Vermont Folklife in the Seasonal Round

Vermont Folklife in the Seasonal Round

by | Sep 30, 2024

Student Research and Discovery: Sense of Place through the Seasonal Round The seasonal round provides a point of inquiry for students to examine in any subject area and can culminate in many projects, from developing weather graphs to interviewing community members....

Folk Sources and New Narratives in Oklahoma

by | Sep 20, 2024

This packet represents one part of a three-year study engaging the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre through primary sources. Included in these lesson plans and units of study are discoveries, tools for teaching, activity prompts, and deep pedagogical engagement from oral...

Art and Narrative

by | Sep 18, 2024

This curriculum guide explores the relationship arts education and teaching with primary sources that come out of ethnographic documentation and often feature folk and traditional arts. Learning Objectives Access new primary source sets developed with Visual Arts and...

Oral History in Interpretation and Museum Education

by | Sep 18, 2024

This Curriculum Packet was designed for a Teaching with Primary Sources workshop titled “Oral History and Interpretation” offered by Local Learning in partnership with Vermont Folklife and Washington State Parks. Learning Objectives Access new primary...

To Dance Irish

by | Jun 11, 2024

This resource was published to 1) Provide more information about Irish Dance, 2) Place this art form within the context of ethnicity, 3) Discover the complexity and cultural meaning behind this art form, and 4) Suggest ways of incorporating Irish dance into social...