Description: Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms: A Workshop Series for Chicago's Teachers

The Newberry Library's Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, with the funding support of the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, is pleased to announce its second program of workshops for metropolitan Chicago's K-12 teachers to be held at the Library during the summer and fall of 1999. This series will assist participating teachers in the development of their own age-appropriate strategies for enhancing their students' geography, history, and social studies skills through classroom use of historic maps. The workshops will introduce participants to the Newberry's map collection, including original maps dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Participants will have the opportunity to develop their map research skills and to develop effective lessons and exercises utilizing historic maps. Each participating teacher will receive free teaching materials including a teachers' guide, lesson plans, color transparencies, and other map reproductions.

Sessions will be held all day (9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.) at the Newberry Library in Chicago. The second series will be held on three consecutive Saturdays: September 25, October 2, and October 9. Topics for each day's workshops are as follows:

Day One: Cartography & World Views Find new ways to teach basic map skills with old and unusual maps. Find out how maps provide a window into the past and current perspectives of other cultures and societies.

Day Two: Teaching American History & Geography Teach with the maps that witnessed and shaped American history, focusing on transportation, settlement, economic development, regional cultures, environmental factors, and major events.

Day Three: Teaching Local History & Geography Explore the geographical dimensions of Chicago's history and how history shaped our local landscape.

Workshops are open to K-12 educators from throughout the Chicago metropolitan area. Space in each workshops, is however, limited to 25 persons, who will be selected on a competitive basis. Teachers may attend one or two workshops or an entire series of three workshops. Preference in the selection of participants will be given to those wishing to attend an entire series. Chicago Public School teachers may indicate if they are interested in receiving Lane Promotional Credit for participating in a complete workshop series. Registration for Series II closes on July 1. Teachers will be notified of acceptance into the program within three weeks of these closing dates.

To receive an application form or for more information please contact Dr. James Akerman (312-255-3523) or Kristen Block (312-255-3659)