Featured Digital Collection The Volunteer State Goes to War: A Salute to Tennessee Veterans is an online exhibit that focuses on Tennessee as the Volunteer State during times of war. The exhibit highlights important Tennesseans who fought bravely and remembers those who lost their lives in service to their country. Each page has a plethora of primary sources from the Tennessee State Library and Archives, and gives background into the war and how Tennesseans contributed to the cause. US History standards are covered from the Revolutionary War through military intervention following the Vietnam War.
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Civic Teacher Workshops - June 2018Join the Tennessee Secretary of State’s office this summer to learn more about the resources our office provides to teachers regarding civic engagement including lesson plans, an essay contest, the 2018 Student Mock Election, and more! Our tools and resources aim to incorporate civic engagement throughout the education experience and to help students to become actively engaged citizens.
Teachers of all grade levels and teaching subjects are welcome to sign up, emphasis will be given on social studies curriculum. Teachers will receive 4 hours of professional development credit. There is no fee to participate and lunch is provided.
Space is limited! Visit our website for more details or to sign up!
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Education Outreach Attends NCHE!Dear Educators:
Recently, I attended the National Council for History Education annual conference in San Antonio, Texas. I attended several great sessions and wanted to share some of the resources I learned about with you!
The Alamo
As anyone teaching Tennessee history knows, the story of the Alamo has significant connections to Tennessee. They also do a lot of great work for educators. Available on their website is a collection of lesson plans dealing with Texas Independence.
World War II
Most of you know how fantastic the National World War II Museum is in New Orleans. They have great resources for educators! After registering on their website, you’ll get free access to lesson plans, essays, and multimedia resources. Lastly, their professional development opportunities for educators are impressive (hint, they sometimes include trips to important World War II sites in the US and abroad)! They welcome teachers from across the country. If you teach this subject, consider applying in future years!
Crusade for the Vote
The National Women’s History Museum is a completely online museum, available at www.nwhm.org. They’ve recently released a report on the status of women in the United States Social Studies Standards, finding that only 15 women are listed more than 10 times in standards across the United States. Ida B. Wells, who spent time in Tennessee, is one of those 15 women! The museum also has online exhibits that provide a wealth of primary sources on topics like “The Women of NASA”, “Harriet Tubman”, “First Ladies” and “Women in the Olympics." Additionally, in preparation for the centennial anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment, the museum has established a separate website dedicated to this story, www.crusadeforthevote.org. There, you’ll find lesson plans on topics such as the Seneca Falls Convention, propaganda and women’s suffrage and women’s voting rights. They also have a great collection of short videos that would be useful for the classroom.
National Archives
The National Archives has developed a fantastic online tool for teaching with documents. DocsTeach allows you to access digitized primary sources from the National Archives, borrow from an expanding collection of document-based activities created by the National Archives education team as well as teachers from around the world, and most significantly, access to create your own activities using the online tools.
The best way to use DocsTeach is to set up a login. This gives you access to so much more. One of the most appealing resources I found was “Weighing the Evidence” an activity created by the National Archives team. There are “Weighing the Evidence” activities for a number of topics, but I’ll provide the link to the activity on the Freedman’s Bureau. This activity leads students to examine primary sources and decide how effective the efforts of the Freedman’s Bureau were. Students examine a primary source and decide if the source meets one interpretation or another. Then they place the document on the side of the corresponding interpretation, and the fulcrum moves based on which interpretation has more documents. It is a pretty cool feature that you can edit in any number of ways to make it work for you. A bonus, you can add primary sources from outside the National Archives! So, if you wanted to include primary sources from our Tennessee State Library and Archives, you can!
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Summer Workshops Our Education Outreach team will be busy this summer traveling to various cities across the state for a series of different teacher workshops and institutes. We look forward to seeing all of our teachers at these events! Additionally, our newly-minted DocsBox program has officially completed its first school year in 19 different classrooms! Check our website in early August for 2018-2019 reservations.
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Contact Us!If you would like to have the Library and Archives provide professional development for teachers in your community, pelase contact Kelly.Wilkerson@tn.gov
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