1950s: Building the American Dream Exhibit Kick-Off Webinar

The Creative Learning Factory is proud to present the 1950s: Building the American Dream Kick-Off Webinar in anticipation of the Ohio Historical Society’s newest exhibition opening on July 13 at the Ohio History Center in Columbus, Ohio.  Join Dr. Chester Pach, Professor of History at Ohio University, as he investigates 1950s politics, popular culture, and social issues, and invites participants to rethink this defining decade.

Dr. Pach is joined by Cameron Wood, History Curator at the Ohio Historical Society.  Mr. Wood will provide a comprehensive history of the Lustron Corporation.  In addition, he will share his experience building the Lustron home, acquired by OHS in 2012, which is the central piece of the new exhibition, 1950s: Building the American Dream.

This webinar is free.

1950s: Building the American Dream opens at the Ohio History Center in Columbus, Ohio, on July 13, 2013 and features a full-size Lustron home built inside the museum.  From the contents of the closets and cupboards to the news on TV and the toys in the yard, this remarkably real exhibit is a fascinating journey back in time.  This fun, hands-on experience encourages visitors to explore, touch, try, and fully immerse themselves in a living history.  Visit www.ohiohistory.org for more information.

Chester Pach will detail the emergence of leisure time in the late 19^th century, especially the rise of amusement parks, such as Coney Island in Cincinnati, Olentangy Park in Columbus, and Cedar Point. The webinar will also feature a historical thinking session by Molly Uline-Olmstead, Creative Learning Engineer.

About the Presenter: Dr. Chester Pach is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, where he teaches recent U.S. history and U.S. international history. He has written "Arming The Free World: The Origins of the United States Military Assistance Program, 1945-1949", "The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower", and "The Johnson Years", as well as many articles and book chapters. His next book, "The Presidency of Ronald Reagan", will be published shortly, by the University Press of Kansas.

The Textbook Tuesdays webinar series consists of monthly professional development webinars for teachers subscribing to the Ohio Historical Society's Ohio as America online textbook.

The topic of this webinar is "Getting the Most of Ohio as America." This webinar will help teachers identify strategies for maximizing the impact of the textbook in the classroom.

Our presenters will be Creative Learning Engineers Dr. Betsy Hedler and Mark Butler.

Registration for this event is now open!

Join Professor Daniel Kobil for this primer for teachers on the First Amendment and the application of the amendment in the classroom.  The webinar will feature a content session with Professor Kobil as well as a historical thinking session with Dr. Betsy Hedler, Creative Learning Engineer.

About the Presenter:  Daniel Kobil has been teaching constitutional law, criminal procedure, and comparative constitutional law at the Capital University Law School since 1987. Professor Kobil has researched and published extensively on the subject of executive clemency, especially as it relates to the death penalty. He also writes on First Amendment Law. His work has been cited by courts, including the United States Supreme Court, and legal journals. He also is a frequent contributor to newspaper, television, and radio reports on constitutional issues.

The Textbook Tuesdays webinar series consists of monthly professional development webinars for teachers subscribing to the Ohio Historical Society's Ohio as America online textbook.

The topic of this webinar is "Teaching the Founding Documents." This webinar will help teachers address Ohio Social Studies Content Statements 4.2, 4.5, 4.19, and 4.21.

Our presenter will be Stacia Kuceyeski, CEO of Creative Learning.

The Textbook Tuesdays webinar series consists of monthly professional development webinars for teachers subscribing to the Ohio Historical Society's Ohio as America online textbook.

The topic of this webinar is "The Human Impact on Ohio’s Environment." This webinar will help teachers address Ohio Social Studies Content Statement 4.12.

Our presenter will be Tutti Jackson, Creative Learning Engineer.

The Textbook Tuesdays webinar series consists of monthly professional development webinars for teachers subscribing to the Ohio Historical Society's Ohio as America online textbook.

The topic of this webinar is "Encouraging Fourth Graders to Save Money." This webinar will help teachers address Ohio Social Studies Content Statement 4.24.

Our presenter will be Dr. Betsy Hedler, Creative Learning Engineer.

The Textbook Tuesdays webinar series consists of monthly professional development webinars for teachers subscribing to the Ohio Historical Society's Ohio as America online textbook.

The topic of this webinar is "Getting To and Through Ohio." This webinar will help teachers address Ohio Social Studies Content Statement 4.14.

Our presenter will be Becki Trivison, Creative Learning Engineer.

The Textbook Tuesdays webinar series consists of monthly professional development webinars for teachers subscribing to the Ohio Historical Society's Ohio as America online textbook.

The topic of this webinar is "Strategies for Promoting Civic Participation." This webinar will help teachers address Ohio Social Studies Content Statement 4.16.

Our presenter will be Mary Bezbatchenko, State Coordinator of National History Day in Ohio.

The Textbook Tuesdays webinar series consists of monthly professional development webinars for teachers subscribing to the Ohio Historical Society's Ohio as America online textbook.

The topic of this webinar is "Cooperation and Conflict in Early Ohio." This webinar will help teachers address Ohio Social Studies Content Statement 4.3.

