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 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 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

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 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?

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

11. Other areas the trunk could address

12. Do teachers want to use it?

13. Student engagement

14. Possible trunk composition

15. 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

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