The materials displayed measure individual and group successes and serve as an aid to self examination. By studying the processes as well as the products of work, a sense is developed that history flows. Traditionally, classroom walls have been the property of the teacher. By having students collaborate with them to organize the classroom walls and ceiling, classroom history and progress become tools for learning. This activity has students studying how history unfurls over time by tracing a significant classroom event back to the completion, planning, and ideas that allowed for it to occur.
Students identify how everyone has their own unique understanding of historical events and patterns.
They collect and agree upon significant artifacts from class activities. The History Wall is maintained and evaluated regularly. Based on Chapter 7 of Transformations, Process and Theory by Doreen Nelson.