Frontiers and Borderlands: Native American History and the Settler Experience
This theme will review the scholarship on Native American histories and the process of settling the North American continent. It will take as its local base the Newark Earthworks State Memorial, home to the largest geometric earthen structures in the world.
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Seminar: Monday, May 12 , 2008
The Newark Earthworks with OHS Curator of Archaeology Dr. Bradley Lepper; 8:30 a. m. to 3:30 p. m. at OSU Newark and the Newark Earthworks
Summer Institute : June 23-26, 2008
9 a. m. to 3 p. m. at The Ohio State University, Columbus.
Explore History is a professional development program for K-12 teachers in the thirteen county area of central and north central Ohio served by Ohio State University's regional campuses in Lima, Marion, Mansfield, and Newark. This program combines the resources of the Ohio State University, the Ohio Historical Society, and the Mid-Ohio Educational Service Center to support and improve the teaching of traditional American history.
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Explore History participants will receive: (1) a $1,000 stipend, (2) five hours of non-degree graduate credit from the Ohio State University, (3) program materials, including books and primary source packets and CDs, (4) payment to their school for substitute days spent at the project's two Monday seminars, and (5) opportunities to interact with peers, professional historians and original collections material from the Ohio Historical Society.
By involving teachers in a project designed to increase content knowledge, understanding and appreciation of traditional American history through an intensive, ongoing professional development program, Explore History will improve American history instruction in thirteen Ohio counties.
Ultimately, we expect to inspire greater student interest in the subject and contribute to greater student achievement both in American history courses and the mandatory state achievement tests.
