Get students interested in the future of community through the planning and advocacy for recycling historic buildings. How To Look At Your Town - Much can be learned about historic places without leaving a classroom. Getting out in the field helps learners develop an eye for history and heritage that they can train on the streets and homes they pass each day. Materials will include stragegies and activities for using historic buildings, structures, sites, and objects. Archaeology in the Classroom - Find out about educational programs from the Office of the State Archaeologist and learn how to make the historic and prehistoric archaeological past alive and accessible for students.
Cemeteries are valuable data sources for conducting research or doing a classroom project.
Markers may have information not found anywhere else. Epitaphs, inscriptions, symbolic carvings, and the size and material of the marker may be reveal valuable information. In this session, participants will discuss the possibilities of curriculum integration, identify what they consider to be the most important concepts and events from Iowa history, and assess ideas for shaping a systematic, multidisciplinary approach in their school district. The Goldfinch , and the Iowa Heritage Illustrated in the K-12 classroom. This session will offer teachers ideas for using visual documents such as photographs, drawings, paintings, murals, movies in the classroom.