[WSCSS] Spend a week on Minnesota's Iron Range

[Linser, Will (William D)]

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Attention all Social Studies Council and Geography Alliance members -
help us spread the word about our weeklong workshop for educators! 

 
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Jump aboard and join us on Minnesota's Iron Range!
The weeklong Building America workshop is back 
this summer and better than ever!

 

  

Building America: Minnesota's Iron Range, U.S. Industrialization, and
the Creation of World Power

 

 June 13-18, 2010 or August 1-6, 2010


 

 

 

	

 

	

 


Each week, 40 participants from across the nation will explore the Iron
Range 
and the people who worked, sacrificed, and died in the mines to build
industrial 
America and help win two world wars.
  

Building America: Minnesota's Iron Range, U.S. Industrialization, and
the Creation of World Power

 

The weeklong workshop will be based on national history standards and
the national social studies standards. In addition, the workshop will be
organized around three central themes that align with those standards.
These three themes are: 1) Natural History of the Landmark: Geography
and Geology; 2) The Mines and their Contributions to American History;
and 3) The People and the Mines.  

 

General Information

When will the workshops take place? 
Two one-week residential workshops will be conducted in northern
Minnesota's Iron Range during the weeks of June 13-18 or August 1-6,
2010. 

Who is eligible to participate? 
Classroom teachers and librarians in public, private, parochial, and
charter schools, as well as home-schooling parents are eligible to
participate. Other K-12 school personnel, including administrators,
substitute teachers, and classroom paraprofessionals, are also eligible
to participate, subject to available space. 

 

How much does the workshop cost? 
here is no registration fee for NEH-funded Landmarks of American History
and Culture summer programs.

 

More detailed information is available on our website
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About the Minnesota Humanities Center
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See an introduction to the content by viewing part of the Emmy-Award
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Questions?

Mallory Wessel

Coordinator of Professional Development

651-772-4252

mallory at minnesotahumanities.org <mailto:mallory at minnesotahumanities.org>


	
		

 

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