Present at the OCSS Conference! 

Proposals are due by November 1, 2008.  Click here for more information and to download a proposal form.

OCSS Fall Newsletter is now online! 

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Click here to download the list sites featured to use in your class and share with colleagues.

Interested in running for an election OCSS Board position?  Check out what positions are open for the 2009 election.

OCSS is currently searching for a Historian to sit as a member of the board.  Interested?  Contact Theresa Mengerink, OCSS President.

Looking for quality contact hours to renew your license?  Interested in free texts for students to help bring Citizenship to life? 
Check out the Around the State page for the opportunities!

Highlighted Website:

The Opper Project

The Opper Project website (http://hti.osu.edu/opper) provides social studies instructors with the information necessary to introduce students to using editorial cartoons as primary sources. Named after Ohioan Frederick Burr Opper, the first great American-born cartoonist, the Opper Project is an online collection of historic editorial cartoons. The cartoons, which span over one-hundred years of American history, are organized topically with associated lesson plans. Maintained by the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library and History Department, this website provides middle-school, high-school, and college instructors with lesson plans and classroom materials.

All the cartoons are evocative and teachable, and the topics available include a wide variety of central historical events and periods, including Reconstruction, American Imperialism, Immigration, several reform and rights movements, and American involvement in international conflicts.

Previous Newsletter information:

• Recommended field trip sites around Ohio

• Facing History and Ourselves introduces new, interactive website!

  
Want up-to-date information about the OAT and OGT from the Ohio Department of Education? 
Check out Ohio's new statewide testing website at http://portal.success-ode-state-oh-us.info/

Teacher, Professor, Colleague, and Friend

Remembering Jim Sheehan,
OCSS Executive Director