This program is funded by the Nebraska Humanities Council, a statewide, nonprofit organization that promotes citizenship by presenting programs on our history and culture to children and adults.

The council's mission is to instill a sense of civic spirit and our connections to each other. Parternerships with communities, museums, schools and individuals preserve our past and inform our future.

If you like this kind of programming, support the Nebraska Humanities Council with a contribution. Donations are matched by state and federal matching funds. With your help, we can grow and continue to renew and strengthen our communities.

Humanities and Nebraska Arts Council Enrichment Followup Projects

The following links will connect to the enrichment lesson that has been created by the Humanities scholar. To review of edit, click on the link below.
Pippa White - The Story of the Ophan Train	Matthew Jones - Otoe Missouria - Forgotten Nebraskans
Tom King - General US Grant	William Kloefkorn - A Poet's Perception

To add a new enrichment lesson, click on the following link - new lesson.

Project Goal:

"Presenting Humanities Over Distance Education" seeks to bring together the Humanity scholars as they share programs of history, heritage, creative writing, storytelling, and music and song with students and teachers in the Tri-Valley Distance Education Consortium and central Nebraska.

Project Objectives:

• To increase understanding of distance education system and how it will enable speakers and participants to interact as part of a Humanities presentation.
• To develop a web based enrichment plan to support the Humanities scholars' presentations.
• To present a series of Humanities programs to students in grades 4-12.
• To share the outcomes of the "Presenting Humanities Over Distance Education" program with other teachers and scholars.
• To support Tri-Valley Distance Education Consortium (TVDEC) member schools as they plan to include Humanities Scholar programs in their 2003-04 school curricular plans.

Plan of Operation: (Click Here to View PDF File)

Scholars interested in participating in the project:

• Matthew "Sitting Bear" Jones - "The Otoe-Missouria Tribe: The Forgotten Nebraskans"
• William Kloefkorn - "A Poet's Perception"
• Pippa White - "The Story of the Orphan Train"
• Thomas King - "General U.S. Grant"

Project Timeline:

• January 6, 2003 - Training Day in Lincoln
• Presentations to be arranged in February, March, and April.
• May 29- 30 - Propose to present at Nebraska Distance Learning Association Conference

Humanities Presentations: