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Note About This Unit: Our other units are particularly geared toward middle and high school courses. This unit reminds us that younger grade levels can also discover, interpret, and represent new learning through primary sources. Starting with themselves, students...

Thinking Geographically with Museum Collections

Thinking Geographically with Museum Collections is a lesson activity by Michelle Kelly that encourages students to think about migration and its effects on individuals, communities, and places while also reflecting on their family stories of migration. Using primary...

Gateways to Folklife and Oral History Sources

Vermont Folklife, much like museums, libraries, and historical societies, often serves as a bridge between schools and other learning spaces that want to bring community members and their life experiences into their classrooms. We have learned over time that these...

Lâche Pas

South Louisiana is not an easy place to live. Hurricanes, heat and humidity, coastal erosion, bad roads, economic hardship, and poor education standings are just a few threats to our daily quality of life. Yet, cultural lifeways and traditions are fiercely vibrant and...

Connecting Themes and Stories

Introduction The West Virginia Folklife Collection housed at West Virginia University Libraries holds over 2,500 items of documented fieldwork produced by the West Virginia Folklife Program, a project of the West Virginia Humanities Council. Digital and publicly...