Franklin Remixed

(prepared by Dana Devon, Project Director)

 

We created this project to deepen students’ understanding of Benjamin Franklin and his shaping of the American republic and character through a series of interdisciplinary activities intended to engage all types of learners. Four Philadelphia institutions-The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary, the Rosenbach Museum and Library, the University of the Arts, and Night Kitchen Interactive-joined together to design an inventive educational program using two Franklin-based exhibitions-the Tercentenary’s Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World and the Rosenbach’s Poor Richards: Anatomy of an Almanac.

  

Students visited both exhibitions and then took part in a three-week mini-course comprised of a mix of teacher-facilitated discussions, small group activities, and hands-on interactive design work. You are looking at the project’s final achievement: an online exhibition designed and developed for middle school students by fifteen middle school students from The Philadelphia School, in Philadelphia, PA.

 

Learn more about this project:

I. Program Objectives

II. Learning Objectives

III. Structuring the Project

IV. Curriculum

V. Post-Production 

VI. Evaluation

VII. Interactive Design Process

VIII. Lessons Learned