What's New

Firsthand Teacher Strategies:
How do classroom teacher use TwHP lesson plans? The “TwHP Lesson Pedagogy" page now includes more articles and case studies by teachers explaining their personal strategies for applying components of the TwHP lesson plans.

 

Field Studies in the Methods Course:
TwHP's Teaching Teachers the Power of Place website now includes a detailed "how to" on planning and conducting field studies. Unlike "field trips," "field studies" engage participants in active on-site investigation of historic places. Both explaining the intellectual basis and providing a step-by-step process, this guide will serve not only history and social studies methods professors, but also any educator who wants to enhance leanring during visits to historic sites.

Lesson Plans:
Teaching with Historic Places regularly introduces new on-line lesson plans. The latest offerings include:

NEW!

“The Greatest Dam in the World”: Building Hoover Dam
Learn why the building of Hoover Dam was a triumph for the Bureau of Reclamation and how it came to symbolize what American industry and American workers could accomplish, even in the depths of the Great Depression.

Lafayette Park: First Amendment Rights on the President's Doorstep
Learn how a group of determined women selected Lafayette Park, across from the White House, to demonstrate for their right to vote, providing a First Amendment model for many others.

Above Photo Courtesy of Beth Boland