Read History!

Professional Development For Elementary and
Middle School Teachers

Essential Questions

“This experience has been very meaningful to me as a classroom teacher. My eyes have been opened-up to presenting different sides of recorded history and developing strategies to select materials that are meaningful for my students.”

Essential Questions

Questions to Review While Creating Your Lesson Plans

American Constitution Workshop

Why and how did the Article of Confederation fail?
What necessitated the need for a new constitution?
How did the fears of the framers of the Constitution lead to scrapping the Articles and making the new Constitution?
Why did the colonists choose to rebel against their own government?
Where can we find Locke’s and others’ writings in our Declaration of Independence?
Why did Americans feel the need to break with Britain and form their own government?
What were the reasons that led men to challenge the “Articles of Confederation”?
How were the Articles of Confederation different than our Constitution today?
Why did the Articles of Confederation fail?