We believe that understanding and appreciating our cultural heritage and the cultural heritage of others is a route to a better, more peaceful world.

Heritage Education Workshop at the Molly Brown House Museum

Happy Native American Heritage Month! One good way to honor Native heritage is to see the latest American history documentary from Ken Burns and company: “The American Buffalo.” (You’ll also be honoring National Bison Day, November 4!)

We believe that understanding and appreciating our cultural heritage and the cultural heritage of others is a route to a better, more peaceful world.

IHE is proud to to support these 5 wonderful organizations with the award of our 2023 professional development grants.

We believe that understanding and appreciating our cultural heritage and the cultural heritage of others is a route to a better, more peaceful world.

In July of this year, the USA Archaeology Museum hosted a three-day teacher workshop on Project Archaeology’s Investigating Shelter and Investigating a Shotgun House, with partial funding from IHE.USA, its Center for Archaeological Studies, and the Museum recently celebrated 50 years of archaeological research. In that time, USA archaeologists have uncovered an impressive body of knowledge about the human history of the Gulf Coast, via more than 1,250 projects.

The Institute for Heritage Education has completed the first year of a three-year cooperative agreement with the Colorado Bureau of Land Management (BLM). In late June, thirteen educators from Colorado and neighboring states, gathered for the institute, which was held at Grand Junction’s Museums of the West.

The COVID-19 pandemic certainly knocked us all for a loop, but we may be catching up now.  Only two of the professional development events that IHE funded in 2020 were held that year (see Success in the Face of Adversity, 3/10/21).  Since last summer, four more workshops have been completed. These projects are: Professional Development at Cahokia Mounds; Arizona Project Archaeology Workshop for Educators; Workshop for Educators; Project Archaeology: Investigating a Midwestern Wickiup; and Exploring Alabama Archaeology in K-12 Classrooms.

Cultural heritage is a very broad concept, which we at IHE conceive as an inheritance of shared histories and traditions passed down from previous generations and shared by a population.

The Arkansas Archeological Survey (ARAS) conducted four workshops for educators in the summer of 2020 with IHE grant funds.

As you all know, Covid-19 has turned our world upside down and has changed how we do almost everything, it seems. Professional development for educators is no exception.