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The theme of today is hands-on. Hands-on. 

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Say it with me hands-on. Hands-on. 

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So what you're seeing here is an example of a local resource. 

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And one of the themes that you've been talking to me all year about is about engagement 

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about getting kids interested in history. 

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There's a huge difference between seeing something on a computer screen 

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and actually being able to touch it, look at it, smell it, that musty oldness right that comes with these kinds of museums. 

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So your task today is to be like a regular school teacher that's getting ready to take their kids on a field trip

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and this is your prep work. 

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Will I want them to look at artifacts and think like a historian? 

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Perhaps you're thinking a little bit more on the meta in terms of what story is being told here? 

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As you look around, this building and all the artifacts tell a particular story. 

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Whose story is being told?

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Whose story might not be told? 

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Welcome today

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and this is the home of Polk County Historical Society 

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We cover the entire Polk County

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so any students from the county are very welcome here

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and they're gonna get a little taste of their past. 

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It's very important for local children to access their local museums for that reason. 

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Connecting children with real living history. 

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Museums are great because they allow us to see how things were. 

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When everyone has these preconceived notions from TV

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these give us a more hands-on connection to the past. 

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As a future teacher this field trip really inspires me 

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because I think it gives me a lot of ideas of ways to really immerse children in culture 

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and the history that's around them. 

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The hands-on stuff is really what gets stuff to stick and retain that knowledge. 

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And by being able to come here we're all finding these individual lesson plans

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they're all probably going to be different. 

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But yet when we come to class now we're going to have like 30 different lesson plans 

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that we could probably choose from if we write down those ideas. 

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Being able to go into a museum like this

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to be able to access the history of the area you're teaching in

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is just another facet of what Western makes a point of. 

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It's teaching us how to be better teachers in the most effective way. 

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