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Maryland Educator to Receive National Council for the Social Studies Outstanding Service Award
SILVER SPRING, Md., Nov. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Sari J. Bennett Ph.D., a professor of geography and director of the Geographic Education Department at the University Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), will receive the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Outstanding Service Award in recognition of her exceptional service to the social studies profession at the 86th Annual NCSS conference at the Renaissance Washington Hotel in Washington, D.C., Dec. 1-3. The award will be presented at the NCSS Awards Reception sponsored by USA Today on Saturday, Dec. 2, at 6:30 p.m. Read More...
Captain John Smith - Four Hundred Year Project
On June 2, 1608, Captain John Smith and fourteen English colonists set out from Jamestown in a 30-foot open boat or "shallop" to explore and map the Chesapeake Bay. Traveling 
over 1,700 miles in just over three months, Smith and his men witnessed the Chesapeake at its productive peak, with its incredible ecosystem intact and a multitude of American Indian cultures thriving along its shores. The observations and sketches made by Smith during his travels would form the basis for his remarkable 1612 map of the Bay, which served as the definitive rendering of the region for nearly a century. For additonal information and educational resources please go to the John Smith Website.