2023 Teacher Applications Here
Applications accepted starting Nov. 1, 2022.
Deadline: March 6, 2023.

The 2023 application window is now open until the deadline of March 6, 2023.
Award notification will be given by March 31, 2023

2023 – Teacher Grant application select here – Deadline March 6, 2023

Any teacher who teaches or will teach American history/social studies to Washington state students in grades 4 through high school is eligible to apply for one or more grants. The maximum amount an applicant can receive by each category is $1,500.00. Educators may be awarded a grant a maximum of three times from the NSCDA-WA in their teaching career.

Categories for Grants include:

  • Continuing education relating to American history
  • Curriculum development
  • Travel & tuition to attend educational seminars relating to American history
  • Teacher enrichment project/program
  • Classroom/Curriculum Supplies

Examples of funding:

    • Subscriptions for editing video platforms
    • American history or social studies curriculum development and implementation with textbooks, website design, costumes or media.
    • Purchase of technological equipment (Camcorders, video digital recorders, web cams, chrome pads, monitors, surface tablet, Zoom cameras & lighting enhancement)
    • League of Women Voters Civics textbooks for classroom. “The State We’re In: Washington” (Grades 3-5 and also high school edition)
    • Oral history project funding
    • Teacher Enrichment Projects/programs relating to history/social studies and curriculum development
    • Virtual professional development workshops and virtual teacher conferences, seminars, institutes such as the Williamsburg Institute, the Freedoms Foundation seminars, the Gilder Lehrman Conference and civic classes relating to history/social studies
    • Virtual Advanced Placement courses including Advanced Teacher Certification
    • Supplies and materials relating to history/social studies
    • ELMO presenter for the deaf
General Lessons
Lesson 1: Social Studies Standards
Lesson 2: WA State History through the Arts
Lesson 3: Socratic Seminar
Lesson 3: Socratic Seminar – Naturalization
Lesson 4: Explorers

Civil War Lessons
Lesson 1: Freedom’s Foundation Civil War South Workshop, Reconstruction
Lesson 1: Freedom’s Foundation Civil War South Workshop, Video
Lesson 2: Civil War
Lesson 3: How Clothes Speak
Lesson 3: How Clothes Speak (PDF)

Colonial Times Lessons
Lesson 1: Creating America – A teacher’s guide to early U.S.History
Lesson 2: Student journey through Colonial times with colonial words
Lesson 3: Student journey through Colonial times, colonial Dilemma
Lesson 4: Use of Thomas Jefferson as a lens for viewing the New Nation
Lesson 5: Penn’s Letter – Evaluate the reasons for settling Pennsylvania
Lesson 6: Who was the greatest American Revolutionary?
Lesson 7: Students compare & contrast the founding of the first four British North American colonies
Lesson 8: Students determine core of “American Rights”
Lesson 9: Jamestown Relay
Lesson 10: Seals of Colonial Times

Race Lessons
Lesson 1: Slave Census Analysis
Lesson 2: Analysis of Julie Ward Howe Song
Lesson 3: American Presidents and Race
Lesson 3: Race and Place
Lesson 4: Native American Issues
Lesson 5: Fugitive Slave Act
Lesson 6: Native American Lives

Forms for Teaching Scholarships
Teacher Scholarship Application
Scholarship Project report