The films feature teacher and student voices encouraging these audiences to see themselves reflected in and as architects of National Park Service education. Park rangers partnered with teachers, scholars, and museum education experts to produce two short films: Exploring Hard History and Understanding and Teaching Hard History. These include the Slavery & Freedom in Salem education programs, professional development programs, pre-visit classroom programs and lessons, and other learning materials. The Hard History Project at Salem Maritime National Historic Site seeks to bring stories of slavery to light by empowering educators to teach this history with local examples, place-based experiences, and primary sources. This education program practices a shared-authority approach to co-create education programs and materials with teachers rather than for teachers.
Members of the Hard History Project team at Salem Maritime National Historic Site. Partners: Isabella Silva, American University. The in-park visit applied these lessons through an experiment and field exercise that helps students discover how trees help to fight climate change and provide a healthier urban environment. The pre-visit ranger program helps students learn about conservation, preservation, climate change, pollinators, and White House history. The education program includes pre-visit and in-park programming. The Climate Change and Pollinators program includes complementary content of two videos and a site lesson that were later produced by college interns from American University and Urban Ecology Research Alliance, University of Maryland. The teachers that attended the workshop later participated in the program with their students. National Park Service staff held two teacher workshops to receive feedback on and inform adjustments to the lessons. The program includes two science-based curriculum lessons created by a teacher through the Teacher Ranger Teacher program. The Climate Change and Pollinators education program at the White House and President’s Park provides curriculum-based education programming for local students in 4th through 6th grade. Park Ranger Kathy Langley with John Eston Elementary School.
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