Webinar Series for Teachers
Live, certified professional development for educators from the state’s experts on social studies. PD credit included!
Cost: $20 per webinar
Alabama teachers: Ask us how you can attend for FREE through a grant from Honda!
Inclusive History
This fall, uncover hidden histories with these timely webinars.
- Bursting Cultural Bubbles
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October 29
5-6:15 pm
Looking for practical strategies for broadening your approach to social studies (and teaching in general)? Start here.
Tara White, PhD, History Instructor, Wallace Community College Selma
Bettina Byrd-Giles, Consultant, The Byrd’s Nest, LLC
- Migration and Immigration in Alabama
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November 5
5-6:15 pm
See how industrialization made and remade cities and reshaped Alabama.
Dr. Nefertari Yancie, Social Studies Instructor, Clay-Chalkville Middle School
- Alabama Suffragists
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November 12
4:30-5:45 pm
Vulcan continues its commemoration of women’s suffrage with this practical webinar. Includes a virtual tour of Right or Privilege? Alabama Women and the Vote.
Valerie Pope Burnes, PhD, Associate Professor of History, University of West Alabama
STEAM Driven
Start 2021 with this pair of STEAM focused webinars.
- Mines, Mills, and Minerals
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January 21
5-6:15 pm
Integrate science and technology with Alabama’s industrial and transportation history using these lesson plans.
Paulette Evans, PhD, Director UABTeach, Program Director Secondary Education, UAB
Kevin Pughsley, Teacher, Berry Middle School
Ricardo Conte, Teacher, Simmons Middle School
- Vulcan as Art and Science
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January 28
5-6:15 pm
Vulcan is an icon of ingenuity and design, a product of both natural resources and human resourcefulness. Here’s how to make the iron man the focus of STEAM lessons.
Taylor Eads, Teacher, I-3 Academy
Standards and Strategies
Get ready for the new C3 framework in social studies this spring!
- Evidence-Based Argumentation
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March 4
5-6:15 pm
Analyze Supreme Court rulings to think like historians and political scientists.
Jada Kohlmeir, PhD, Associate Professor of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Auburn University
- Teaching with Primary Sources
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March 11
5-6:15 pm
Integrate photos, artifacts, and primary documents into an inquiry-based approach. Includes links to primary sources and mini lesson plans.
Nettie Carson-Mullins, Education Specialist, Alabama State Department of Education
- Applying the C-3 Framework
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March 18
5-6:15 pm
Get practical advice on how to teach four C-3 framework-aligned units.
Jeremiah Clabough, PhD, Associate Professor of Education, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Gallery Guide
Click below for a virtual museum tour broken down into short episodes. Check back for more to be added soon!
Episode 1: Intro to Vulcan Park and Museum
Episode 2: The Iron Making Process and Early Birmingham
Episode 3: Birmingham During The Great Depression and WWII
Episode 4: The Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham
Vulcan's Educational Toolkit
- Bolt One: Education Programs Guide
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Through our education programs guide, teachers can learn more about all there is to offer for educational programming at Vulcan Park and Museum. Our programming including but not limited to guided tours, live performances, interactive exhibits is aligned with the Alabama Course of Study.
- Bolt Two: Teacher Guide
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Through exhibit descriptions and pre- and post-visit classroom activities, our Teacher Guide empowers teachers planning a visit to Vulcan Park and Museum. Teachers will love the guide’s easy-to-use format and well-researched overview of our region’s history.
- Bolt Three: Alabama Course of Study Correlations
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Our programming aligned with the Alabama Course of Study is listed here by grade.
Teacher Symposium Resources
- 2019 SYMPOSIUM
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This one-day workshop focused on teaching tools to meet current needs in social studies instruction through civics. Teachers learned to strengthen their students’ civic literacy skills through primary source analysis and cultivating disciplinary thinking skills. Primary source material focuses on the Women’s Suffrage movement and Anti-suffrage movements in Alabama and across the country, plus other battles for voting rights. Women’s Suffrage and universal voting rights is also the topic of an exhibition hosted by Vulcan Park and Museum which opened in January 2020. Featured workshop activities support current College and Career Ready Standards plus the C3 framework by the National Council for Social Studies.
- 2018 SYMPOSIUM
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This one-day workshop focused on teaching tools to meet current needs in social studies instruction through civics. Teachers learned to strengthen their students’ civic literacy skills through primary source analysis and cultivating disciplinary thinking skills. Primary source material focuses on Supreme Court cases that originated in Alabama
which is the topic of a travelling exhibit hosted by Vulcan Park and Museum – “Alabama Justice: the Cases and Faces that Changed a Nation”. Featured workshop activities support current College and Career Ready Standards plus the C3 Framework by the National Council for Social Studies. - 2017 SYMPOSIUM
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Vulcan Park and Museum will host its annual teacher symposium and workshop presented by the Birmingham Bar Foundation on November 8, 2017. The symposium will focus on civic education and contemporary public issues. Area teachers are invited to attend. Dr. Jeremiah Clabough, professor at UAB’s School of Education, will head up the workshop. The 2017 keynote speaker is Guin Robinson, M.Ed. Guin currently serves at the Director of Community Outreach at Jefferson State Community College and formerly served as the Mayor of Pell City from 1999-2004.
- 2016 SYMPOSIUM
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Vulcan Park and Museum hosted its annual teacher symposium and workshop on November 2, 2016. The focus of this year’s symposium was Civic Education. Area teachers heard from former State Representative Paul DeMarco, UAB professor, Dr. Jeremiah Clabough, and Michael R. Cloninger, Middle Years Programme Coordinator for Jefferson County International Baccalaurate School. This year’s event was presented by The Birmingham Bar Foundation.
- 2015 SYMPOSIUM
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Vulcan Park and Museum hosted a CCRS symposium and workshop on October 28, 2015. During this symposium teachers heard from the State of Alabama School Superintendent, Dr. Tommy Bice, as well as UAB professor, Dr. Jeremiah Clabough. To access the symposium handouts, see below.
Lesson Plans and Activities
Entire units and lesson activities covering a wide range of topics, including early Birmingham history, connecting STEM and social studies, and the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham!