8/5/06 * Daily Progress [full story]
History teachers in five local school divisions will get a chance to “live and breathe” the story of Virginia’s role in American history, thanks to the University of Virginia’s Virginia Center for Digital History and a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Teachers in the city of Charlottesville and Albemarle, Greene, Madison and Orange counties will participate in the three-year program, titled “The Virginia Experiment: Growing Seeds of Democracy in Four Hundred Years of American History.”
About 70 local U.S. history teachers of grades four, five, six, seven and 11 will take part in the project, which will focus on lectures by scholars at state historical sites and the examination of primary documents using university online resources.
Teachers will be prepared for the program through a series of five-day summer courses that place them at the historical sites that they will teach about.
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