They use and develop higher level thinking skills, cooperative learning skills, research, language, and communication skills. Student projects can relate to the national theme on the local, state, national, or world history levels, using their interests and abilities. The ACHS librarian can assist students with research in the Archive and Manuscript collection at Colonial Hall Museum. The knowledgeable staff can help students relate their chosen topic to local history as well as suggest other places to do further research. They can tell stories, paint pictures, bring back memories of good times and bad, and remind you of friends or family long gone.
Quilts reflect our lives and have for centuries.
This traveling program brings slides of these special quilts to your group along with their stories. It includes some hands-on items of quilting, too. It dates to the years before Minnesota statehood and was made a young couple. As their courtship grew, so did the quilt pieces they picked out. He helped choose the fabrics while she sewed them together.