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Each year, on a sub-tropical island in southern Georgia, over 1,100 students participate in an award-winning Parks-as-Classroom Archaeology Education program. Established in 1994 as a partnership between Fort Frederica National Monument and the Glynn County School System, the program's archaeology curriculum has been formally adopted into the framework of the fourth grade curriculum. Teachers are trained to instruct students in the history of the 18th century fort and town of Frederica and in the methodology of historical archaeology. To prepare both teachers and students, Fort Frederica has developed and facilitated an intense week-long teachers workshop. Fort Frederica is featured in the NPS Teaching with Historic Places program. Also see "Teaching with Historic Places in the Parks," CRM, Volume 23, No. 08, 2000, p. 39.
Program Photos | 2003 photo showing rehabilitated excavation trench
As a special initiative in 1999, Fort Frederica and the NPS Southeast Archeological Center joined forces with the Georgia State Historic Preservation Office to develop an expanded workshop as a career development opportunity for both NPS and Georgia state employees: Instructors; Training Announcement; Agenda.
For further information, contact: Ellen Strojan, Park Ranger, Fort Frederica National Monument, Rt. 9, Box 286-C, St. Simons Island, Georgia, 31522, Tel.: 912/638-3639, E-mail: Ellen Strojan@nps.gov.
