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Missouri Humanities Council e-News | April 2009 | View Online | ||||||||||
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In this issue:
Museum Conference, April 24-25, Cape GirardeauLast call! When we offered this program last fall in western Missouri, the sessions made an immediate impact. Added to the upcoming conference is a sensational new demo of our volunteer training program by the program's designer, Alisha Cole. Get on board with visitor-centered thinking and ways and means of creating excellent connections to schools. Learn more about the conference. Growing a Child's Brain
Jane Smiley Helps ReadMOre Engage People Across the State
This reading celebration invites readers, libraries, schools, private book clubs, booksellers and others to focus their attention on a single book each Spring. Interested people read the selection and host or join book discussions across the state. Everyone is invited to participate … no entry, no rules, no nonsense – just a great read and stimulating conversation. Border War Archaeology for Teachers at the Bates County Museum
The Bates County Museum is a partner in this venture, I'm happy to report. We have a PDF file with all the details about the course, including an application form. View it here. Results of Missouri's National History Day CompetitionI'm happy that we've been able to support National History Day in Missouri. It's a sponsored activity of the State Historical Society of Missouri and the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection in Columbia. We've expanded our side of the partnership this year to help NHD promote an expansion of participation in places where there could be a lot more activity. National History Day is a great example of partnerships between schools and families in support of eager young learners. Among the youngsters who won this year may be future authors, documentary producers, professors, or University Chancellors! Read more about the results this year. From Civil War to Civil Rights - Audio Tour on a ThemeCarol Bohl, Coordinator of the Border War Network in Cass County, sent this note to the twenty-plus museums who are working together on the stories of the Kansas-Missouri troubles. "This is a very cool concept of how to produce an audio tour based on a theme. We as the Border War Network could easily do this with our podcasts and link them to a map of our sites." Civil War to Civil Rights Misconceptions in a Mainstream CultureOur museum consultant, Erin Blackshere Pouppirt, writes about her experiences as a "Real Indian" on a return visit to France. Read her essay. Red Cross Offers Curriculum on Humanitarian LawWe got word last week that the St. Louis Chapter of the Red Cross has been selected as a pilot chapter for disseminating curriculum support on the principles of humanitarian law. "Exploring Humanitarian Law" has a "Virtual Campus" on the web. There are downloadable resources and a good overview of the concept. Quoting from their web site, "EHL is not explicitly concerned with peace, tolerance, mutual understanding, prevention of violence or conflict resolution. It emphasizes the positive changes in attitude that can evolve from the ideas of respect for life and human dignity, civic responsibility, and solidarity. Thus, EHL can be incorporated in a wide range of different subject areas that fall under the broad heading of citizenship education. " The content of EHL is linked to academic subjects such as civics, social studies, philosophy, history, law, and literature. Its teaching methods reinforce many important academic and life skills such as communication, disagreeing respectfully, reasoning, research, problem-solving and critical thinking." Read more about the curriculum... Support the Council
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Gardens are coming alive this month, and Julie Douglas, who says she is not much of a gardener, writes about the child's capacity for intelligence. Like a plant, a young brain is some kind of miracle. All the cells are mostly there in the skull by the age of 3. Imagine that! The quality of how those cells operate is influenced by how people interact with that child. 
"There I was, holding history in my hands!" That the way it feels to participate in a field archaeology project. Now UMKC is offering a credit-bearing course for those who want to help at the Kansas-Missouri Border War dig in Bates County. 