Our presenter will be Molly Uline-Olmstead, Creative Learning Engineer.

The Textbook Tuesdays webinar series consists of monthly professional development webinars for teachers subscribing to the Ohio Historical Society's Ohio as America online textbook.

The topic of this webinar is "Making Entrepreneurialism Engaging." This webinar will help teachers address Ohio Social Studies Content Statement 4.23.

Our presenter will be Dr. Betsy Hedler, Creative Learning Engineer.

The Textbook Tuesdays webinar series consists of monthly professional development webinars for teachers subscribing to the Ohio Historical Society's Ohio as America online textbook.

The topic of this webinar is "Ohio’s Economic Influence." This webinar will help teachers address Ohio Social Studies Content Statement 4.10.

Our presenter will be Mark Butler, Creative Learning Engineer.

This webinar will take place during the summer of 2013.  The current date is a placeholder.  Registrants will be informed of the actual date once it has been established.  We apologize for any inconvenience.

The Founding of America Documents Program was created by the Ohio Historical Society to help teachers successfully implement changes to Ohio’s new Learning Standards in Social Studies based on the Founding of America Documents Bill.

The teacher professional development webinars feature content experts on the text and historical context of each of the featured founding documents.  Each webinar will also include strategies for teaching the founding documents in Ohio’s social studies classrooms.

The webinar series is free to public school teachers throughout Ohio. Recordings of the webinars will also be available.

This  teacher professional development webinar series is funded by a grant from the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation.

This presentation will focus on how museums are developing school programming around 21^st century skill techniques such as problem solving, critical thinking, and collaboration.  Specifically it will focus on the approaches the Kentucky Historical Society has adopted to meet these growing trends in formal and informal education and learning and how inquiry-based learning is fueling the push toward the development of 21^st century skills and thinking. 

Mike Deetsch is Student Programs Manager for the Kentucky Historical Society.  In this role he oversees all programming for young people through onsite and outreach programming.  Mr. Deetsch has ten years of programming experience in museums and the classroom.  He holds a B.A. in Art History from Hanover College and an M.S. in Art Education from Pratt Institute.

This webinar with give an overview of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in ELA and Math including how they were developed and how they fit into the greater discussion of standards-based education. The presentation will examine how each set of CCSS is structured and then provide some strategies for designing new museum programs and activities that are aligned to the CCSS and reverse engineering existing programs and activities for alignment. Finally, it will outline some key benefits to the CCSS like the encouragement of interdisciplinary instruction.

Using the Forest as a Social Studies Resource
Tuesday, June 11, 2013          8:30am-3:00pm          Wayne National Forest, Nelsonville, Ohio

This workshop will provide teachers with an opportunity to experience a model outdoor education program and strategies for using outdoor education to enrich the social studies curriculum.

The workshop will begin with an outdoor education program presented by Rural Action.

The Creative Learning Factory will then facilitate a historical thinking activity with primary source materials related to the history of Wayne National Forest and its surrounding area.  Participants will learn how to: differentiate and analyze primary and secondary sources; understand bias and points of view in primary and secondary sources; formulate questions through inquiry and determining their importance; and construct a narrative based on research and the evaluation of evidence. 

Presenters will work with teachers to help them flesh out a plan of action for incorporating environmental education into their humanities curriculum.  Participants will receive a CD with all materials used during the workshop including presentations, activity sheets and other resources. 

The registration fee includes all program materials and lunch.

These workshops will provide teachers with an opportunity to experience a model outdoor education program and strategies for using outdoor education to the curriculum.

Both workshops will begin with an outdoor education program presented by Rural Action.

The Creative Learning Factory will follow with historical thinking and other sample classroom activities that address English Language Arts, Fine Arts, and Social Studies curriculum standards.

Using the Forest as a Social Studies Resource
Tuesday, June 11, 2013          8:30am-3:00pm          Wayne National Forest, Nelsonville, Ohio

Outdoor Education and the Humanities
Wednesday, June 12, 2013          8:30am-3:00pm          Ohio University, Athens, Ohio (Ridges Building 21)

The registration fee inlcudes all program materials and lunch.

Outdoor Education and the Humanities
Wednesday, June 12, 2013          8:30am-3:00pm          Ohio University, Athens, Ohio (Ridges Building 21)

This workshop will provide teachers with an opportunity to experience a model outdoor education program and strategies for using outdoor education to address key skills identified in curriculum standards.

The first half of the workshop will consist of an outdoor education program presented by Rural Action. During the second half of the workshop, the Creative Learning Factory will lead sample classroom activities that address English Language Arts, Fine Arts, and Social Studies curriculum standards.

Presenters will work with teachers to help them flesh out a plan of action for incorporating environmental education into their humanities curriculum. Participants will receive a CD with all materials used during the workshop including presentations, activity sheets and other resources.

The registration fee includes all program materials and lunch.

