Ellendale Team Selected for Program in Hawai'i
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USS Arizona at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial
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Anna Elsen, a student at Ellendale High School in Ellendale, North Dakota, and her history teacher, Candice Klipfel, make up one of only 16 student-teacher teams from across the United States selected to participate in the second annual Sacrifice for Freedom: World War II in the Pacific Student & Teacher Institute. The program, coordinated through National History Day, is sponsored by Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum, the USS Missouri Memorial Association, and Pacific Historic Parks. Applications for the second annual Sacrifice for Freedom: World War II in the Pacific Student & Teacher Institute were submitted by 129 teams from across the country. The 16 teams selected for the 2020 institute represent American Samoa, California, Georgia, Hawai‘i, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
This institute brings student-teacher teams together for the distinctive opportunity to study, consider, and reflect upon World War II. Over the next six months, students and teachers will read books and selected materials, engage in online discussions, and research a Silent Hero, a military service member who died in World War II and is buried or memorialized at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. In June, the teams will meet in Oʻahu where they will walk in the footsteps of history, and learn firsthand about the impact of World War II in the Pacific. Travel and program expenses are provided for all participants. The experience will culminate with the completion and presentation of the teams’ Silent Hero eulogies and profiles, which will be featured on NHDSilentHeroes.org, as well as the websites of the sponsoring organizations.
National History Day in North Dakota, an annual program of the State Historical Society of North Dakota, encourages students in grades 6–12 to research and create unique projects that showcase their creativity, critical thinking skills, and love of history. The State Historical Society provides teachers with engaging resources and research tools to help students build a deeper understanding of North Dakota. For more information, contact state coordinator Danielle Stuckle at dlstuckle@nd.gov or 701.328.2794. Learn more at history.nd.gov.
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Main Street Community Education Grants
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The State Historical Society of North Dakota is excited to announce a new category available through the Cultural Heritage Grant Program specifically for educators.
Applications are now available for the development of new curriculum and resources along with other education projects. Read more here.
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National WWII Museum to Honor Student Leaders
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Each year the National World War II Museum selects one student from every state who demonstrates the American Spirit in their community for the Billy Michal Student Leadership Award. The award is given to young people who demonstrate the values of leadership, teamwork, tolerance, creativity, and perseverance. The award honors six-year-old Billy Michal from Zimmerman, Louisiana, who helped his one-room school win a statewide scrap-metal collection contest during World War II. He understood that every citizen—no matter how small—could contribute to our victory in the war.
These 51 student leaders will be invited to attend the 2020 American Spirit Awards where they will represent their state at the prestigious Leadership Luncheon. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A session with the American Spirit Awards medallion recipients, meet fellow recipients, explore New Orleans and the Museum, and meet Billy Michal himself.
The Museum is currently taking nominations from across the country for these awards. Nominees should have a strong record of volunteerism, school and/or community activism, or implementing creative solutions to recognized problems. Selected awardees will be flown (along with a chaperone) to New Orleans to participate in the Museum's American Spirit Awards celebration, June 11-12, 2020.
Nominate your student now!
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North Dakota: People Living on the Land is a web-based North Dakota Studies curriculum designed for grade 8, but high school students and adults will also discover much interesting information. The curriculum includes 91 topics on the history of North Dakota and is complemented with documents, photographs, maps, and films. It covers the place that is today North Dakota from about 500 million years ago to current events. Topics range from the formation of soil to the recent oil boom; from the quarrying of flint to Bobcat manufacturing.
North Dakota: People Living on the Land is not only based on primary sources, but presents readers with documents to help understand North Dakota’s history and culture. The course includes a curriculum with primary sources, maps that can expand on the screen to reveal the smallest creek or village, and photographs that can be examined in detail—now realized with an interactive website.
Unlike the traditional, chronological organization typical of most history texts, this new curriculum allows users to study in greater depth when they read a topic of interest. North Dakota: People Living on the Land uses both a chronological and thematic organization. The curriculum is divided into four chronological units from the Paleozoic Era to the present. Within each unit are four thematic lessons. Teachers and other users may choose a topic subject across the millions of years covered in the curriculum or examine a particular time period through geographic, economic, social, and political perspectives.
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Talk to a Museum Educator
North Dakota Studies will have a booth at the North Dakota STEM Conference, “Innovation in Education,” March 13-14, 2020, at Cheney Middle School, 825 17th Avenue East, West Fargo. Learn about opportunities to offer input related to the development of the new high school curriculum and grants available to you. This conference is a collaboration between the North Dakota Council of Teachers of Mathematics and North Dakota Science Teachers Association.
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