The Center for Teaching American History designs and administers numerous
professional development activities for teachers. Foremost among them are
the Summer Workshops
and subsequent Peer
Review Conferences.
At the summer workshops we explore the possibilities of using the World
Wide Web as a resource for gathering and analyzing primary documents to
enhance the classroom experience -- for both students and teachers.
Participants begin developing a teaching unit to implement in the coming
school year. In the late spring, we reconvene for a Peer Review
conference where the participants present their teaching unit, sharing
materials and ideas with one another.
In the course of participating in the workshops teachers focus on many
specific websites and web-related resources from which they draw
materials. Below you will find links to descriptions of the web resources
that participants have utilized, organized topically. Additionally, you
will find links to lesson plans and ideas for the classroom developed from
these web resources.
SLAVERY, THE CIVIL WAR, AND
RECONSTRUCTION
Summer Workshops July 8-12, 2002 and July 11-15 2005
Peer Review Conferences May 10, 2003 and March 25, 2006
From the Summer Workshops:
Antebellum Resistance To Slavery
Sectional Conflict
African Americans and the Civil War
Civil War and
Reconstruction
From the Peer Review Conferences:
African American
Soldiers in the Civil War
Reconstruction Revisited: Why? What
If?
The Election of 1860
Carolina Gold and Black
A House Divided--The
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Exodusters
Historiography of Reconstruction
A REVOLUTION, A CONSTITUTION, AND A
NATION: TEACHING THE MAKING OF A NATION WITH DOCUMENTS
Summer Workshops July 7-11, 2003 and August 9-13, 2004
Peer Review Conferences April 24, 2004 and March 19, 2005
From the Summer Workshops:
"What were
the prevailing attitudes of the colonists regarding independence?"
(grade 7)
"Was the
Declaration of Independence inevitable?"
From the Peer Review Conferences:
George Washington: Decisions of the
Commander-In-Chief
A Soldier's View of the American
Revolution
The Development of Parties in
Washington's First Administration
The Constitution, The Bill of
Rights and Me, oh my!
What About Our Rights Guaranteed
Under the Constitution?
Lewis and Clark Journals: A
Living History
"'WE LIFTED
OUR VOICES IN THUNDER TONES: AMERICA'S CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION IN
DOCUMENTS
Summer Workshops August 18-22, 2003 and August 14-18, 2006
Peer Review Conferences April 24, 2004 and Spring 2007
From the Summer Workshops:
Women and Civil Rights
Birmingham, 1963 (DBQ)
From the Peer Review Conferences:
"The Bridge to Equality":
Teaching the Civil Rights Unit
Key Events, People, and Groups
of the Civil Rights Movement
Grassroots: Direct Action, 1955 -
1965
Human Rights Violations Involving
Children
Changing Roles of Women in
the 1920s
"Pretty Good for a Girl:" Gender
Differences in the 1950s
THE U.S. AND THE WORLD IN THE 20TH
CENTURY
Summer Workshops August 16-20, 2004 and August 15-19, 2005
Peer Review Conferences April 23, 2005 and March 25, 2006
From the Summer Workshops:
U.S. Foreign Policy and WWII(DBQ)
WWII:On the Homefront(DBQ)
WWII: A Prelude to War(DBQ)
Cold War Events
Music of the Cold War
Was the Treaty of Versaille
Responsible for Starting WWII?
American Imperialism
The Great War Newspaper Group
Project
Cold War Documents: Journal Writing
& Fiction
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGE IN THE
19TH CENTURY
Summer Workshops July 12-16, 2004 and July 10-14, 2006
Peer Review Conferences April 23, 2005 and Spring 2007
From the Summer Workshops:
Abolition DBQ
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