Innovate a Project-Based Learning Experience for your students

Project-based Learning engages students in meaningful work that supports their academic growth and skill development.  BCHS is ready to collaborate with educators serving students of all ages.  Connect with Educational Services to discuss options for how the Museum might serve as a partner in your project-based learning unit:
info@bonnercountyhistory.org

More than a field trip

Developing a project-based learning unit can help you meet standards across multiple subject areas.  These projects may involve one or more visits to the Museum, historical sites, and even classroom visits from our Educational Services team.  We are happy to support you in crafting an experience that meets your learning outcomes and is the right size.  These projects can be tailored to homeschooling, distance-learning, and summer camps. 

Some examples of projects:

• Create your own exhibit. Study how a curator creates an exhibit at BCHS Museum and transfer the knowledge to the creation of a new exhibit for the school, classroom, or library.  (This could allow for the creation of exhibits in any content area- not limited to history.)
• A day in the life of __________. Use historical fiction, historical essays, photographs and artifacts to develop sense of life in another time period.  Create a character or persona based on the research.  Celebrate the project in a visit to the museum where you dress as your character, engage in activities related to the time period, and showcase your research.
• Recreating history.  Learn how to search through the museum archive and identity a photograph that you connect with.  Research the location or people in the photograph and attempt to recreate the photograph in current times.  
• Collecting oral history. Learn about primary sources and how oral history helps historians interpret moment in time.  Choose an elder member of the community, craft a protocol, and conduct an oral history interview.  Create a piece or art, writing, or music inspired by the oral history and gift it to the participant.  Donate the oral history to the Museum archives.
• How did we get here? Explore how Bonner County came to be through hands-on play targeting logging, water pathways, agriculture and railroad (preschool-2nd).
• Visual literacy supporting literacy. Use artifacts and photographs to develop comprehension skills that can be transferred to text.  Learn questioning techniques, predication, inference, sequencing, summarizing, and compare and contrast using Bonner County history as your content area.
• Capstone projects for students interested in Museum science, preservation, or research.

These are just examples.  We are happy to work with you to develop something that meets your students' needs.