Molly BrownA Look at Life & LegendJune 20 – June 25, 2010

National Endowment for the HumanitiesLandmarks in American History & Culture

The Landmark: Molly Brown House

The Landmark: Molly Brown House

Why Molly Brown?

Education Programs

Museum Mission• The mission of Historic Denver’s Molly Brown House Museum

is to accurately portray the story of Margaret Tobin Brown within the context of her lifetime through ongoing research, artifact collection, preservation, and educational programming in order to inspire courage, conviction and proactive change in the spirit of Margaret Brown.

• The education programs of the Molly Brown House Museum support the missions of the Molly Brown House Museum, and Historic Denver Inc. by offering a variety of experiences to educate its diverse audiences to awaken curiosity, to inspire, and to develop appreciation for the life and times of Margaret Brown and how her life fits into Denver’s historic past.

We need not only to save, but to strengthen social studies education. Many argue that young people today are not educated to care about political matters, understand complex issues, make informed decisions, and contribute to a just society. Studies point to a glaring gap in civic knowledge based on test scores correlated with socioeconomic background and race or ethnicity. While ineffective school practices may fail to address the current realities of students, especially students of color in economically disadvantaged circumstances, throwing out the baby with the bath water is certain to exacerbate the biggest evil in our education system—inequality.

-Judith L. Pace is a professor in the University of San Francisco’s school of education

School Programs

Tours– 2009 - 6,929 students– Offer students immersive experience in the 19th

century– Tours focus on the contributions of Margaret

Brown and what life was like when she was alive– Postcard developed to keep students focused and

make comparisons between Margaret’s home and their own

Student Victorian Horrors

School ProgramsOFFSITE

• 2009: 4038 students in 149 programs• 12 travelling programs for a variety of ages and curriculums

– Discuss multiple disciplines and subject areas• Classroom Restoration Trunk

– Bring artifacts and activities into the classroom to deepen student learning

– Allows museum to make connections to state curriculum standards

– Can teach larger students groups– More cost effective for schools, especially as bus prices

rise

Lego City

Program Popularity

Program Popularity

Lego City

Carpetbag

Mining Trunk

Titanic Shuffleboard

Denver Grows

Manners

Victorian Horrors

Speaker's Bureau

Industrial Revolution

Historic Makeover

Adult Programs

• Allows interested adults to learn more about the life of Molly Brown

• Allows the museum unique collaboration opportunities

• Off-site adult programs can reach with large groups, diverse meeting times, and mobility issues

Workshop Goals

Explore the many aspects and attributes of biography as a humanities subject and as a tool for historical analysis

Workshop Goals

Use the biography of Margaret Brown as a case study to reveal biography’s past application to historical understanding and popular culture

Workshop Goals

Examine the relationship between fact and fiction in Western biographies and history

Workshop Goals

Provide opportunities to compare primary and secondary sources to understand the sources and pitfalls of biography

Workshop Goals

Provide you the opportunity to develop materials suited for inclusion in classroom curricula.

Final Project

•Lesson Plan•Revised Curricula•Annotated Resource Set

DUE: JULY 30th

Submit electronically

Workshop Team

Lead Scholar: Anne HydeParticipating Scholars: Laura McCall

Modupe LabodeKristen IversenKelly Long

Master Teachers: Michelle PearsonSally Purath

Workshop Team

Teaching with Primary Sources: Peggy O’Neill-

Jones Diane Watkins

Workshop Team

Staff: Annie LevinskyAlison SalutzAllison AlterEmily Parrington

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