OREGON: Perspectives on the Past
HI 401p or HI 501p
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
History of the State of Oregon. Increase your students’ historical literacy of Oregon. A course workbook with selected texts, museum or historical site visits and or video selections will provide a rich learning environment with outcomes and unit ideas you can implement in your classroom to help meet state standards. Select subjects of your choice for an in-depth exploration and create multi-disciplinary units.
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WASHINGTON: Perspectives on the Past
HI 402f or HI 502f
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
Text $12.95
History of the State of Washington. Increase your students’ historical literacy of Washington. A course workbook with selected texts, museum or historical site visits and or video selections will provide a rich learning environment with outcomes and unit ideas you can implement in your classroom to help meet state standards. Select subjects of your choice for an in-depth exploration and create multi-disciplinary units.
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HISTORIC COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY: A Driving Tour
HI 406v or HI 506v
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
From Troutdale to The Dalles, the Columbia River Highway, is one of the greatest engineering feats of our time. Explore at your own pace the bridge construction, historic sites, geological features, museums and more. Enhance your K-12 teaching on conservation, history, engineering, math, and art and examine student learning outcomes.
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CENTRAL OREGON COAST SETTLEMENT: Mountain tops to tide pools
HI 406d or HI 506d
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
Track the shifting fortunes of Oregon’s Central Coast lumber and fishing towns. You will drive the paved coast range roads between Dallas and Lincoln City and read and respond to articles in the workbook. Visit lumber ghost towns and Newport and Lincoln City museums and attractions. Applications for grades K-12.
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MONTANA: Perspectives on the Past
HI 404c or HI 504c
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
Text $9.95
History of the State of Montana. Increase your students’ historical literacy of Montana. A course workbook with selected texts, museum or historical site visits and or video selections will provide a rich learning environment with outcomes and unit ideas you can implement in your classroom to help meet state standards. Select subjects of your choice for an in-depth exploration and create multi-disciplinary units.
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IDAHO: Perspectives on the Past
HI 406a or HI 506a
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
Text $9.95
History of the State of Idaho. Increase your students’ historical literacy of Idaho. A course workbook with selected texts, museum or historical site visits and or video selections will provide a rich learning environment with outcomes and unit ideas you can implement in your classroom to help meet state standards. Select subjects of your choice for an in-depth exploration and create multi-disciplinary units.
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MT. HOOD LOOP HIGHWAY: A Story in Stone
SS 409z or SS 509z
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
Enhance your K-12 classroom teaching on history, conservation, and geology while exploring the Mt. Hood Loop Hwy. You will travel the earliest trails of the 1840’s to the modern highways learning about bridge and road construction, geological features and much more.
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SAM HILL COUNTRY: History of a Dreamer
SS 411e or SS 511e
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
Your self-guided driving tour along the Columbia River includes the story of dreamer and businessman, Sam Hill, and his castle-like mansion, Maryhill. Learn about the Quaker community he envisioned. See a replica of Stonehenge and local communities, including a visit to Presby Mansion Museum.
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SENSE OF PLACE: Local History of Your Community
HI 405c or HI 505c
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
A sense of place is a vital part of each child’s experience as they grow up and determine their own place in the world. Through research of the history and resources in your local community, you will develop lessons that expose your students to their common past. Learning local family, neighborhood, school building and business area history can help young people identify with where they live and develop a respect for the diversity of communities past and present. Appropriate for teachers K-12.
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VOICES FROM THE OREGON TRAIL: The Western Migration for Pioneer Journals
HI 403d or HI 503d
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
Text $14.95
Explore the wealth of history to be found in the diaries and journals that emigrants wrote while traveling west in the mid- 1800’s. Develop useful classroom applications to integrate history and writing assignments that make history a springboard into journal writing assignments concerning current events and relevant personal experiences. Use pioneer diaries for editing and word choice activities. Appropriate for anyone who works with students that must improve writing skills or to increase historical literacy.
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TRANSITIONS: Eugene Region's Growth & Development
SS 410r or SS 510r
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
First inhabited by the Kalapuya Indians centuries ago, Eugene has made an amazing transformation. In addition to its scenic environment, an abundance of parks, pedestrian walks, biking paths, and sporting events have emerged along with a myriad of cultural and arts events in this progressive community. Museum tours and a house tour will complete your Social Studies exploration adaptable to Social Studies Content Standards.
