A pilot program from the Grand Rapids Public Museum entitled,“The Grand History Project” just received $49,509 from the DTE Energy Foundation. The program allows teachers and students to use the exhibits and collections of the Museum as their classroom for a week of lively, in-depth study of Michigan history, culture and natural science.
Three West Michigan schools -- Sibley Elementary, Grand Rapids Child Discovery Center and Grant Elementary -- are participating in the first round. Its goal is to incorporate teaching strategies that go beyond core academic subject area competency to teaching kids how to become problem solvers, effective communicators, collaborators and people who can innovate and improve.
“The Grand Rapids Public Museum is honored to be a major grant recipient,” says Museum President and CEO Dale Robertson. “We are caretakers for the second largest humanities collection in the State of Michigan, with over a quarter of a million historical artifacts and specimens in the Museum’s permanent collection.”
He continues, “This award embraces our mission of providing meaningful educational opportunities to the region, and will further the museum’s collaborative efforts with area educators to reach out to even more children.”
This gift is in addition to $14,991 from the Michigan Humanities Council this past November. The program begins March 1, 2012, will be housed in the Museum’s downtown Van Andel Museum Center. It will be completed June 30, 2013.
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Source: Dale Robertson, Public Museum of Grand Rapids; Kristy Harrington, Public Museum of Grand Rapids
Writer: Jennifer Wilson, Do Good Editor
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