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Traveling Trunk: “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”-Confucius

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

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  1. Traveling Trunk:“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”-Confucius Erica Van Keuren

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Research Methods • Survey Monkey • Atlanta History Center

  6. Overall, did you like the trunk?

  7. Teachers liked…

  8. How well were students engaged?

  9. Should the trunk teach one strand of a standard?

  10. Other areas the trunk could address

  11. Do teachers want to use it?

  12. Student engagement

  13. Possible trunk composition

  14. 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

  15. Special thanks to: • Dr. Stephanie McClure • Dr. Doug Oetter • Ms. Cara Meade • Mrs. Beth Woodward • Atlanta History Center, teachers • Special Education Cohort ‘07-’09

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