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2022 Spring Teachers Workshop
Use this professional development opportunity to explore the brand-new Guide to Student Research and Historical Argumentation filled with hints, tips, and activities to encourage student inquiry and historical research.
Great Migration Summer Teacher Institute
This week-long institute in July 2022 will engage teachers in the exploration of the Great Migration-related special exhibitions and time period, as well as ideas about public memory, self-determination, and resilience using primary resources—both historical and artistic.
36th Social Studies Teachers Workshop
Workshop Session Recordings
Two Mississippi Museums Field Trips Presentation
Two Mississippi Museums, 2021
How to Effectively Teach Slavery in the Classroom
Teacher Panel, 2021
Mississippians in the Civil War
Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi, 2021
Engaging Students with Primary Sources (Reconstruction Amendments)
National History Day, 2021
A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration
Mississippi Museum of Art, 2021
35th Social Studies Teachers Workshop
Workshop Session Recordings
Explanation Game Presentation
Teaching Primary Sources Mississippi, 2020
Explanation Game Resources Sheet
Teaching Primary Sources Mississippi, 2020
MDAH Digital Education Resources
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 2020
Oral Histories, Memories, and the Teaching of World War II
National World War II Museum 2020