Austin teacher wins $5K prize for history lesson


Posted: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 04:04 PM - 7,678 Readers

By: Austin Business Journal


Lake Travis Middle School teacher Elisa Garrett was the grand prize winner in a national contest in search of the most innovative history lesson.

The History Channel chose Garrett's lesson "Avoiding the Civil War," which asked students to time-travel back to the Civil War era, reading primary sources and designing multimedia projects that showed ways the crisis could have been averted.

Garrett won $5,000 for winning the middle school division in the Innovation in History Education contest, which emphasized use of technology and richness of content. She is the only winner from Texas.





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