This summer teachers from around Louisiana attended Heritage Education – Louisiana workshops held in Natchitoches, Hammond, and Crowley. The workshops aided teachers in creating lessons and activities that meet curriculum standards and foundation skills, while exciting and fostering a student’s community interest. Teachers develop lesson plans that use local historic structures, cultural landscapes and archeological sites as their basis.
This year’s workshop focus was “A Walk Downtown,” and the workshops were conducted with support form Louisiana’s Main Street Program. Staff from Northwestern State University of Louisiana’s College of Education developed and conducted the workshops and activities, which included a walking tour of each Historic District.

Heritage Education -- Louisiana is a National Park Service’s National Center for Preservation Technology and Training educational program.

For information, contact Kim Bowen, Assistant Program Manager, at 318-356-7444 or by e-mail at kim_bowen@contractor.nps.gov.