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 [...]
The “Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky” is the first in a series of intriguing topics that teachers can address in their classrooms through KY MEdia Bank, a new online “public scrapbook.” The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) created the website as both an innovative teaching tool for K-12 students and as a place where the public can capture, share and archive [...]
The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) has shifted to its winter operating schedule. From Dec. 15, 2103, to March 7, 2014, the KHS history campus – Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History, the Old State Capitol and the Kentucky Military History Museum at the State Arsenal – will be open to groups of 10 or more with an advance registration. [...]
The Kentucky Historical Society’s HistoryMobile is available to visit elementary, middle and high schools in Kentucky. This full-sized tractor trailer contains an interactive exhibition called “Torn Within and Threatened Without: Kentuckians in the Civil War Era,” which uses personal recollections, authentic artifacts and touch-screen activities to teach critical thinking, literacy and college and career readiness. Student activities are tied to [...]
A Jefferson County teacher uses hands-on instruction to garner the state History Teacher of the Year award.
Teachers at two central Kentucky schools will use visual thinking strategies to help students learn social studies over the next couple of years.
It’s funny how we often overlook the offerings of our own town. I have lived and worked in Frankfort for over 10 years. My job as a photographer takes me to all sorts of interesting places. But somehow, in all of that time and all of those photo assignments, I had yet to visit the Old State Capitol.
The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) will host a “Food for Thought” luncheon program, “Pine Mountain Settlement School,” with Nancy Adams, executive director, and James Greene, Harlan Independent school district curriculum supervisor, March 20, at the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History in Frankfort. Located in the mountains of Appalachia in southeastern Kentucky, Pine Mountain Settlement School was an early [...]
The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) offers museum skills workshops that help teachers turn a standard field trip into an experience of creativity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking for their students. Field Trips 101 will focus on booking transportation, scheduling a visit and engaging students. Participants will also have the opportunity to learn about the many field trip options the Kentucky [...]
The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) is working with Strategic Marketing and Research, Inc., to understand educators’ perceptions of historical organizations (museums, historic houses, battlefields and archives) and to gauge interest in using these organizations as a resource in classroom environments. KHS is looking for school administrators, curriculum staff and educators in grades 4-12 currently teaching social studies, English/ language arts [...]
