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Findings: Additional Outcomes
Upon review of past years and in
discussion with teachers, additional benefits to
the participating communities, teachers and
students emerge.
Local Community
- Development of community pride, both students
and others.
- Engaged local leaders and citizens in
research, in events and in presentations
- Made connections across generations
- Made access to local archives easier and
increased the number of people who know what is
available and use it
Teaching
- Built collegial relationships among teachers,
and across levels, secondary specialists and
elementary generalists, all of whom teach
history
- Engaged teachers and encouraged use of
experiential, investigative approach to lessons
similar to that used in the sciences
- Developed, skills, lessons and materials that
can be used by other teachers and classes.
Students
- Created success experiences for students who
may not be engaged or very successful with
traditional or reading based lessons
- Engaged students in investigation, hypothesis
testing and drawing conclusions
- Connected learning to students own experiences
- Created interest and pride in community
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