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 source sets developed from the Mount St. Helens oral history project
- Consider new ways to hear and share stories for learning
- Discover tools for accessing other primary sources that directly connect to your site or classroom
Our project engages the digitally available archival holdings of the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress alongside local and regional collections, bringing them into conversation with each other to create a fuller, more complex narrative of American communities, history, and people.
Curriculum PacketTable of Contents
Below is the Table of Contents, sharing an outline of the resources that can be adapted to your classroom, museum, or other learning activities.
Discover Folk Sources, by Lisa Rathje
Comparison Worksheet
Primary Source Analysis Tool
Mount St. Helens and the Art of Destruction and Creation, by Kuen Kuen Spichiger
Destruction and Creation Primary Source Sets with Graphic Organizers for Student Use
Mount St. Helens Primary Source Sets Organized by Individual
Mount St Helens Images, credit lines and descriptions
Exhibit Response Journal
Museum Observation Field Journal
Insider and Outsider Reflection
Additional Reading