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January 31st, 2008, 4:40 pm
From the Holland Sentinal
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Student history projects displayed at The Holland Museum
BY STEPHEN KLOOSTERMAN
Children's history projects don't often get turned into museum exhibits, but a group of student projects from Holland Public Schools will be displayed at The Holland Museum's education room from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. today.
The projects, which examine how conflict and compromise were involved in various historical events, were put together by students in grades six through eight as part of the annual National History Day competition. The projects on display at The Holland Museum, 31 W. 10th St., were judged by the museum to be the best of the student projects and will progress to a regional competition at Grand Valley State University March 15.
"It is really an impressive amount of work that goes into some of these projects," said Chris Kleinjans, education director for the museum. "The research in them, from a historical point of view, is really well done."
Students could work in groups or individually on the projects, and the completed project could take the form of a Web site, research paper, performance, documentary or exhibit, but each needed to document the research done.
"As a historian, you can really tell from a bibliography where they went, and how much was done," Kleinjans said.
Holland Public Schools has had a history project advance to the national level of the competition 10 out of the last 11 years, according to West Middle School teacher Mark Knopf.
"That's a tribute to the kids' very hard work," Knopf said.
Some of the topics chosen by students range from the Rwandan genocide, President Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb against the Japanese and the Salem witch trials, Knopf said. Students pick their own topics but Knopf and fellow teachers Gary Vosburg and Bill Bryson approve them, he said. "If they can give us a connection between their passionate choice and the nationals subject, we'll approve it," Knopf said.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Student history projects displayed at The Holland Museum
BY STEPHEN KLOOSTERMAN
Children's history projects don't often get turned into museum exhibits, but a group of student projects from Holland Public Schools will be displayed at The Holland Museum's education room from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. today.
The projects, which examine how conflict and compromise were involved in various historical events, were put together by students in grades six through eight as part of the annual National History Day competition. The projects on display at The Holland Museum, 31 W. 10th St., were judged by the museum to be the best of the student projects and will progress to a regional competition at Grand Valley State University March 15.
"It is really an impressive amount of work that goes into some of these projects," said Chris Kleinjans, education director for the museum. "The research in them, from a historical point of view, is really well done."
Students could work in groups or individually on the projects, and the completed project could take the form of a Web site, research paper, performance, documentary or exhibit, but each needed to document the research done.
"As a historian, you can really tell from a bibliography where they went, and how much was done," Kleinjans said.
Holland Public Schools has had a history project advance to the national level of the competition 10 out of the last 11 years, according to West Middle School teacher Mark Knopf.
"That's a tribute to the kids' very hard work," Knopf said.
Some of the topics chosen by students range from the Rwandan genocide, President Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb against the Japanese and the Salem witch trials, Knopf said. Students pick their own topics but Knopf and fellow teachers Gary Vosburg and Bill Bryson approve them, he said. "If they can give us a connection between their passionate choice and the nationals subject, we'll approve it," Knopf said.