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The lesson plans for the Girard College and Columbia Avenue modules and the tips and tricks were created by interns Nick Nguyen, Lou Parisi, and Matthew Schade as a part of  their work in the “Cultural Community Fieldwork Initiative” in the Fall 2011 semester. 

As part of its leadership in the National History Day Philly collaborative, the National Archives at Philadelphia partners with Dr. Christine Woyshner and the undergraduate Secondary Social Studies Teacher Certification program in the Education Department at Temple University.  This project requires Temple secondary education students to undertake fieldwork beyond the traditional classroom, in a library, museum, archives or other history-related institution in the region. Students received course credit for their cultural fieldwork.  The goals of the collaborative project were to place Temple students with cultural institutions in order to work with the latter‘s collections to make them more easily accessible to National History Day Philly students and teachers. A second goal is to teach the pre-service teachers about National History Day, a national project-based education program dedicated and proven to help students increase their historical research and critical thinking skills.