Outreach

Consistent with the University's legacy as a land grant institution, the outreach efforts of the Goldberg Center seek to connect the History department with the citizens of Ohio and the world beyond.

History Teaching Institute: The History Teaching Institute is the primary outreach unit of the Goldberg Center, sharing the History Department's expertise and enthusiasm for teaching history with Ohio's K-12 teachers. The staff of the History Teaching Institute works with teachers to develop standards-based social studies curricula, to incorporate primary sources into classroom instruction, and to employ technology to improve teaching and learning in schools across the state. The HTI has been the recipient of several Teaching American History grants from the U.S. Department of Education, through which the staff offers seminars and summer institutes with content presentations by History Department faculty.

Visual composition and new media in the social studies: This is a presentation made by the Goldberg Director to teachers across the state. It offers guidelines for assessing student-produced visual compositions, such as PowerPoints, websites, iMovies and exhibitions.

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The Opper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History: The HTI's website includes access to The Opper Project, a joint production with the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library. The Opper Project is an on-line collection of historic editorial cartoons suitable for classroom use. Covering more than one hundred years of American history, the cartoons are organized topically with associated teacher-created lesson plans tied to the Ohio Academic Content Standards.

Cold Cases: Lessons in Historical Skills and Methods: Using digitalized collections from the Byrd Polar Research Center, this is a collection of plans that promote historical thinking skills; with each lesson plan, students use primary sources to determine what happened in the past. A variety of sources - including photos, letters, diaries, reports, and memoirs - are represented and the lessons take a variety of approaches.

eHistory: eHistory.osu.edu is the digital outreach portal of the Goldberg Center Reaching an audience of K-12 teachers, students and history enthusiasts, eHistory connects with over 80,000 viewers a month around the world, and is noted especially for its collection of primary sources (including the well-regarded "Official Records of the Civil War") and collections of historic maps and images. eHistory also features multimedia histories, such as on-line exhibitions, digital films and interactive sites. eHistory also publishes monthly book reviews.

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