by percentage serve more than any other ethnic group in the armed forces. Join us at a special program as Native veterans share their heroic and unforgettable stories of service in conflicts, and noted scholar and author Herman J.   --> read more »

This highly interactive program combines the vampire craze and social media to give participants a novel way to apply and teach the precedent set in a landmark Supreme Court case as they involve themselves in a realistic trial and jury deliberations--in an actual courtroom with a judge.   --> read more »

Come hear how you can use the multimedia approach of the On the Shoulders of Giants Teaching Kit to help today’s media-savvy middle and high school students explore the Harlem Renaissance and its cultural and social significance through the lives of people in literature, music and sports. At the end of this session, we’ll have a raffle for session attendees.   --> read more »