Folk Sources and New Narratives in Oklahoma

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

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

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...

Collecting Local Stories

Iowa celebrated its 150th anniversary of statehood in 1996. As part of that celebration, some 150 Iowa musicians, craftspeople, storytellers, radio announcers, farmers, cooks, doctors, basketball players, teachers, scholars, and state officials participated in the...
Culture, Community, and the Classroom: Beekeeping

Culture, Community, and the Classroom: Beekeeping

TITLE: Bee Yourself (Beneficial Bees) AUTHORS AND TEACHERS: Sarah Edwards and Nina Muto Sarah Edwards is an elementary art teacher at Windsor C.R. Weeks Elementary School in Windsor, NY. Nina Muto is a guidance counselor at Windsor C.R. Weeks Elementary School in...