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Traveling Trunk: “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”-Confucius . Erica Van Keuren. What is a traveling trunk?. A teaching method and tool brining parts of a history museum into the classroom. Atlanta History Center’s Outreach Education Program
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Traveling Trunk:“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”-Confucius Erica Van Keuren
What is a traveling trunk? • A teaching method and tool brining parts of a history museum into the classroom. • Atlanta History Center’s Outreach Education Program • “Content, context, comprehension” • Experiential education • Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
How does it work? Atlanta History Center Experiential Education & Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Experiential education: learning and doing with hands. Direct experience and focused reflection. Gardner’s MI: linguistic, logical/mathematical, musical, visual/spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal • Concept: pick a standard to be taught via the trunk • Context: how the standard will be taught • Comprehension: measurement of student’s learning and connection with prior knowledge
Is this significant? • Student’s think history is boring and has no relation to his/her daily life • Student engagement in Georgia History • Can a travel trunk successfully teach Georgia eighth-graders the history content in SS8H7? • SS8H7
Research Methods • Survey Monkey • Atlanta History Center
Proposed Solution • Create an educational travel trunk that includes primary artifacts: • Aspects from Leo Frank and Race Riots • Maps of Atlanta from 1870 to 1919 • Poems and other writings
Special thanks to: • Dr. Stephanie McClure • Dr. Doug Oetter • Ms. Cara Meade • Mrs. Beth Woodward • Atlanta History Center, teachers • Special Education Cohort ‘07-’09