Teachers Teaching Teachers
The History Project at UC Davis is a community of K-16 educators in the greater Sacramento area.
We are:
- committed to raising student achievement by teaching history in challenging and exciting ways, which expand content knowledge and develop a literate citizenry.
- dedicated to supporting and challenging one another in pursuit of excellence in history and social-science education.
“The History Project has been invaluable in providing teachers with useful, timely, and rigorous hands-on activities for Geography, World History and US History. Having the opportunity to hear and speak with university professors who are experts in their fields and actually having time to collaborate with educators throughout the region are certainly strengths of the program. Educators, take advantage of the History Project offerings; they will take your teaching to a much higher level, and you'll have fun in the process!”
Carrie Malenab
Vice Principal
Pleasant Grove High School
We are part of UCD's Department of History, one of seven California History-Social Science Projects, and part of the larger network of the discipline-specific sites known as the California Subject Matter Projects commissioned by the California State Legislature.
Welcome to our community!
“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” — Pearl S. Buck
Lessons from the Road: Field Study with Sacramento-Area Teachers
This June, a small group of history teachers from the Folsom-Cordova and Center Unified School Districts completed a 7-day field trip to the East Coast—the culminating professional development experience supported by this Teaching American History grant. As the primary partner on the grant, the History Project at UC Davis organized and facilitated the trip.
Designing and delivering a useful and intellectually satisfying experience proved to be major challenge. History Project programs foster high expectations and we knew that a pre-packaged tour would not fit the bill. Read More