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Common Core Classroom Project Resources: The History Day Connection

3 CLOCK HOURS AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE For classroom teachers, librarians and curriculum administrators: Learn about this project-focused, inquiry-based learning program that develops reading, research and analysis skills that meet the Common Core State Language Arts Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies. Includes an overview of the program, analysis of the specific common core skills that History Day projects develop, hands-on analysis of research sources, and a short hands-on project related to the theme “Leadership and Legacy in History.” Handouts will include a CD containing primary sources that support 18 topics in U.S. and Washington State History, transcripts from 293 oral history interviews with African Americans, Filipino Americans, as well as farmers, fishers, miners, immigrants, loggers, ranchers and teachers in Washington State who were born between 1880 and 1920, the History Day Teachers Manual, a guide for meeting Common Core Standards through National History Day, and an overview of primary and secondary source research skills.
Date & Time Start:
10-17-2015 10:00 AM
Date & Time End:
10-17-2015 01:00 PM
Location
Puget Sound Branch Archives
3000 Landerholm Cr SE, MS-N100
Bellevue, WA 98007-6484