Bring Professional Development to Your School District
Looking for best-practice instructional techniques to bring Iowa history to life in your classroom? The Museum Education team will travel to your district with tools, tips, and resources to deliver half-day or full-day professional development sessions for staff at any grade level. You’ll gain practical ready-to-use strategies for teaching inquiry, historical thinking, and literacy through Iowa history.
Project-Based Learning and National History Day
📆 Friday, October 10
📍 University of Northern Iowa
Explore dynamic ways to integrate project-based learning into your classroom with National History Day (NHD) from experienced teachers.
- Free license renewal credit.
- Limited to just 20 educators.
- Register Here
Iowa Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference
📆 Monday, October 20
📍 FFA Enrichment Center, Ankeny
Find our booth at the Iowa Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference! You can also catch our breakout session–History Happens Here: Using Local History to Teach National Change. The session will explore Iowa’s civil rights movement that took place 100 years before the national movement.
Subscribe to the Monthly Education Newsletter
The educator newsletter is back with a new look, a new monthly schedule, and a new name—The Goldfinch Dispatch. We’re honoring the legacy of our retired young learners magazine, The Goldfinch (1975-2000) with a refreshed resource designed specifically with teachers in mind. Each issue delivers:
- bellringer activities
- Iowa history mysteries
- ready-to-use lessons
- professional development opportunities
- museum updates
Subscribe to receive monthly updates straight to your inbox on the first Wednesday of each month.
Past Professional Development Recordings
Iowa history plays an important role in the state’s Social Studies standards. The following videos can be used by educators to prepare for curriculum or in the classroom with students. Educational Videos Related to Iowa History.