From the Fragments: Places and People in Colonized New England

FAIN: BH-288081-22

University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH 03824-2620)
Meghan Howey (Project Director: February 2022 to present)
Stephen Michael Trzaskoma (Co Project Director: August 2022 to present)

Two one-week workshops for 72 K-12 educators on archaeological approaches to studying Indigenous and African American history in the New England region.

During the week, educators will have place-based encounters with global colonialism in sites along the Great Bay Estuary, considering the experiences of a key populations, placing the experiences of Native Americans and African Americans alongside those of what would become the white majority, with a final day for curriculum building. The basis for this program is the Great Bay Archaeological Survey, a community-engaged, interdisciplinary research program, whose interactive website and StoryMap offers an accessible and updatable launching point for direct learning. Our goal is to have educators experience the physical locations that serve as the source for this resource. This sequence of experiential investigations is organized to model the types of experiences teachers may then design for their students during a final day of curriculum development, as they consider how to deepen their students’ understandings of these people and environments through both direct and digital learning.