Shaking Up the History of Canarsie with the Young Curators of P.S. 276!
Gabriella Kula served as an Educator for the Young Curators program at P.S. 276 in the Spring of 2013.
As an educator for the Young Curators program, my goal was for the students of P.S. 276 to gain new insights into their local heritage and Canarsie’s past. We began our time together by coming up with a list of questions, and we looked at artifacts, images, and primary sources to discover historical and cultural content that has left the students more connected and committed to their neighborhood than ever before.
The Young Curators of P.S. 133 Uncover the History of Revolutionary Brooklyn
Kayla Goodson served as an Educator for the Young Curators program at P.S. 133 in the Spring of 2013. She is a four-year veteran of the Brooklyn Historical Society's team of museum educators. This past spring, I had the pleasure to work with an incredible class of 4th and 5th graders from P.S. 133 for the “Young Curators” program in order to design a professional history exhibit in their school. Each week, we worked together as historians to piece together the events and experiences of the Revolutionary War in Brooklyn. While much of the class was acquainted with the American Revolution,…
The Young Curators at PS 32 Take a Walk Around the Block
Erin Boyle served as an Educator for the Young Curators program at P.S. 32 in the Spring of 2013. On a very cold afternoon all the way back in February, I led a joyful crew of 4th and 5th graders from PS 32 in Gowanus on a walk around the block. When we set off for the walk, The Young Curators had spent two class sessions scouring photocopies of an historic map from the BHS collection and had planned out a route—a simple square path that would take them from their school on Hoyt Street, across the Union Street Bridge and back across the Carroll Street Bridge to complete the square. Together…