The workshop will be held at the National Archives at College Park , in the Washington, DC, area from Monday, June 25, to Tuesday, July 3. At the start of the workshop, we will orient you to the resources of the National Archives and to using them in the classroom. The focus will be the research and development of teaching materials around a subject of interest to you and the design of a professional workshop for classroom teachers.
Participants are responsible for their own food, housing, and travel arrangements.
At the close of the workshop, each participant will describe his or her workshop plans. The National Archives preserves and makes available to the public the permanently valuable records of the U.S. Government. Although the best known of these are the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, there are millions of documents, maps, drawings, photographs, films, sound recordings and computer tapes in the Archives holdings that document the American experience of government from 1774 to the present. The National Archives comprises the richest record of America's past in the nation, and all of this material is available to teachers. The following facts about the organization of the National Archives and its holdings may help you select your topic.