2025 North Carolina Council for the Social Studies Conference

Teachers, want to inspire and get your students engaged about Colonial American history? Then you need to be at this dynamic experience where we will explore and dive into the history of the winter encampment at Valley Forge by learning classroom strategies focused around George Washington, Thomas Paine, General Baron Von Steuben, and more. We will discuss classroom structure, engagement activities, and conferencing with students to develop success in your U.S. history lessons by using an easy to adapt lesson plan template, F.O.R.G.E.S. Whether you teach elementary, middle, or high school, you will find something useful in this session that you can take back to your classrooms to get your students hyped!