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| Museum, school team up for history kits |
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| by James L. White, Times Staff |
| History isn't necessarily thought to be a hands-on subject, but with a little help from the Boone County Heritage Museum, it will be this year. |
| Andi Miller, a volunteer at the Museum and a board member of the Boone County Historical and Railroad Society, Inc., said the Museum and Harrison Schools teamed up this year and secured a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council, in conjunction with the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. |
| The $1,942 educational mini-grant will be used to develop Arkansas and Ozarks history kits for circulation through Harrison and other Boone County schools this year. |
| Miller explained the kits will each have a theme and contain artifacts such as arrowheads for studying Native Americans, Civil War-era bullets and a cooking kettle - even World War II memorabilia. |
| The kits will also contain activities that tie directly to the Arkansas education curriculum frameworks, a list of additional resources, as well as a list of people who might be interested in speaking to the students in classrooms, Miller said. |
| Miller said she became aware of the grant through a newsletter from the Arkansas Humanities Council, which awards grants during the middle of each month except December. The grants are designed to bring humanities scholars to classrooms. |
| Miller said more information will be available when the kits have been created and are ready for circulation. |
| "Everything should be done by September," Miller said. |
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