Secondary Level-High School
Teaching for Sustainability: The New Frontier
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:04pmHow does one get started in teaching toward a sustainable future? This session presents two stategies for creating a sustainability curriculum. Particpants will analyze each for strengths and drawbacks.
Action Civics: Adding Relevance and Rigor to the Classroom
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:04pmThis interactive presentation demonstrates action civics strategies for empowering students to identify core issues in their community, analyze root causes of these issues, and work collaboratively towards long term solutions.
Protesters and Patriots: The Music of the 1960s
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:04pmThis poster presentation will help students use critical thinking to understand the divisive issues of the 1960s. Music defines us and records our attitudes and ideas.
The History Education Network: Research-Informed Practice, Practice-Informed Research
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:04pmThis poster session demonstrates ways The History Education Network, a pan-Canadian bilingual organization, brings together different constituencies involved in history education to improve history teaching and learning.
Teaching History with e-Portfolios
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:04pmThe poster presentation will explore ways to create and use digital portfolios to promote literacy, reflection, and historical understanding. Educators learn about free, web-based technologies.
More Than a Month: Expanding How We Teach Black History
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:04pmFree curricula, film modules, and a mobile app reveal how different cultural groups are acknowledged in American history, media, and culture--and empowers students to contribute to history-making themselves.
Lessons for the Past and the Future: Gilded Age Reforms
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:04pmThis is how reform happens: participants will draft model petitions to bring about change based on documents highlighting ills of the Gilded Age.
Stop Learning For Your Students: Developing Historical Thinking and Writing
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:04pmThe strategy of "Say, Mean, Matter" allows students to actively participate in critical thinking and writing about primary sources. It is easy to implement and can be used immediately.
Online Encyclopedia of the World War II Japanese American Experience
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:04pmDemonstrate a new online teaching resource that examines the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the challenges of upholding democratic ideals in a crisis.
Getting Down and Dirty with Dual-Inquiry
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 1:04pmNorthern Arizona Teaching American History Grant teachers share their best-case practices with the dual-inquiry process (teacher as inquiring learner, teacher as facilitating inquiry). Participants will receive lesson plans and resources.
