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Hello to Our Teacher Friends!

On Saturday, January 8, we hosted 39 teachers for a program here at the museum. We happened to be one of the stops on a whirlwind tour titled “Defenders of the Chesapeake”, which was put together by our colleague Winette Jefferies from the Hampton History Museum. The agenda for the day was a behind-the-scenes tour of Fort Monroe and The Casemate Museum, a lecture about Ft. Wool and tour at the Historic Chamberlin, a drive down Chesapeake Avenue from Hampton to Newport News (with a stop at Anderson Park for a review of the actual Battle of Hampton Roads site), and finally ending here at the museum for a brief tour of the Monitor Center exhibition, including a special behind-the-scenes peek in the Batten Conservation Complex.

Our visitors came to see us thanks to a partnership between the Hampton History Museum, Newport News Public Schools, and a Teaching American History Grant titled “Voices Of A Nation”. They are currently in year two of the grant which encompasses five years of workshops, tours, and innovative projects for Social Studies teachers K-12. Their theme for this year highlights the Civil War era, which is great timing, considering all the commemorative events on the horizon.

For those of you who have not heard of the Teaching American History grants, here is a link to the grant website. http://www2.ed.gov/programs/teachinghistory/index.html

Thanks to Winette Jefferies, Education and Public Relations at Hampton History Museum, and our own Anne Marie Millar, Director of Education and Distance Learning Programs, for including our conservation project in the program.

I hope everyone got some great ideas for use in their classrooms, and plan to come back visit us again!

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