Bedford Consortium > Description for 2010: World Encounters

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Unit/day 1 morning:  Native America

Unit/day 1 afternoon:  The Columbian exchange 

Unit/day 2 morning:  European Colonization of the Americas / British North America and the Atlantic System

Unit/day 2 afternoon:  Accessing Primary Documents (Gilder Lehrman Institute)

Unit/day 3 morning:  The Origins of the American Revolution / The American Revolution in a Global Context

Unit/day 3 afternoon:  Using Technology in the Social Studies Classroom 

Unit/day 4 morning:  Founding the Nation / The Early Republic in a Global Context 

Unit/day 4 afternoon:  Reading the Artifacts of Material Culture

Unit/day 5:  Participant Project Presentations and Knowledge Survey    

Joel Hodson, Ph.D., the program director, oversaw the course, led discussions, and graded assignments.  Summer lectures were provided by distinguished scholars,  Alan Taylor, Professor of the History at the University of California at Davis, and Peter Onuf, Professor of History at the University of Virginia.