1. In this project,
YOU will become the historian of your local area by collecting stories that thread the past to the present.
Emphasis that students will complete the project on the website

2. Why is this project important? Who does the project benefit? How?
Link to Video as Stimulus

3. Old folklore tales and stories
Task 1: In groups, brainstorm the history categories associated with your locality.
Historical:
Events/ monuments/ achievements/ inventions
Changes in:
Farming
Transport
Trade/ Business
Environment
Life during the
Famine
World War
The Emergency
Monument
Farming
Divide class into groups of four. Hand out the worksheet template to each group. Each member in the group is assigned one square to fill in. After completing their independent brainstorm. Members of group share their ideas with other members within the group. As a group, they decide on the best four topics. They write the best four topic names into the centre of the worksheet beside the plan icon.
Famine
Folklore
Old folklore tales and stories

4. PDST (2015) Graphic Organisers and other Literacy, Numeracy and AfL Strategies in Teaching and Learning. Available at: (Accessed: 16 December 2016).

5. Available Categories:
Available Categories: Identify which Category your project idea fits into.
Communication and Trade
Folk Medicine
Historical Tradition
Historical Life
Livelihood and Household Support
Mythological Tradition
Nature
Oral Literature
Popular Beliefs and Practice
Religious Tradition
Settlement and Dwellings
Sports and Pastimes
The Community
Time
Collection of Prayers
Funny Story
A Song
An Old Story
Bird Lore
Bread
Buying and Selling
Churning
Clothes Made Locally Em

6. Available Categories:
Available Categories: Choose your five most favourite categories from the list below. Choose five of your least favourite categories from the list below.
Collection of Prayers
Funny Story
A Song
An Old Story
Bird Lore
Bread
Buying and Selling
Churning
Clothes Made Locally Em
Communication and Trade
Folk Medicine
Historical Tradition
Historical Life
Livelihood and Household Support
Mythological Tradition
Nature
Oral Literature
Popular Beliefs and Practice
Religious Tradition
Settlement and Dwellings
Sports and Pastimes
The Community
Time

7. Task 2: Research local history projects already created in Ireland.
Afterwards, complete the question & answer worksheet.
Bibliography:
1 Muintir na Tire (2011) Digital Recollections Available at: (Accessed: 16 December 2016).
2. Project, C.F. (no date) CFP memory map. Available at: (Accessed: 16 December 2016
3. Fortune, M. (no date) My People - My Place. Available at: (Accessed: 16 December 2016).
4. Flaherty, E.O. (2016) Disused school houses - home page. Available at: (Accessed: 16 December 2016).

8. More Projects:
Fortune, M. (no date) School Map Project. Available at: (Accessed: 16 December 2016).
The men on the memorial - Google arts & culture (no date) Available at: (Accessed: 16 December 2016).
‘Beo’ Irish digital heritage archives’s albums (2016) Available at: (Accessed: 16 December 2016).

9. From the QR Code research, which project inspires you and why?
Will you complete the project independently or in groups? Why?
What secondary source material can you base your project around?
How will you ensure the material is accurate and reliable? A.
What primary source material can you base your project around?
If completing an interview, what steps will you need to carry out before the interview?
How can you ensure you are the best historian that you can be?
What steps will you need to take in completing the project?
Advice students to read the PLAN section of the Threads website at to help them answer some of these questions.

10. From the QR Code research, which project inspires you and why?
Will you complete the project independently or in groups? Why?
What secondary source material can you base your project around?
How will you ensure the material is accurate and reliable? A.
Books/ articles/ Irish times digital archive on Scoilnet/ JSTOR journals on Scoilnet/ Dictionary of Irish Biography on Scoilnet/ libraries.
What primary source material can you base your project around?
If completing an interview, what steps will you need to carry out before the interview?
How can you ensure you are the best historian that you can be?
What steps will you need to take in completing the project?
Photos, letters, interviews with family members/ religious leaders/ school records/ local experts/ community group/ emblems in the home or community.
Visit interviewee for undocumented visit on stories. Explain the project and ask for help. Plan out questions to ask from visit. Practice recordings in mock interview. Record and ask interviewee to sign release form.
Record interviewer/interviewee name and date recorded. Record ages at time of videoing.
Plan the project.
Do the project.
Submit the project on Threads website.
Sample Answers

11. Homework: Connect with the Dúchas School Collection of 1930’s?
In 1937, the Folklore Commission encouraged schoolchildren to collect and document folklore and local history. Approximately 749,000 pages were collected by over 50,000 schoolchildren. 1. Using the website, check if your school contributed to the Dúchas collection from 1937.
2. Ask family members will they contribute to your story for your schools Threads collection.