| BH-50400-10 | Education Programs: Landmarks of American History and Culture for K-12 Educators | Penn State | A Rising People: Benjamin Franklin and the Americans | 10/1/2010 - 6/30/2012 | $180,000.00 | George | W. | Boudreau | | | | Penn State | University Park | PA | 16802-1503 | USA | 2010 | U.S. History | Landmarks of American History and Culture for K-12 Educators | Education Programs | 180000 | 0 | 179128.21 | 0 | Two one-week Landmarks workshops for eighty school teachers to explore Benjamin Franklin's influence on the American people through the sites and environs of 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 2011. Teachers will be chosen from a national competition, and will be exposed to cutting-edge interdisciplinary humanities scholarship as well as unparalleled access to some of the most significant sites in American History. |