Secondary Level-High School
Creating Future Citizens
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:03pmStudents from Arab Spring countries work with students from the US and Taiwan to learn about democracy. Students explore rights and duties, tolerance and freedom, and civic engagement.
Let Freedom Swing: Conversations on Jazz and Democracy
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:03pmExplore the relationships between democracy and jazz through a multimedia program for grades 6-12 featuring Sandra Day O'Connor and jazz great Wynton Marsalis. DVDs and curriculum materials will be distributed.
$mart $ites: Technology Resources for Teaching, Learning, Engaging Social Studies
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:03pmConnect technology and the economics, personal finance, and history classrooms! Learn about free technology resources that engage students, share best practices for integrating technology, and gain creative learning solutions.
Youth Courts: A Window on Social Justice in Action
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:03pmSeattle high school youth will demonstrate their youth court in which they sentence their peers for actual traffic infractions. Participants will serve as the jurors and apply restorative justice goals.
Human-Environment, Service Learning, and Skill Building: Ingredients for Integration
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:03pmService Learning gives students a cross-curricular, hands-on approach to studying the environment and the balance in the relationship between humans and nature while simultaneously investigating global interdependence.
Understanding the Eight Stages of Genocide
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:02pmExplore ways to teach about genocide in an informed and compassionate manner using "The Eight Stages of Genocide," a document developed by world renowned genocide scholar, Gregory Stanton.
Veterans Heritage Project: A Window to Connect Students and Veterans
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:02pmHave your students open windows to the past interviewing veterans for permanent archiving with Veterans History Project. Veterans Heritage Project provides materials to open a chapter at your school!
Facing the Other: Using Film to Explore Genocide and Reconciliation
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:02pmIn this interactive session, participants will explore innovative ways to pair award-winning documentary film "Coexist" about genocide and reconciliation in Rwanda with learning activities that develop social and global awareness.
Life in an Auto-Factory: A Simulation for Grades 6-12
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:02pmPlay a worker, boss, or union organizer in this simulation of an auto factory. Learn to run the activity in your history or economics course. (Teaching materials provided.)
How Did these Documents Get to Be So Famous?
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:02pmStudents wonder why certain documents are well known and repeatedly used. This session covers not only the historical content of documents, but covers skills on how to determine historical significance.
