Two Fayette County students won their divisions in the 2016 National History Day Contest during the June 12-16 national conference at College Park, Md., with each earning the title National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar. They emerged from nearly 3,000 students who presented their work in this year’s competition themed “Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History.” Amir Abou-Jaoude, who graduated in [...]
The Kentucky Historical Society’s outreach program, History smArts, enhances skills in visual and historical literacy among students with the aid of artifact collections.
Registration is open for the Kentucky Historical Society’s 2016 Kentucky History Education Conference June 23 at the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History in Frankfort. The theme of the conference for K-12 educators is “Taking a Stand in History.” There will be a keynote presentation from the Kentucky Humanities Council on its school programs, a Chautauqua performance of U.S. [...]
The Kentucky Historical Society and the University of Kentucky College of Education will conduct a short professional learning workshop for social studies teachers and other interested educators April 29 on the UK campus in Lexington. The 90-minute workshop, “Taking a Stand in History,” will have one session on the key elements of the inquiry design model and one session on [...]
The Louisville Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the Kentucky Historical Society are offering a professional learning event led by economic historian David C. Wheelock on April 13 in Frankfort. Teachers can learn about 102 years of St. Louis Fed history and explore how to use it in their classrooms. Wheelock is deputy director and a [...]
The Kentucky Historical Society is accepting proposals for its Kentucky History Education Conference (KHEC) June 23 in Frankfort. Educators who have a lesson or activity – especially involving primary sources – that would benefit other social studies teachers are invited to submit proposals, which should be loosely tied to the conference theme, “Taking a Stand in History.” The deadline for [...]
Eleven educators have been named to the 2016 Kentucky Historical Society Teacher Advisory Committee, which advises the historical society on all its educational programming to help make it relevant for Kentucky students and teachers. Committee members do this by drawing on their classroom experiences and their knowledge of Kentucky’s standards. The educators represent multiple grade levels and regions. They are: Pam [...]
The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) offers History smArts, an art-related history lesson, to classrooms in grades 3-5. In History smArts, students will analyze historic images from the KHS collection, discuss what they see and do a fun, hands-on art activity. Students develop visual literacy, historical literacy and critical thinking skills. Activity options include artifact analysis and drawing, pioneer pastimes (making [...]
The Kentucky Historical Society HistoryMobile is being scheduled for spring visits at Kentucky schools. The full-size trailer contains the interactive exhibit, “Torn Within and Threatened Without: Kentuckians in the Civil War Era.” The exhibit uses touch-screen activities, bold illustrations, authentic artifacts, personal recollections and other components to allow students to meet eight Kentuckians who faced difficult choices during the Civil [...]
National History Day in Kentucky (NHDKy), the state affiliate of National History Day, gives students the opportunity to explore the past in a creative, hands-on way. NHDKy challenges students in grades 4-12 to think like historians. Students choose their own topics and conduct their own research to produce a documentary, exhibit, paper, performance or website, becoming experts on a topic [...]