| EZ-50207-07 | Education Programs: Faculty Humanities Workshops | City Lore: NY Center for Urban Folk Culture | Heartland Passage: Teaching the Erie Canal in American History | 4/1/2007 - 12/31/2008 | $71,700.00 | Marci | | Reaven | | | | City Lore: NY Center for Urban Folk Culture | New York | NY | 10003-9345 | USA | 2007 | U.S. History | Faculty Humanities Workshops | Education Programs | 71700 | 0 | 71700 | 0 | A four-day workshop for fifty teachers in grades 4-8 on the history of the Erie Canal from its groundbreaking in 1817 to the present day.
"Heartland Passage: Teaching the Erie Canal in American History" is a project of City Lore, in collaboration with the Gotham Center for New York City History at the CUNY Graduate Center, founded by Pulitzer-prize winning author Mike Wallace. We request funding for a faculty humanities workshop at City University of New York (CUNY) in July 2007 for fifty grade 4-8 teachers. We propose to develop, document, evaluate, and disseminate a program that will (a) instruct and engage New York teachers on the impact of a magnificent nineteenth-century construction project which established New York as a world city and port, spurred the growth of other cities along its route, and connected the eastern United States to the Midwest; (b) provide teachers with a wealth of teaching strategies and resource materials (books, curriculum materials, primary documents, and audio/visual materials) to enhance their teaching; and (c) document and disseminate successful units on the history of the canal. |