| BH-50329-09 | Education Programs: Landmarks of American History and Culture for K-12 Educators | Penn State | A Rising People: Benjamin Franklin and the Americans | 10/1/2009 - 12/31/2010 | $168,012.00 | George | W. | Boudreau | | | | Penn State | University Park | PA | 16802-1503 | USA | 2009 | U.S. History | Landmarks of American History and Culture for K-12 Educators | Education Programs | 168012 | 0 | 168012 | 0 | Two Landmarks workshops for eighty teachers on Benjamin Franklin's life and social environment in eighteenth-century Philadelphia.
Hosted by the School of Humanities at Penn State Harrisburg in partnership with a coalition of historic sites and organization in Philadelphia, this grant will sponsor two one-week workshops for K-12 teachers, to be held in the summer of 2010. Teachers will be chosen from a national competition, and will be exposed to cutting-edge interdisciplinary humanities scholarship as well as unparalleled access to come of the most significant sites in American History. |