What is Folklife in K-12 Education?

Seymour Schools Folklife Residencies
Work and Life: Voices of Perry County
Educators Web Bibliography
Ideas for Educators compiled by TAI

Perry County Teacher's Oral History Training, Tell City, IN
Cannelton Elementary School, Cannelton, IN
Serving as a resource and catalyst for projects, TAI offered training in cultural documentation as part of Echoes of Cannelton, an oral history project of Cannelton Elementary School and the Indiana Humanities Council funded project Work and Life: Voices of Perry County.

Antoinette Kranning's 5th graders replica of Possum Junction General Store was featured in the Perry County News.

Two innovative and creative teachers completed oral history projects with their classes. Third grade teacher Joan Goble invited TAI to Cannelton Elementary School to train 3rd-6th grade students to perform recorded interviews. Goble's third grade class turned their research into a website – Echoes of Cannelton. Antoinette Kranning's 5th graders at Perry Central focused on the legacy of small, independently-owned general stores. Her students interviewed shopkeepers and created a variety of final products – one group of students recreated a general store out of refrigerator cardboard boxes.

Collaboration with the Indiana University School of Education
TAI and IU Language Arts professors collaborated with Cannelton Elementary School for a daylong Echoes of Cannelton program. Also, older community members were invited to speak about their experiences with students. Their stories were all recorded.

Conservation Educators Conference
TAI and Indiana Arts Commission staff led a workshop for the 1999 Indiana Conservation Educators Conference held at Clifty Falls State Park in Madison, Indiana. Well over 30 K-12 teachers (science and social studies), park and museum educators attended. TAI demonstrated lesson-plans and distributed resources for educators.