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Los Angeles, California
As communities change over time, residents are often not aware of the historic significance of many of the local buildings and landmarks. One excellent way to engage students in learning more about their neighborhoods is to organize a project in which they explore the history of their local landmarks and share their information with the larger community. The Los Angeles Unified School District has certified a program entitled "Community Heritage Tour" where students research important local landmarks and create pamphlets and other outreach efforts to share their findings with the community. The basis of this project was the History Channel's Save Our History Educator's Manual which provided the framework for this project through the "Neighborhoods in Time" Lesson Plan.
Students at Belmont High School in Los Angeles, working together with the preservation organization Las Angelitas del Pueblo, completed an outstanding project using the "Community Heritage Tour" concept in 2004. After researching the history of Los Angeles's Pico House, the students created a 10-minute video presentation, a brochure, a poster, and a special Web site about this landmark.
This building was once a luxury hotel commissioned by Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California. Today it is a National Historic Landmark. This project is just one example of how history can come to life for students through hands-on historic preservation projects. To learn more about how the Los Angeles Unified School District provides service-learning credit for this and similar projects, view their online Service-Learning Certification Form, which also shows how service-learning efforts are viewed from an academic perspective:
http://notebook.lausd.net/portal/page?_pageid=33,179441&_dad=ptl&_schema=PTL_EP
Students at Belmont High School in Los Angeles, working together with the preservation organization Las Angelitas del Pueblo, completed an outstanding project using the "Community Heritage Tour" concept in 2004. After researching the history of Los Angeles's Pico House, the students created a 10-minute video presentation, a brochure, a poster, and a special Web site about this landmark. This building was once a luxury hotel commissioned by Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California. Today it is a National Historic Landmark. This project is just one example of how history can come to life for students through hands-on historic preservation projects. To learn more about how the Los Angeles Unified School District provides service-learning credit for this and similar projects, view their online Service-Learning Certification Form, which also shows how service-learning efforts are viewed from an academic perspective:
http://notebook.lausd.net/portal/page?_pageid=33,179441&_dad=ptl&_schema=PTL_EP
