Tag: history
Engaging with local history museums during COVID-19
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, museums have been working to adapt to a more virtual world in order to continue engaging with teachers and students.
White House history highlighted in weekly activity series
The White House Historical Association Education Team has created an educational activity series on White House history designed for students in grades K-5 utilizing non-traditional instruction.
Speaker offers program on history of Tuskegee Airmen
Ron Spriggs, an oral historian, lecturer and curator of Tuskegee Airmen exhibits, offers an exhibit on the Tuskegee Airman and their mission that can provide a source of historical information for classrooms during Black History Month in February and Veterans and Military Families Month in November.
Clements award recognizes high school history, civics teachers
Applications are now being accepted for the Earle C. Clements Innovation in Education Award for Civics and History Teachers, which recognizes promising and innovative Kentucky high school history or civics teachers.
What Statistics in Schools can do for teachers
Teachers looking for meaningful assignments that include statistics across a wide range of subjects can find all of that and more by using activities from the Statistics in Schools program.
Fellowship offers government, history teachers funds for master’s degree
The James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation offers secondary-level teachers of government and history up to $24,000 to complete a master’s degree in fields related to the U.S. Constitution.
Judges needed for National History Day competitions
The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) is seeking judges for its National History Day in Kentucky regional and state contests. Regional contests will take place March 3-24 at five colleges and universities across the state, and the state contest will be April 21 in Lexington.
Registration open for Kentucky Junior Historical Society conference
Registration is open for the Kentucky Junior Historical Society (KJHS) Conference Nov. 9-10 at the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History and the Old State Capitol in Frankfort.
Clark, Fayette teachers receive Earle C. Clements Award
Three Kentucky high school teachers are the winners of the 2017 Earle C. Clements Innovation in Education Awards from the National Archives and the University of Kentucky...
Bullitt teacher named Kentucky History Teacher of the Year
Jennifer Faith, a teacher at Eastside Middle School (Bullitt County), has been named the 2017 Kentucky History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder...
