Virginia Center for Digital History

Outreach
	Distance Learning Civil Rights in U.S. and Virginia History The goal of this class is to offer a seminar experience in the study of the American Civil Rights movement through distance learning technology.
	The J.F. Bell Funeral Home Records: Charlottesville 1921-1969 Sponsored by the African-American Genealogy Group of Charlottesville, Virginia, in collaboration with The Virginia Center for Digital History and the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia.
	The Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Project (LCBP) seeks to use the scholarly expertise and resources available at the University of Virginia in order to serve both the University community and the general public
	The University of Virginia Multimedia Guide to the Virginia Standards of Learning: Grade 11 Virginia and United States History" a joint report by the Miller Center for Public Affairs and the Virginia Center for Digital History

Teaching Materials

Lesson Plans for K-12 Social Studies Classes (Virginia SOL and National History Standards Linked)

These lesson plans draw on material from the Valley of the Shadow: Two American Communities in the Civil War and Virtual Jamestown and are designed to help teachers implement the new Virginia Standards of Learning and the National History Standards. They were developed in partnership with the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education.

Digital History in the Classroom: allows students to explore the raw materials of our past.

Read how one high school teacher in Baltimore makes use of the Valley of the Shadow site to help prepare his students for the Document-Based Question portion of the AP History exam. The article, by Daniel Kotzin, appeared in the August 2001 issue of "The History Teacher."

The University of Virginia Multimedia Guide to the Virginia Standards of Learning: Grade 11 Virginia and United States History

We offer this guide as a supplement to the DOE's Teacher Resource Guide, as a review of the standards and their implications for teaching history, and as an attempt to help teachers apply the vast resources of the Web to their standards-based curriculum.

Conferences & Workshops

Civil Rights in the U.S. & Virginia: Two-week seminar for Virginia High School Teachers June 23 - July 3, 2003

Free Saturday Workshop for K-12 teachers: Teaching the History of American Slavery November 9, 2002

Weekend Digital History Workshop: The Online Archives of the Virginia Center for Digital History and AP U.S. History Teaching October 4-5, 2002