Historic Preservation and Elementary Student Extracurricular Community Service

Elementary students survey buildings in an extracurricular community service project to learn social studies and historic preservation. From these experiences students formed values and dispositions by engaging in a constructivist process of creating knowledge by examining their community. They gath...

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Published inSocial studies (Philadelphia, Pa : 1934) Vol. 107; no. 6; pp. 181 - 185
Main Author Morris, Ronald V.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 01.11.2016
Subjects
built environment
community service
Community Services
Constructivism (Learning)
Elementary School Students
extracurricular
Extracurricular Activities
Grade 3
Grade 4
Historic preservation
Historic Sites
Place Based Education
Preservation
Social Studies
Student Experience
Student Projects
Indiana
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Summary:Elementary students survey buildings in an extracurricular community service project to learn social studies and historic preservation. From these experiences students formed values and dispositions by engaging in a constructivist process of creating knowledge by examining their community. They gathered data, transformed it into information, and shared it with the larger community. Because students learned what community means in reality, not just reading about it, they had a different understanding of how they related to the place they called home. Examining these types of questions helped elementary students have significant experiences that helped them to connect community members with the importance of place. The built environment is the context for historic structures. Student engagement with the social studies curriculum allowed them to create investigations with architecture to broaden their understanding of their world.
ISSN:0037-7996
2152-405X
DOI:10.1080/00377996.2016.1190916