The Middlesex County Museum and Historical Society and Middlesex Elementary School are joining together to develop educational materials for students to learn more about local history. The 91 students enrolled in the fifth grade this year will be participants in the newly developed curriculum, following on the heels of the Virginia history they studied in the fourth grade.
Using the museum’s extensive collection as a focal point for the project, official first-person documents will be added from within the county’s archives, as well as other universities, museums and archive collections as supporting materials. An example could be census records dissected to look at math applications of population density with percentages of residents broken down by various demographics.
The museum’s new exhibit “Middlesex Early Inhabitants” will be the focus of the first segment of the programming. Using segments of John Smith’s maps and journals, native life in our area will be defined and explored…
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