The Center for Spanish Colonial Archaeology has a series of programs for
elementary schools.  For a donation of $5 a head, we take the entire 4th
grade class of a school out to the San Diego Presidio dig and teach them
how to excavate for a day. We also have a living history program in which
the students can participate in such crafts as cooking in an horno
(beehive oven) or on an estufa (adobe stove),  making corn husk dolls, or
making adobe bricks (this is a favorite activity).

The Center also has been working with an alternative school program, and
has had interns from this program.

We take schoolkids on tours of the dig and have a specially prepared path
for them. A few weeks ago, our director took a group of blind tourists
through the site.

Just a few ideas.


Anita Cohen-Williams
Listowner of HISTARCH, SUB-ARCH, & SPANBORD
Center for Spanish Colonial Archaeology
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