Dear Teachers:

How would you like to spend the mornings discussing your passion for American history with distinguished university professors, go on field trips to more than a dozen historic farms, mills and laboratories, and in the afternoons, plan activities for your students?  Would you like to develop methods of using all five of your senses and your students’ different learning styles to bring America’s Industrial Revolution out of the books and into living history? 

The story of America’s Industrial Revolution is an epic tale, full of heroes and heroines, villains and vagabonds, accomplishments and failures, sweated toil and elegant mechanisms, grand visions and unintended consequences.  How did the United States evolve from a group of 18^th century agricultural colonies clustered along the eastern seaboard into the world’s greatest industrial power?  Why did this nation become the seedbed of so many important 19^th century inventions and the birthplace of assembly-line mass production in the early 20^th century?  Who contributed?  Who benefited?  Who was left behind?

School teachers, university scholars and museum curators will explore this story during two, week-long teacher workshops supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities offered June 21-26 and July 19-24, 2009, at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan. Teachers will receive a $750 stipend to defray expenses.

Applications are streaming in from across the country. As Michigan teachers, don’t miss out on this wonderful learning opportunity. Space is limited to only 40 participants for each workshop. Apply today! Completed applications must be postmarked by March 16, 2009.  Successful applicants will be notified of their selection by April 15, 2009 and will have until April 22, 2009 to accept or decline the offer.

Please contact us for detailed information or you may call Ryan Spencer, Education Coordinator, Special Projects at 313-982-6100, ext. 2261.  We look forward to receiving your application and welcoming you to The Henry Ford for a week of innovative, experiential and inspirational teaching and learning.

Sincerely,

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