Teacher Info
Humanities web sites for teachers• http://www.ushistory.com/
• www.scribblingwomen.org
• http://edsitement.neh.gov/
• www.ket.org/underground
• www.uky.edu/AS/Anthropology/Museum
• www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/pds/
History Happens: www.ushistory.com
History Happens uses music videos and an interactive web site to teach American history. Drawing on the power of music to enhance learning, History Happens turns the great stories of American history, such as the Underground Railroad, into original music videos. History Happens is a project of Electron Farm Publications, Lexington, and the Kentucky Humanities Council, Inc.
Scribbling Women: http://www.scribblingwomen.org/
Scribbling Women, a project of The Public Media Foundation of Boston, dramatizes stories by American women writers for national radio broadcast. The recorded plays are on the web site, along with a wide range of classroom resources for teaching and learning the rich tradition of American literature by women.
EDSITEment: http://edsitement.neh.gov/
EDSITEment makes the Internet teacher-friendly. It provides easy links to the top Internet resources for teaching English, history, art history, and foreign languages. Resources available for downloading include poems, stories, novels, historical documents, photographs, fine art reproductions, maps, sound recordings, and film clips.P
EDSITEment offers links to 20 sites, with more to come. A panel of educators and parents has reviewed and endorsed each site. EDSITEment is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities and several partners, including MCI.P
Kentucky's Underground Railroad - Passage to Freedom: www.ket.org/underground
Kentucky's location on the border of slave and nonslave states and its unique geography as the only state surrounded on three sides by rivers, created opportunities for people who were willing to risk their lives to live in freedom, and those willing to risk everything to help them. Kentucky Educational Television (KET) developed this PBS Eddie Award Winning Web Site to help teachers and students learn more about the escape of enslaved African Americans through secret pathways both with and without assistance.P
University of Kentucky Webb Museum of Anthropology: www.uky.edu/AS/Anthropology/Museum
The William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology is part of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. As an anthropology museum, it curates and exhibits artifacts that document many different aspects of human behavior. Some artifacts represent cultures from the "ethnographic present," while others from archaeological contexts provide the only surviving evidence of myriad adaptations to diverse, and at times inhospitable, natural and social environments. The Museum collects, preserves, studies, exhibits, and interprets these objects to reveal the technologies, artistry, and ingenuity of peoples belonging to cultures vastly different from our own modern society. Teacher resources are available at the web site.P
National Humanities Center - Teacher Professional Development Program: http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/pds/pds.htm
The National Humanities Center's Teacher Professional Development Program offers free resources and training for curriculum specialists, in-service coordinators, department chairs, lead teachers and others to create standards-based professional development seminars in American history and literature.P
