Join Us for a FREE Professional Development Institute! Teaching with Primary Sources New Hampshire 2012 Hosted by the New Hampshire Council for the Social Studies at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire July 31st & August 1st from 9am to 3pm Register Online: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2012-NH-PD-Event Dr. Ann Canning, TPS Facilitator, will lead this hands-on session… [Read more…]
May 11, 2012
Press Release For Immediate Release May 5, 2012 Contact Dick Huot, 752-7202 BERLIN – The second annual Writers’ Conference and Book Festival, presented by Northern Forest Heritage Park located at 942 Main Street in Berlin, will be held Saturday, May 19, 2012. Fritz Wetherbee, television personality and New Hampshire storyteller, will be the keynote speaker.… [Read more…]
May 4, 2012
Participants will learn a wide range of developmentally-appropriate, inquiry-oriented teaching methods for the field, laboratory, and classroom, by using the assessment of the health of the forest as a learning context. Activities for 5-8th grade students will be presented on detecting, quantifying, monitoring and mapping a range of forest conditions. The activities are designed to… [Read more…]
April 19, 2012
Teaching Primary Sources, a project of the Library of Congress and Waynesburg State University (PA), will hold a fully-funded workshop at Pinkerton Academy in Derry July 31 & August 1. More information and registration instructions will be forthcoming. This project is co-sponsored by the NH Council for the Social Studies. Note: Other NHCSS-sponsored opportunities this… [Read more…]
April 10, 2012
New! Teaching the Holocaust at the Middle School Level (Gr. 5-8) Manchester/286: CRN 999104, Thursday, August 16, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m., .6 CEUs, $149, lunch included Instructor: Christina Hamilton Duffy
March 16, 2012
Teachers interested in adding archaeology to their teaching toolkits are invited to attend a Project Archaeology Teacher Workshop on Friday, April 20, 2012, from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. at St. Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, NH. Presented by the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources (NHDHR), the New Hampshire State Conservation and Rescue Archaeology… [Read more…]
March 8, 2012
Dear Colleagues, I am writing just to let you know about my up-coming Russian Arts and Culture events for the whole community (for adults, teens and families with children age 6 and up)! After an illustrated storytelling presentation designed to stimulate creativity and imagination, there will be an optional hands-on component where anyone who chooses… [Read more…]
March 5, 2012
Workshop on Turkish History & Culture Local teachers are invited to attend a workshop on Turkish history & culture and could go on a tour of the country in July. The workshop, sponsored by the World Affairs Council of NH at Southern NH University in Manchester is free for teachers of grades 6-12. Three NH… [Read more…]
October 13, 2011
A couple of minor adjustments to the November 16 Echoes and Reflections Workshop. I have moved up the registration date to November 1 in order to have time to order all the materials. Contact me directly to confirm and fill out the registration form. We are also shifting the time from 4pm to 4:30-7pm. Updated… [Read more…]
September 1, 2011
AP US History- Special Topics Pre-AP- Social Studies 10/24/11- Cromwell, CT AP French Language and Culture AP World History 11/8/11- West Hartford, CT AP Psychology AP Spanish Language 12/9/11- Mystic, CT AP French Culture AP World History 11/1/11- Auburn, ME AP European History AP French Language and Culture AP Psychology AP Spanish Language AP US… [Read more…]
August 16, 2011
Are there any Social Studies teachers who might be interested in working with Terry Farish of the Humanities Council on a Workshop: Offering Children and Teenagers the World: Using Literature to Support Learning in the Social Sciences and History. Terry is particularly interested in her work with the NH Humanities Council to collect folktales in… [Read more…]
May 24, 2012
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