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 [...]
The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) is now scheduling its History smArts program for this fall. The program offers in-school experiences for all grade levels. Museum educators travel into classrooms to teach arts-infused history lessons with hands-on activities that the students can take home. Students become historians as they analyze images from KHS collections and do a hands-on activity such as [...]
The application deadline for the Kentucky Historical Society’s (KHS) 2015 Summer Teacher Workshop, “Torn Within, Threatened Without: Kentucky and the Border States in the Civil War,” has been extended. The workshop, which will be offered June 21-27 in Frankfort, is being held in cooperation with historic sites and museums in Kentucky that will be visited during the week. Sessions on and [...]
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 is seeking judges for its regional and statewide National History Day in Kentucky contests. Nearly 3,000 students participate in the program each year, competing for the opportunity to attend state and national contests by conducting original primary source research on a topic of their choosing that supports an annual theme. Judges will review projects on a [...]
The Kentucky Historical Society HistoryMobile is now being scheduled for spring visits at 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 [...]
Sharon Graves, Kentucky’s History Teacher of Year 2014, engages all her students’ senses to make 8th-grade social studies fun.
The Kentucky Historical Society has revamped its website to provide more streamlined access to the resources educators seek. Whether you are a teacher looking for field trip information or professional development opportunities or a school principal who wants to develop a museum-school collaboration, you'll find everything you need to start at history.ky.gov/educators-resources.
Six teachers developed 12 lessons using the Kentucky Military History Museum this summer. The lessons, which strive to get students thinking about the military’s role in the state’s history, will be available statewide this fall.
The Kentucky Historical Society will be sponsoring a summer curriculum camp June 23 -28 to develop lesson plans for the Kentucky Military History Museum. We are seeking six history teachers (two elementary, two middle school and two high school) for this opportunity. Each teacher will be paid $600, which will be paid upon the completion and submission of two lesson [...]
