Teaching with Laurel Grove School

Laurel Grove School Association; Ford, Phyllis; Greene, Eleanor

Teaching with Laurel Grove School

dc.contributor.author	Laurel Grove School Association
dc.contributor.author	Ford, Phyllis
dc.contributor.author	Greene, Eleanor
dc.date.accessioned	2020-05-04T20:56:27Z
dc.date.available	2020-05-04T20:56:27Z
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.description	The WARC file must be opened using a program like Webrecorder.io. The ZIP contains a static version of the website.
dc.description.abstract	The Laurel Grove School was a one-room school for African American children in northern Virginia from the 1880s-1932. In the 1990s, the Fried Company restored the building, and it now operates as a museum along the African American heritage trail. Under the direction of the Laurel Grove School Association, and with several grants from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, an interdisciplinary team of community members, curriculum experts, teachers, historians, and museum curators recovered the history of this school from oral histories and local archives and refurbished the classroom. This team also crafted a fourth grade history curriculum to teach about slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and life under Jim Crow--a curriculum that later was adapted to middle and high school history. The Laurel Grove School lessons are available at this website, created with Omega. This project was funded by the We the People initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, and CALIBRE, Inc. Hosted at chnm.gmu.edu/laurelgrove.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1920/11720
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
dc.subject	Digital history
dc.subject	Pedagogy
dc.title	Teaching with Laurel Grove School
dc.type	Learning Object