The program includes live performance, lectures, and reading materials. Back to the Top Pennsylvania Linda Deafenbaugh of the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area directs four institutes around the state. Allegheny Intermediate Unit 3, Pittsburgh. This participatory field research course for secondary teachers involves fieldwork and field trips. Teachers apply research skills to gathering varied resources in their own communities.
Teachers also develop a unit outline to use community-based field research with students.
Teachers learn about the region's steel industry heritage and develop a research project framework for secondary students. Includes field trips and interviews with steelworkers. Elementary and middle school teachers use the Standards for Folklife Education to study concepts of cultural processes and work with traditional artists and experience how the cultural arts are intertwined with heritage. Teachers plan folklife education activities for their classrooms and examine ways to integrate folklife across curricular areas. Teachers develop an oral history project for students grades 3-12 and cover interviewing mechanics, negotiating problems, point of view, ethical issues, and what to do with the data gathered.