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 What is the Heroes Day Contest? It’s a fun, friendly competition for students from schools across the country who love history.  The top 5 teams will win $1,000.00 towards their travel costs to the History Bowl contest held at a destination (to be determined) on May 12, 2012.  How do I become a finalist? 1. Register your team on Franklin’s [...]

The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) and Program for Teaching East Asia (TEA) at the University of Colorado invite applications to two national summer institutes. The 2012 institutes are open to secondary teachers nationwide who teach about Asia; the institutes are also designed to provide enrichment for teachers who have previously completed an [...]

The Veterans National Education Program presents: Tuskegee Airmen package consisting of: a 37 minute film/history that will be separated into 8 segments. Lesson Plans and quizzes Trailer of “Red Tails”(Story of the Tuskegee Airmen) — Full Length film produced by George Lucas.  Premiers Jan 20 2012. Book on the life of Tuskegee Airmen  by Luther [...]

The Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies, in conjunction with the American Institute for History Education, will be sponsoring a seminar on the topic “Political Campaigns, Elections and Technology” to be held on January 30, 2012 at  Marywood University, Scranton, PA.  We are inviting current secondary student teachers, their cooperating teachers, methods professors and pre [...]

Follow this link to the CRF’s Civic Action Project upcoming webinars. http://www.crfcap.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=141

There is a young Pennsylvania Central Pennsylvania student Jordan Brown, a WWII buff who has embarked upon a campaign to ensure that the WWII vets who served on D-Day are memorialized. Visit Jordan’s Website to learn more about his inspiring effort at http://www.hangtough6644.org/.  

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills and National Council for Geographic Education developed a skills framework for Geography. Click Here to download the framework.