April 2008
April 11, 2008 - April 12, 2008
The Best of Yolo County: A History-Social Science Symposium
Friday from 1:00 to 6:30 p.m and Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Yolo County Office of Education
Join us as fifteen History Project teacher leaders present standards-based lessons for grades 4 through 12. Topics include: The Inventions of Benjamin Franklin, Native Americans in California's Missions, The Battles of Lexington and Concord, Hatshepsut, His Majesty, Sikhism, Horace Mann, The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, Shall We Be a Nation, and the Battle of New Orleans in 1812. Other workshops include The Great Depression and Sharecroppers, How Progressive were the Progressives, Little Did They Know: The Battle for Central High, 100 Years of Religious Intolerance in the US, 31 Names, 31 Stories: World War I Fatalities in Yolo County, and Power and Promise: Redrawing the Boundaries of the Middle East.
All participants will receive five lessons and a CD of images for the event.
Dinner and lunch will be served.
Free for Yolo County and Dixon teachers; $125 for all others