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Presidential library and museum receives grant to produce additional
Lincoln Legacy Learning Kits for grades 5-8
[October 16, 2007]
SPRINGFIELD -- Imagine being a fifth- through
eighth-grade teacher, opening a trunk and having that day's lesson
brought to life for your students by what's inside. That's the
purpose of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum's
Lincoln Legacy Learning Kits, and thanks to a grant from the
Illinois State Library these kits can be produced for use in
Illinois classrooms.
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 The Illinois State Library has awarded a $99,500 Library Services
and Technology Act grant to the presidential library and museum to
place 40 of these learning kits at public libraries and historic
sites throughout Illinois. Educators can check out the kits free of
charge for classroom use. Each kit is inside a specially designed
trunk and contains a curriculum guide, activity booklet, laminated
images, reproduction artifacts, hands-on materials, books, posters
and other items pertaining to the topic. The four different kits are
the Abraham Lincoln Biography Reading Kit, Mary Todd Lincoln Kit,
Civil War Soldiers Kit and Slavery in Illinois Kit."As a former
schoolteacher and administrator, I understand the importance of
using tools such as these education kits to help young people
understand and appreciate historical events," said Illinois
Secretary of State and State Librarian Jesse White. "With the 2009
Lincoln Bicentennial certain to foster renewed interest in Abraham
Lincoln and the Civil War, these wonderful education kits couldn't
be coming at a better time."
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 The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Education
Division has developed five prototypes of each kit and loaned
them to Illinois teachers, who have reported using them with great
success in the classroom. The kits address the need for integrated
curriculum by combining social studies topics with language arts,
reading, writing, fine arts, mathematics, geography and science.
The kits showcase documents and artifacts from the collections of
the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum and those of
Lincoln historic sites across Illinois. Although more than 70,000
students per year visit the ALPLM and Lincoln sites in the
Springfield area, the Lincoln Legacy Learning Kits can reach
thousands more students who may not have the opportunity to visit
these sites on a school-sponsored tour.
For more information about educational programs offered by the
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, visit
www.alplm.org.
[Text
from Abraham Lincoln Presidential
Library and Museum news release received from the
Illinois Office of Communication and Information]
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