How do you bring history alive for your students?
Do you want to incorporate more primary source materials in your classroom, but you're not sure how to do it or where to find them?
Explore History can help. In this content- and research-based course, Ohio teachers have the opportunity to increase their knowledge of American history and sharpen their skills in locating and analyzing primary source materials such as letters, diaries, cartoons, maps, photographs, and other resources from Ohio Historical Society collections.
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Seminar: Monday, January 22, 2007
American Politics, Temperance and Prohibition,
9 a. m. to 3:30 p. m. at the Armstrong Air and Space Museum, Wapakoneta
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) three 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.
