United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellowship

Applications are now being accepted for the 2011-2012 Museum Teacher Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from teachers in grades 7 through 12. Those chosen must show evidence of extensive knowledge of Holocaust history, successful teaching experience, and participation in community and professional organizations.

Teaching Fellows help promote the Museum’s efforts to ensure quality Holocaust education in secondary schools by participating in a variety of activities.

For more information and application material, visit
http://www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/prodev/teacherfellowship/. The application deadline is February 11, 2011.

Making Ohio Memory Better

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season and staying warm!

You may remember me mentioning that we are working on our Ohio Memory website. The Ohio Historical Society is looking for some feedback on the functionality of our Ohio Memory search engine. As the digital collection has grown we are trying to find ways to make it increasingly user friendly. We especially value the opinions of teachers as we want our resources to be accessible for the classroom.

Please take a few minutes to complete the survey at the link below. In order to answer the questions you will have to complete a search using a new test home page for Ohio Memory. You can only access this page using the link provided in the survey directions. The survey will be available until December 31^st, 2010. If you have any questions please contact me at muline-olmstead@ohiohistory.org.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QXMVLXW

Thank you so much and we look forward to your feedback.

Help make history come alive for Ohio's 4th-12th grade students

National History Day in Ohio is in the race to receive $50,000 from the Pepsi Refresh Project. Show your support for the program and Ohio students by voting everyday in December. Go here to vote.

Funding from the Pepsi Refresh Project will help to expand the program into more urban and rural schools. The grant will be used to provide financial assitance to low-income students; program materials & field trips to historic sites; teacher training & support materials.

Library of Congress Teachers

Starting today, you can search for classroom materials from the Library of Congress using state academic content standards. Of course, I has to test it out. I searched Ohio, grade 10, social studies, and found some great primary source sets and lesson plans for Industrialization.

Give it a try: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/.

Great Webinar

I finally got on after having to look up my password, because I haven't used the blog in a while (Sorry Kristina!!). The first webinar was great! I mentioned the PBS series "New York" - the web companion to the series can be found here - and a nice inexpensive tip to getting a hold of it is to visit your local library. I know the Clark County library has a copy.

BCHE Webinar this Thursday!!!

Hey Back to History members,

In anticipation of our first webinar here is information about another webinar this week. This will give you a sample of what you can expect with your BCHE memberships this year. Check it out - especially if you teach about Native Americans.

The first Buckeye Council for History Education webinar begins Thursday, November 18!

American Indians in the 20th Century
Thursday, November 18, 2010
6:00PM – 8:30PM

Dr. Daniel Cobb
Associate Professor
Department of American Studies
Convener, American Indian Studies
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Webinar schedule:
6:00PM-7:30PM: Content Session
7:30-8:00PM: Primary source activity
8:00PM-8:30PM: Classroom Applications

This first webinar in the series is FREE!

To register, please click here.

The rest of the webinars in the series will be FREE for BCHE members and $20 for non-members. If you would like to become a member of BCHE please click here.

All participants will receive a CD with primary sources from the Ohio Historical Society related to the webinar topic.

Never participated in a webinar before? It's easy! All you need is a computer and internet connection.

Looking for Historic American Newspapers?

Check out Chronicling America, a site that allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Happy hunting.

Veterans Day

I just finished listening to "Coming Home: A History of War Veterans" on BackStory. Through interviews with historians and veterans from various conflicts, the episode focuses on the experiences of soldiers through three centuries of American history. There is also a list of resources from census records to soldier letters available for classroom use.

Please share your thoughts on how you commemorate Veterans Day with your students.

Call for Lesson Plans

The Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) is looking for contributors to a new series of lesson plans for secondary teachers. Topics for lesson plans include The Louisiana Purchase, War of 1812: Another War for Independence?, Slavery and Civil War Diplomacy, The Marshall Plan, and FDR and Great Britain in the 1930s.

To be considered as a contributing editor for one or more of the topics, please submit a one paragraph summary of how you would approach the topic and a brief C.V. to SHAFR. For more information and submittal details, visit http://www.shafr.org/teaching/secondary-education/.

took pre-test

I took the pre-test and had about 18 minutes left in the 50 minute time period allotted.