October Conference for Teachers - Workshops and Presentations

Workshops and Presentations

The following is an alphabetical listing of all workshops and presentations. A printer-friendly version of the list of workshops and presentations is available as a PDF file (important information about using PDF files).

19th-Century Amusements
(Friday at 1:30 p.m. / Grade level: Elementary)

225th Anniversary of the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign
(Thursday at 9:00 a.m. / Grade level: All)

Beyond the Textbook: A Focus on Teaching for Multiple Literacies in SS Education
(Friday at 10:30 a.m. / Grade level: Middle – High)

Bringing Social Studies to Life: A Living Museum
(Friday at 10:30 a.m. / Grade level: Elementary)

Digging Up Documents
(Friday at 9:00 a.m. / Grade level: Grade 4 and up)

Discover Cooperstown Close Up
(Thursday at 1:30 p.m. / Grade level: All)

Discovering Artifacts
(Thursday at 1:30 p.m. / Grade level: All)

Documenting the Underground Railroad in Your Community: Can You Do It? Yes, You Can!
(Thursday at 9:00 a.m. / Grade level: All)

An Ecosystems Approach to Learning
(Friday at 9:00 a.m. / Grade level: All)

English Iroquois and Iroquois English: How Two Cultures Produced a Third Culture Through Trade, War, and Diplomacy
(Thursday at 9:00 a.m. / Grade level: Upper Elementary – Middle)

Fenimore Art Museum Tour
(Friday at 1:30 p.m. / Grade level: All)

Geography Sleuths: Using Primary Documents to Develop Critical Thinking Skills
(Thursday at 1:30 p.m. / Grade level: Upper Elementary – High)

Hands On and Beyond
(Thursday at 3:00 p.m. / Grade level: All)

A Harvest of History
(Thursday at 9:00 a.m. / Grade level: Elementary)

Hear My Voice…Feel My Tears
(Thursday at 7:00 p.m. / Grade level: All)

Local History in the Classroom: Using NYS Census Manuscripts and DBQs for Immigration Studies
(Thursday at 3:00 p.m. / Grade level: Middle – High)

New Yarts: Putting the Fun Back in Fourth Grade
(Thursday at 1:30 p.m. / Grade level: Grade 4)

New York State Freedom Trail Curriculum
(Friday at 10:30 a.m. / Grade level: All)

New York State History in Song
(Thursday at 3:00 p.m. / Grade level: Elementary – Middle)

North Star Country: Tracking the Freedom Trail in New York’s Old “Burned-over District”
(Friday at 10:30 a.m. / Grade level: All)

Open Hearth Cooking
(Thursday at 9:00 a.m. / Grade level: All)

People of Courage, People of Hope, Seekers of Justice
(Friday at 9:00 a.m. / Grade level: All)

Presidential Elections: Past Controversies Through Recent History
(Friday at 1:30 p.m. / Grade level: All)

Reaching Across Time and Space Through Baseball and Videoconferencing
(Thursday at 1:30 p.m. / Grade level: Upper Elementary – Middle)

Role of the USCT in the Abolitionist Movement and the Civil War
(Friday at 9:00 a.m. / Grade level: All)

Sing It, Tell It: The History and Mystery of Farms and Food
(Friday at 10:30 a.m. / Grade level: Elementary – Middle)

State Education Update
(Friday at 1:30 p.m. / Grade level: All)

Teaching History with the Newspaper
(Friday at 9:00 a.m. / Grade level: All)

Tracking Trades: Documents of Turn-of-the-Century Workers
(Thursday at 3:00 p.m. / Grade level: Elementary)

Trains, Towpaths & Turnpikes
(Friday at 9:00 a.m. / Grade level: Grade 4 and up)

Using Traditional Sites in Nontraditional Ways
(Thursday at 1:30 p.m. / Grade level: All)

Video Conference Programs at Fenimore Art Museum
(Thursday at 3:00 p.m. / Grade level: All)

Walking Tour of The Farmers’ Museum
(Friday at 1:30 p.m. / Grade level: All)

The War That Made America
(Friday at 10:30 a.m. / Grade level: All)

We Didn’t Start the Fire: America’s Story
(Thursday at 1:30 p.m. / Grade level: All)

The World Turned Upside Down: NYS in the Revolutionary War
(Friday at 9:00 a.m. / Grade level: Elementary – Middle)

Yes, You Can! Getting from Standards to Lesson Plans
(Thursday at 3:00 p.m. / Grade level: Elementary)

Schedule subject to change.

The October Conference for Teachers is sponsored by the New York State Historical Association. © New York State Historical Association.