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Education concerning the value of our cultural heritage, and ways to preserve it, is an important component of PAL’s mission. Our educational programs have ranged from formal curriculum design and implementation funded by state and local grant programs, to informal classroom slide show presentations. PAL hosts public participation field schools, workshops, and conferences and is committed to disseminating information about cultural resources to as wide an audience as possible. |
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As part of federal and state-funded data recovery programs, PAL has produced educational reports, multimedia productions, and educational displays for distribution to local libraries, historical societies, and school systems. Many of these are available on-line through the view/download links in this website. These products help clients educate the public about their projects and demonstrate that responsible planning for the future includes preservation of the significant cultural resources of our past. School programs are among the most popular forms of public outreach sponsored by PAL. Information about cultural resources supplements units on local history, Native American studies, geography, ecology, social studies, and earth sciences. PAL maintains an in-house library of curriculum tools that includes publications related to New England history, archaeology, and historic preservation, as well as examples of teaching materials from across the country. PAL’s public outreach programs also include visits local preservation groups, avocational archaeological associations, and the general public in communities where we have conducted research. State archaeology weeks in the six New England states are an increasingly successful forum for hands-on programs, lectures, open digs, and site visits affording PAL opportunities to present the past to the public.
PAL reaches out to professional and academic audiences by
presenting research papers at regional and national conferences, and through
publications in regional journals. |