Thanks We would like to thank the following people and organizations for their contributions to the National Heritage Museum's curriculum development project: Barbara Baker, Cathy Coté, Mary Fuhrer, Sazi Marden, Alice Promisel, Kate Rhuda, Cynthia Robinson, Vicky Schwartz, the Lexington Public Schools, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Focus Grant.
Lexington in 1775 Instructional materials and contextual information presented in Learning at the National Heritage Museum were drawn from a third grade local history curriculum developed by a team of Lexington elementary school teachers and curriculum specialists. From January to December of 2004, a project team consisting of these teachers, museum staff, and independent scholar Mary Fuhrer participated in an NEH-funded curriculum development project, “Colonial Life and the American Revolution”. The participating classroom educators had all attended a fall, 2003 teacher institute at the Museum which featured recent scholarship on colonial life. Participants presented and discussed ways to integrate new interpretation into curricula using primary material chosen from the region’s rich historical resources. Based on that knowledge and experience, the team created a third grade local history unit, “Lexington in 1775", and supplemental material for Lexington's fifth grade history curriculum. Developers presented the material to Lexington elementary school teachers in two workshops. The curricula continue to be used in Lexington elementary schools and are closely linked to the Museum's exhibition "Sowing the Seeds of Liberty: Lexington and the American Revolution".
