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The
Missouri
Historic Preservation Program (SHPO) has a
full-time Preservation Educator on staff. The SHPO
provides materials on historic architecture,
national register properties, historic farms,
community history, objects and artifacts, and
historic sites. The Missouri SHPO offers annual teacher
workshops on doing local history and researching heritage. A
statewide curriculum "Finding
Missouri: Our History and Heritage" serves middle school and
junior high students and teachers.
Missouri
Department of Natural
Resources
Historic Preservation Program
P.O. Box 176
Jefferson City, MO 65102
573-751-7959
FAX 573-526-2852
Some other agencies in Missouri providing heritage
education services and materials include:
The Jackson
County Historical
Society
provides workshops and materials for teachers using
local history and heritage education in the
classroom. Materials cover historic architecture,
national register properties, historic farms,
historic documents, community history, objects and
artifacts, and historic sites. For more
information, contact the Jackson County Historical
Society.
Jackson County Historical Society
219 West Lexington
Independence, MO 64050
816-461-1897
FAX: 816-461-1510
Kit Bardwell, Education Director
The Landmarks
Association
provides in-school presentations to students,
followed by a field trip to the downtown. The
primary focus of this presentation is building
materials, slides of building types, architectural
styles, etc. and "preservation propaganda". This
program, "What are Buildings Made Of?" also
provides hands-on activities for the students.
Landmarks Association of St. Louis, Inc.
917 Locust Street 7th Floor
St. Louis, MO 63101-1413
314-421-6474
The Missouri State Archives is Missouri's primary
repository for public records of permanent
value. Collections include the records of
various state agencies such as the Missouri
Legislature and Supreme Court. The archives
also regularly presents exhibits on Missouri
history and makes materials on document
conservation available to public. Missouri:
Images of the past, a collection of reproduced
documents from the archives holdings and an
accompanying teacher's annual is available for
teachers desiring to use local history and primary
source materials in the classroom
Missouri State Archives
P.O. BOX 778
Jefferson City, Missouri 65102
314-751-3280
Email
Missouri
State Parks
Missouri's
Successlink: a
curriculum database for teachers sponsored by the
Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary
Educaation. Well stocked with information for
social studies and history.
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