Secondary Level-High School

Participants will analyze Rockwell paintings to evaluate the black experience during the Civil Rights Era. Active learning approach modeled through a WebQuest and cooperative learning visual analysis will be performed.

The social studies classroom is dull! This session details ways educators can combine fictional comic books/graphic novels into their classroom in order to better engage students. Handouts provided.

How do Supreme Court decisions in the past affect our society today, and shape our society tomorrow? We will delve into these questions in our seminar.

Public monuments offer understanding of the legacy of historical people and events. Examine teaching materials available through Friends of the National WWII Memorial, additional sources for instruction using public monuments.

This presentation will demonstrate how to include multiple perspectives in the teaching of the Korean War that includes material from both the United States and Korea. Materials will be distributed.

Join our panel of educators in a sharing and learning opportunity to discuss what environmental/sustainability learning "looks like" through traditional and innovative classroom lessons, civic engagement and outdoor education.

This workshop will discover bullying among students. Participants will learn and share Facing History's multimedia resources that stimulate and promote safe environment in schools.

Using US History, Michelle Alexander's recently published book, "The New Jim Crow," and 20th century African-American responses to racism, we will examine strategies for our students' social/political engagement with racism.

This session investigates the characteristics and flaws of the planned economy's approach and promise to provide quality goods in the attempt to satisfy the average needs of Eastern European citizens.

Ready to go lessons, using U.S. foreign policy, documentaries and NGO websites; engage students in in-depth discovery of 26 countries' struggles with water quality and supply.