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FACT SHEET
STUDENT MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR THE
SOCIAL STUDIES
"Teaching the Future by Touching the Past "
PURPOSE
The Student Museum is an interpretive center and teaching museum for the Social Studies. The
instructional program is student oriented and engages participants in specific hands-on activities
designed for integrated learning in an informal setting.
Constructed in 1902, the Student Museum offers students in Seminole County Public Schools an
unique learning opportunity in a historic setting due to its status as the oldest school in
continuous use in Seminole County and the fourth oldest school in continuous use in Florida.
The instructional program provides an innovative and stimulating opportunity to educate young
people about each of these areas: the early history of Native Americans in Florida, pioneer life,
education at the turn of the century, everyday life at the turn of the century, the use of primary
source materials to make inferences and map and globe skills with an emphasis on Florida
geography.
GOALS
• To foster within students a sense of identity with Florida and Seminole County through
exploration and participatory activities.
• To increase cultural and environmental awareness, knowledge and responsibility, and to
engender feelings of protectiveness for our heritage and environment.
• To interpret through a multidisciplinary approach the interrelationships and interdependence
among people, our heritage, and Florida's fragile environment.
• To give students of differing learning levels and modalities a variety of multi-sensory
educational opportunities in a history setting not feasible for replication.
BACKGROUND
The Student Museum exists to conserve, preserve, study, interpret, assemble and exhibit
materials of educational and cultural value for students. In 1984, the School Board of Seminole
County established the Student Museum and Center for the Social Studies to serve the students
of the district.
Classroom teachers, subject matter experts and museum educators
developed instructional programs in each exhibit area. Professional artists
and craft persons fabricated displays for these exhibit areas: Native
American Room, Pioneer Room, Pictorial Essay Lobby, Turn of the
Century Classroom, Grandma's Attic and Geography Lab.
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