This two day session will feature content sessions and hands-on historical thinking sessions on Paul Laurence Dunbar the first African American poet to live by his pen. Professor Thomas Morgan will give a historical overview of Dunbar and introduce some of the key aspects and challenges of his life and career. Creative Learning Engineer Molly Uline-Olmstead will lead participants through hands-on, minds-on applications that unpack Dunbar’s work and history by applying Social Studies and the ELA Common Core skills and content. Participants will also tour the Dunbar house. Finally, the group will be treated to performances by esteemed poet and Dunbar scholar Dr. Herbert Martin.

The Paul Laurence Dunbar House is an Italianate turn-of-the-century structure and the final home of the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. It exhibits his literary treasures, many of his personal items and his family's furnishings. Among items on display are Dunbar's bicycle built by the Wright brothers; the desk and chair where the poet composed much of his work; his collection of Native American art; and a ceremonial sword presented to Dunbar by President Theodore Roosevelt. As a result of a 2002-2003 capital improvement project, the Dunbar has been completely renovated and restored to furnishings and wallpapers common, and some instances exactly, of the time period when Paul and his mother Matilda lived in the house. A new visitor center was also constructed on site, containing interpretive panels chronicling Dunbar's life.

Registration is FREE and participants will receive a certificate for12.5 contact hours.

Industrialization in Dayton and the U.S.

This two day session will feature content sessions and hands-on historical thinking sessions on Industry in the United States and Dayton, Ohio. Professor John Heitmann will give a historical overview of the business, economic, and political influences of industrialization. Dr. Susan Spellman will present on how industrialization impacted the domestic sphere. Creative Learning Engineers Molly Uline-Olmstead and Ryan Cairney will lead participants through hands-on, minds-on applications that examine these aspects of industrialization by applying Social Studies and STEM skills and content.

Presenter Bios

Dr. John Heitmann

At the University of Dayton since 1984, Professor Heitmann has taught a wide variety of courses in the history of science and technology and environmental history. Active on numerous departmental, college, and university committees, Heitmann served as chair of the Department of History between 1991 and 1995. He has an active research agenda exploring connection between science, technology and religion, and additionally pursues topics related to the history of the automobile. In his leisure time, he continues to restore a 1971 Porsche 911T Targa and plays tennis in USTA leagues. Professor Heitmann is the past Alumni Chair in the Humanities. University of Dayton Website (http://www.udayton.edu/directory/artssciences/history/heitmann_john.php)

Dr. Susan Spellman

Born and raised in Ohio, she is a professor of history, focusing on Gilded Age-Progressive Era business history, with an emphasis on small business and entrepreneurship. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the American Historical Association, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, and the Harvard Business School, and published in Enterprise & Society, the Journal of Popular Culture, as well as Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present. She regularly teaches courses on the Progressive Era, American business, and U.S. consumer culture. Dr. Spellman has extensive experience working with K-12 educators and currently serves as Co-Director and Academic Director of Miami University Hamilton’s Teaching American History grant, Hometown American History. Dr. Spellman has received teaching awards from Carnegie Mellon University’s Graduate School as well as CMU’s Department of History. She holds a Ph.D. in American history from Carnegie Mellon University. University of Miami Website (http://www.units.muohio.edu/history/user/81)

Using the Ohio Statehouse as a Teaching Tool
Join the Creative Learning Factory and the Ohio Statehouse Museum Education Center as we discuss ways to use the Ohio Statehouse as a teaching tool. The day will include historical thinking based activities for the classroom as well as an in-depth tour of the Statehouse.

Wednesday, July 24, 2012, 9am-3pm
State Room 108, Ohio Statehouse, 1 Capitol Square, Columbus, Ohio
Registration: FREE
Space is limited to the first 30 registrants.

For more information about your visit to the Statehouse and parking go to: www.ohiostatehouse.org

Participants will receive a certificate for 5.0 contact hours.

Our presenters will be Creative Learning Engineers Becki Trivison and Mark Butler.

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1950s:  Building the American Dream

This workshop is the first in an annual series of professional development opportunities focused on the Ohio Historical Society’s newest exhibit, 1950s: Building the American Dream. 

This workshop will offer participants a general overview of the 1950s with content being provided by Dr. Chester Pach from Ohio University and Dr. John Heitmann from the University of Dayton.  Dr. Pach will provide a historical overview of the 1950s as well as discuss the music of the decade and its impact on popular culture.  Dr. Heitmann will build on this foundation with a discussion centered on the car culture of the 1950s and the increasing role automobiles played in people’s lives.

The Creative Learning Factory will then facilitate a historical thinking activity with primary source materials related to the 1950s.  Participants will learn how to: differentiate and analyze primary and secondary sources; understand bias and points of view in primary and secondary sources; formulate questions through inquiry and determining their importance; and construct a narrative based on research and the evaluation of evidence.

Participants will have the opportunity to take a tour of the exhibit, which features a full-size Lustron home built inside the museum.  From the contents of the closets and cupboards to the news on TV and the toys in the yard, this remarkably real exhibit is a fascinating journey back in time.  This fun, hands-on experience encourages visitors to explore, touch, try, and fully immerse themselves in a living history.   For more information about the exhibit, visit www.ohiohistory.org.

The registration fee includes all program materials and lunch.