Social Studies Updates
March 2024
New This Month
March Book Raffle
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- Traveling Shoes: The Story of Willye White: US Olympian and Long Jump Champion (see featured lesson below) (Elementary)
- I Dare! I Can! I Will! The Day Icelandic Women Walked Out And Inspired the World (Elementary)
- Good Girls Don't Make History (secondary, 2 copies)
Good luck! Congratulations to last month's winners Hannah Seidenberg (EK Powe), Diamond Moorehead (Neal), and Dorothy Carr (Rogers-Herr).
Civic Learning Week is March 11-15.
Get ready for Civic Learning Week with resources found here. Resources include lesson plans, an educator guide, influencer tool kit, and more.
Great resources from PBS Learning Media including Civics 101 (for elementary) and a short video about our Civic Duties.
Engage your students with SRVCE (Supporting Readiness Through Vital Civic Empowerment). SRVCE blends inquiry-based civic learning, media literacy education, and exploration of public service careers to prepare students to be active citizens and thrive in the workforce.
NCCAT SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE FOR 2024-25
he North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) is accepting applications from teachers for a NCCAT Honored Educator Scholarship (HES). Each fully endowed scholarship is awarded annually to a North Carolina Teacher and covers all costs associated with participation in a five-day NCCAT seminar; including program materials, instruction, food, lodging, transportation, and a substitute teacher for class coverage. Additionally, recipients will receive $250 to use in their classroom! Below are the opportunities available to teachers in Durham Public Schools:
The Simon F. Terrell I Honored Educator Scholarship
Simon F. Terrell II Honored Educator Scholarship
Beulah Padgett Whichard I Honored Educator Scholarship
Qualified individuals can apply using the link: https://www.nccat.org/programs/honored-educator-scholarship-application. Applications will be accepted through the end of April, and applicants will be notified by June 30th, if they have received an HES.
2024 Gilder Lehrman North Carolina History Teacher of the Year
The Gilder Lehrman History Teacher of the Year award will honor exceptional elementary and secondary school American history teachers (including state and local history). The national winner receives a $10,000 prize presented at an award ceremony in their honor in New York City. State winners receive a $1,000 prize, an archive of classroom resources, and recognition at a ceremony in their state. Nominations for the 2024 Gilder Lehrman History Teacher of the Year awards are now open. Students, parents, colleagues, and supervisors may nominate K-12 teachers for the award by visiting gilderlehrman.org/nhtoy. Deadline for 2023 nominations: April 30, 2024
National Humanities Center Teacher Advisory Council
Education Programs at the National Humanities Center work to provide leadership, training, resources, and partnerships that advance humanities education at the K–16 level.
Our work focuses on the integration of strong scholarship and content, inquiry-based pedagogy, and emerging technology. We build bridges that put scholars and educators in conversation to support humanities classrooms at all levels. Critical to this mission is the role of in-service and experienced teachers in providing relevant and critical perspective to our work. The Teacher Advisory Council supports the Center’s Education Programs for a one-year term of service. Chosen to represent multiple disciplines in the humanities, these teacher leaders accept an active role in the development, evaluation, and promotion of NHC materials and projects. Learn more and apply here.
Fighting Words Poetry Writing Contest (Open to K-12 students)
From the Pulitzer Center : How can poetry be an effective response to current events and the issues impacting our communities? How can journalism and poetry help us make connections between global issues and our local and personal contexts? Students are invited to explore these questions and make their voices heard in their entries to the Fighting Words Poetry Contest. Learn more at the Pulitzer Center website.
New 8th Grade Curriculum Maps
We have new 8th grade curriculum maps. You can review them here. All feedback is appreciated. (Leave feedback here.) Anyone can review the maps and leave feedback but current 8th grade teachers who leave feedback will be entered in a raffle for a $25 gift card.
Field Trip Opportunities
The North Carolina Museum of Art Virtual Field Trips
The North Carolina Museum of Art Virtual Field Trips has Virtual Field Trips that are FREE, for all classrooms and grade levels, standards-based, art-integrated, interactive experiences with a museum educator. Read more here.
Lesson Planning Resources
New K-12 ECONOMICS lesson plans from the St. Louis Fed!
EverFi Financial Eduction Courses for High School
DPS has full access to EverFi. You can access the resource through Clever (on My NCEdCloud). Read more about EverFi's resources here.
Free Digital Textbooks (high school)
From OpenStax. Includes Government, Economics, US, World, Sociology, and Psychology.
FACTCITE
Factsite is available to all secondary teachers, You can access this resource through MyNCEdCloud.
Factsite includes databases for American and World History, biographies, countries and cultures and more.
Women in History (Secondary)
Professional Development Opportunities
NEW! Fundamentals: OER Project Conference for Social Studies
March 23, 11:30-4. Register and view agenda here.
NEW! From the National Archives.
The 1936 Berlin Olympic Games:Teaching Americans and the Holocaust
Thursday, April 11, 2024, 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Online, Register Now.
NEW! Gilder Lehrman VIRTUAL Teacher Seminars
Topics include Jim Crow and Its Challengers, The History of Chinese in the US, American Indian History since 1900, and more. See all topics here.
NEW! Holocaust Education Conference
June 24-26, Virtual
You can view the sessions anytime after the event if you register. Also, they usually send a free book or classroom materials!
There's Still Time For These Great Opportunities
Righting Wrongs: North Carolina’s Changemakers in Your Curriculum
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute Workshop Series
March 2, April 1, and May 10 $150 stipend
The Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute invites you to attend a workshop focused on empowering educators to use local North Carolina histories of human rights activism in their classrooms.Read more here.
Art & Soul: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Black Music and Art in the Humanities ClassroomTeaching African American Studies Summer Institute July 8–12, 2024 at the National Humanities Center (Application due March 1. Stipend provided)
White House History Teacher's Institute (K12)
Summer 2024. $1000 stipend to offset travel. Applications open January 8. More information here.
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center (K-2). Several workshops. All are virtual and free! Read more about it here.
Tumultuous Times: Reconstruction in North Carolina
From the NC Museum of History. Cost $50. Summer 2024
Free Course for NC Teachers at Ashland University. For more information about this great opportunity, please contact Charles Martindell, Graduate Programs Resource Manager for the Master of Arts in American History and Government at Ashland University. You may also call (419) 207-4511 or visit the website.
On-demand training for teaching about the Holocaust from the US Holocaust Museum.
ON DEMAND: ELA & SS Integration in Elementary Classrooms (from NCDPI)
National Humanities Center
FREE ON-LINE COURSES! (35 CEUs!) andWEBINARS
Inquiries
C3 Inquires Aligned to Q3 Maps
NEW! C3 Inquiries have been added to our curriculum maps (wherever possible).
Below are some ready made inquires that align with the DPS curriculum maps for 3rd quarter. Reach out to Charlene (charlene_martinklein@dpsnc.net) if you want assistance or if you want to work together on planning your own inquires.
C3 Teachers Inquiries Aligned to Q3 Curriculum Maps
Kindergarten: Mapping
1st: Map Skills, Maps & Geography
2nd: Email Charlene if you would like to work on creating an inquiry for Q3!
4th: Equality and Civil Rights
5th: Equality and Civil Rights
6th: Black Death. Islamic Spain
7th: Cost of Water
8th: Japanese American Internment
World: Modernization
Civic Literacy: Corporate Social Responsibility
American: Music and Change
EPF: Taxes