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Speaker offering program on Tuskegee Airmen

Ron Spriggs, a speaker and oral historian of the Tuskegee Airmen, offers year-round speaking engagements for school assemblies of up to 500 students per session. Spriggs focuses on two main areas that parallel the national Tuskegee Airmen organization: sustaining the legacy and history of the airmen through student lectures, speaking engagements and exhibitions; and creating programs and experiences for students [...]

By |2017-01-11T11:11:01-05:00January 21, 2016|

Mount Vernon offering four-day residential programs

George Washington’s Mount Vernon is offering the George Washington Institute Summer Residential Programs - a four-day immersive professional development experiences - this summer. The program is designed to support K-12 educators who teach about the life, leadership and legacy of George Washington and the 18th-century world in which he lived. There will be six different sessions that allows teachers to [...]

By |2016-01-20T15:59:42-05:00January 21, 2016|

Students can prepare projects for National History Day in Kentucky

National History Day in Kentucky (NHDKy), the state affiliate of National History Day, gives students the opportunity to explore the past in a creative, hands-on way. NHDKy challenges students in grades 4-12 to think like historians. Students choose their own topics and conduct their own research to produce a documentary, exhibit, paper, performance or website, becoming experts on a topic [...]

By |2019-03-13T15:08:00-04:00November 5, 2015|

Old Fort Harrod welcomes educational field trips

Old Fort Harrod State Park invites teachers to schedule educational field trips for their students to the park in Harrodsburg, the site of Kentucky’s first permanent settlement. The park gives students the opportunity to learn by experiencing the frontier with living history interpreters, who engage them with hands-on conversations. The park also includes Kentucky’s first schoolhouse, the oldest cemetery in [...]

By |2015-09-16T14:29:23-04:00September 17, 2015|

History smArts program scheduling fall visits

The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) is now scheduling its History smArts program for this fall. The program offers in-school experiences for all grade levels. Museum educators travel into classrooms to teach arts-infused history lessons with hands-on activities that the students can take home. Students become historians as they analyze images from KHS collections and do a hands-on activity such as [...]

By |2015-07-09T08:20:14-04:00July 9, 2015|

Clements award recognizes 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. Three teachers will be chosen by an independent review panel for the awards, which are presented by the National Archives and the University of Kentucky Wendell H. Ford Public [...]

By |2017-03-08T12:10:56-05:00March 26, 2015|
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