2025 Teacher Grant Applications Here
Applications accepted starting Nov. 1, 2024.
Deadline: March 10, 2025.

2025- Teacher Grant application select here – Deadline March 10, 2025

The 2025 application window is open Nov. 1, 2024, until the deadline of March 1o, 2024.
Award notification will be given by March 31, 2025

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, classroom materials, such as reference materials and workshops and research videos.
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  • Examples of funding:
    • Funding for school view trips to Washington State history museums such as downtown Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) or the Nordic Museum in Seattle.
    • Subscriptions for editing video platforms.
    • American history or social studies curriculum development and implementation with textbooks, website design, costumes from historical periods 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, National Social Studies Conference and funding for American Revolution history courses at Washington state colleges and civic classes relating to history/social studies.
    • Funding for Heritage Institute classes on American and Washington State history and also funding for Landmarks of American History workshops. 
    • 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