Columbus Field Experience

The Voices of American TAH grant held their 2010-2011 field experience on December 1 in Columbus. It was a great day learning about Ohio government and seeing some of the important buildings essential to making laws and presiding over them. Below are just a few photos from our trip to the Ohio Statehouse and Ohio Judicial Center.

The Statehouse was decorated for Christmas!

Everyone listens intently to our tour guide as he discusses the history of the Statehouse.

Sitting in the "ladies' balcony" of the House of Representative in the Statehouse.

The George Washington Williams Memorial in the Statehouse. He was the first African-American elected to the Ohio House. We heard from Mr. Williams (or Anthony Gibbs) later in the day!

Learning about the Ohio Judicial system in the Visitor Education Center at the Supreme Court of Ohio/Ohio Judicial Center.

Bad hair day? No, just learning about different important judicial cases and their impact on our lives today.

Thanksgiving Resource

Do you want to teach about Thanksgiving, but aren't sure where to start? Here's a great clip fromt he PBS documentary "We Shall Remain" that has lots of good information, plus some re-enactments of the first Thanksgiving.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/blog/2010/11/23/times-tomes-thanksgiving/

Primary Source Preview

In this piece, Mike Wilkins uses vaniety license plates from all fifty states to spell out the Preamble of the Constitution. The piece was created in 1987 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Constitution.

This primary source, along with many others, will be included on your Primary Source CD for our first seminar - November 3, 2010.