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PASSAGES: Central Oregon through the Cascades
SS 410q or SS 510q
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
Willamette Pass, McKenzie Pass and the Santiam Pass are passages through the Central Oregon Cascades. Providing geology and history lessons you will explore fish hatcheries, geological marvels, waterfalls, innovative road building, and Lava Lands Visitor Center. This course helps you meet K-12 Social Studies content standards.
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LINKING THE CONTENT AREAS: A Thematic Approach
ED 433u or ED 533u
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
Multi-disciplinary teaching is more time-efficient and provides an integrated, whole process of learning for K-12 students. Create usable units linking language arts, social studies, math, science, health, music, art and thinking skills. The workbook is full of research, sample units, guides, and a comprehensive list of available literature, videos and web sites.
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LEWIS & CLARK: Journey into the Clssroom
HI 404i or HI 504i
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
Text $19.95
Explore Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery’s trip west through their own journals, literature and video. K-12 teachers and specialists will increase understanding of the events surrounding this epic journey. Investigate local resources and student-friendly literature and develop lesson plans utilizing the information.
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CONTRASTS: The Central Oregon Region
SS 410p or SS 510p
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
Central Oregon is an alluring area of contrasts. From Sisters to Prineville and on to Bend, it is rich in natural and social history for teachers K-12 to explore. You will witness the history, arts, culture and progressive nature of the region by exploring museums, parks, art centers and more.
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SEATTLE: The Multi-dimensional City
SS 411s or SS 511s
5 FIVE credits $450
Workbook $20
Explore all that Seattle has to offer in arts, industry, maritime and cultural history, plus science and nature settings. Options include visiting the hands-on marine exhibits at the Pacific Science Center, find the first Starbucks, learn about the history of popular music at the Experience Music Project, and much more. Develop unique lessons and field trips for your K-12 students. (Note this is a 5 credit course)
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The Six Traits of Writing
ED 420c or ED 520c
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
The Six Trait writing process is a widely recognized guide and assessment to improve student writing. Enhance your writing instruction by understanding and practicing the six areas of good writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency and conventions. Learn to evaluate student writing by using the Six Traits as an assessment linked to instruction. (Geared for elementary, but will benefit all K-12 teachers who work with writers.)
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PHONICS: A Primary Approach
ED 416a or ED 516a
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
When taught as separate subjects, phonics, spelling, reading and writing often seem disjointed and meaningless. Using the methods in this course, you will be able to integrate your district’s adopted language arts texts and curriculum goals into one direct instruction period. Elementary teachers will learn the research and rationale for the phonetic approach, identify the 104 phonograms that comprise the English Language and more. Included in workbook fee is a CD of the sounds and phonics flash cards.
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GRANDE TOUR: Social History of the Grande Ronde Valley
SS 411d or SS 511d
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
Take a self-guided, 80 mile driving tour through the farms, mountains and history that defines the Grande Ronde Valley of Eastern Oregon near La Grande. Discover a rendezvous site for fur trappers and Indians, the resting place for Oregon Trail emigrants, the ‘Mayo Clinic of the West’, a cowboy museum, and much more. Applicable to K-12 Social Studies Content Standards.
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VOLCANIC LEGACY; Crater Lake & the Klamath Basin Wetlands
SS 414g or SC 514g
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
From world-famous Crater Lake National Park to one of America’s richest bird refuges, the Volcanic Legacy driving Tour owes its dramatic scenery and abundant wildlife to its volcanic past. Many classroom applications for K-12 teachers in science and social studies.
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GHOSTS OF TIMES PAST: North Central Oregon Ghost Towns
HI 406e or HI 506e
3 credits $310
Workbook $20
Text $15.95
Practice active history study as you explore six ghost towns that thrived in the early 1900’s near The Dalles, OR. Learn the history of the railroads of the Inland Empire with trips to Shaniko, Antelope, Boyd, Friend, Kent and more. K-12 teachers will observe, document, and preserve history to use with students.
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