Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Place: Technology Learning Center, Harper Building, OUSD
Time: 8:30 AM ? 3:30 PM
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Evaluation website for TAH Grant
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Gray Brechin Website
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California?s Living New Deal Project
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the New Deal Network
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
and Museum
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America from the Great Depression
to WWII: Black-and-White
Photographs from
the FSA-OWI 1935-1945
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Lesson Plans Website
8:30 ? 9:00
Welcome and announcements
9:00 ? 10:25
Lesson Study work time
10:25 ? 10:45
Matt Russell, Center for Evaluation and Research
An update on the evaluation ? standards survey and assessment
10:45 ? 12:00
Speaker: Gray Brechin California Living New Deal Project
California New Deal Update
12:00 ? 12:45
Lunch (provided by grant)
12:45 ? 3:00
Lesson Study work time
3:00 ? 3:30
Lesson Study groups report ? what? (student and teacher questions); when?; and where?
Evaluation
Links from the Speaker's Presentation
http://graybrechin.net/ - Our speaker, Gray Brechin?s, website ? Links to full-text articles, books, and appearances.
http://livingnewdeal.berkeley.edu - Website of California?s Living New Deal Project provides internet-based resources for New Deal information, studies, and discussions. The ?News and Links? section provides links to articles and websites on the New Deal. It also contains a searchable online database and digital map that enables website visitors to discover what the New Deal did for their communities and serves as an electronic guidebook to New Deal sites throughout California. The digital map shows spatially the extent and variety of New Deal sites and will grow as sites are identified.
http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org - Website of the ?California Historical Society?
http://www.irle.berkeley.edu - Website of University of California?s ?Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.? This institute hosts the California Living New Project website.
http://newdeal.feri.org/ - Website of the New Deal Network. An extensive archive of New Deal articles, primary sources, and lesson plans.
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/educat33.html - Website of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum. The site focuses on providing educational resources for teachers and students.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 collection consists of 908 colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. A related website provides lesson plans and classroom activities connected to the contents of the website - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/poster/
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html America from the Great Depression to WWII: Black-and-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI 1935-1945
black-and-white photographs of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection, a landmark in the history of documentary photography. From their site, ?The images show Americans at home, at work, and at play, with an emphasis on rural and small-town life and the adverse effects of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and increasing farm mechanization. Some of the most famous images portray people who were displaced from farms and migrated West or to industrial cities in search of work.?
A related website provides lesson plans and classroom activities connected to the content of the website - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/fsa/