Spring 2005: Sam Farrell and Jarrett Young engaged in a trial service-learning project, creating online research projects about Brunswick and Maine for local eighth grade students to use as part of the Maine History curriculum. They designed three locally-oriented historical problems, located primary documents that can be uploaded onto a website, and constructed a guide that sets up a historical problem for students to research and analyze. The community-service goal of this endeavor is to give eighth graders an opportunity to "do history." Pedagogically, the team process of designing a research project should prepare History 247 students as they embark on their own research projects.
Potential Community Partner: Brunswick Junior High School
Spring 2006: After student teaching at Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham, Maine, Caitlin Moore designed ...