<p>A member of Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood, Alma Illery was a local civic leader and change maker. In the 1940s when Pittsburgh was a city clouded with coal smoke, Alma Illery provided a space for Pittsburgh’s children to explore the great outdoors and build relationships with other youth throughout the city. Explore this Learning Lab to learn about the work of Alma Illery, the driving force behind Camp Achievement, and the summer camp that hundreds of inner-city children would enjoy during the summer. </p> <p>Escaping the Smokey City: Alma Illery and Camp Achievement Learning Lab provides teachers an opportunity to explore the past with students through primary sources, allowing students to compare historical information to contemporary experiences and events.<br></p>

<p>During the years of the Second World War, soldiers serving across the globe wrote letters to a local Western Pennsylvania amusement park, Kennywood. Read about their personal lives, war experiences, and memories of Kennywood in their own words-- through typed and handwritten letters in the collection. </p> <p></p> <p>This Learning Lab is designed for educators to implement local, primary sources in their classroom teaching.  All Kennywood source material found here are housed in the <a aria-label="Link Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center" title="https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/search?type=dismax&f[0]=mods_relateditem_host_titleinfo_title_ms:kennywood\%20park\%20records,\%201895\-2018,\%20mss\%20141,\%20detre\%20library\%20and\%20archives,\%20senator\%20john\%20heinz\%20history\%20center" href="https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/search?type=dismax&f[0]=mods_relatedItem_host_titleInfo_title_ms:Kennywood\%20Park\%20Records,\%201895\-2018,\%20MSS\%20141,\%20Detre\%20Library\%20and\%20Archives,\%20Senator\%20John\%20Heinz\%20History\%20Center" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" tabindex="-1">Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center</a>.</p>

<p>This is a collection of resources detailing a local Western Pennsylvanian amusement park, Kennywood, and their responses to civil rights issues throughout the early-mid 20th century. <br></p> <p>The Learning lab is designed to be used by educators to implement local primary sources into their classroom curriculum. All Kennywood source material found here is housed in the <a href="https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/search?type=dismax&f%5B0%5D=mods_relatedItem_host_titleInfo_title_ms%3AKennywood%5C%20Park%5C%20Records%2C%5C%201895%5C-2018%2C%5C%20MSS%5C%20141%2C%5C%20Detre%5C%20Library%5C%20and%5C%20Archives%2C%5C%20Senator%5C%20John%5C%20Heinz%5C%20History%5C%20Center">Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center</a>. </p>

<p>This collection contains resources for the teacher guide to the Pittsburgh CLO's performance of <em>Arriba Arriba!</em>. </p> <p><br /></p>

<p>Resources for the CLO Guide</p>

<p><em>Thinking About History</em> contains resources that provide teachers with useful tools for helping students think about the past and multiple ways for accessing information about history, ranging from photographs to literature. This curriculum pack was produced by the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania and includes sources  and materials  (be sure to click on the paper clip and/or info icon on each item to find out more about it). </p>

<p><em>Fast Lines: Transportation, 1800–1900</em> contains activities, primary sources, and other information to help teach students about the effect of transportation in western Pennsylvania  (be sure to click on the paper clip and/or info icon on each item to find out more about it). </p>

<p>This collection was created to support a workshop on integrating primary sources and student writing for teachers at Peters Township High School. These resources can be used to design a document-based question to answer the following inquiry:</p> <p>Were Pittsburgh's urban renewal programs in the 1950s and 60s ultimately helpful or harmful?</p> <p>Teachers may want to excerpt the documents included in this collection before giving them to students to use. You may also want to introduce students to the concept of "purposeful annotation" as they read through the documents (resources included).</p> <p>Finally, an articles on urban renewal today and a lesson plan from Global Oneness Project on gentrification and urban renewal in Seattle provide additional resources for teachers.</p> <p>Tags: C3, Inquiry, urban renewal, demolition, construction, slums, Teenie Harris, Charles Olmstead, Pittsburgh</p>

<p></p> <p>In this History Lab, we will think about how many objects can work together to tell a story. How does a time capsule help us to learn about the past? What would you put in your own time capsule?</p> <p>To talk with us and learn about more time capsules, join us for the History Lab Debrief! Visit <a href="https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/learn/history-at-home/learn-history-online">https://www.heinzhistorycenter...</a> and look for the History Lab section to find the registration link. We hope you can join us!</p>

<p>Welcome to the Heinz History Center's History Lab, where we ask questions about the past, think about what makes history cool, and sharpen your history skills!</p>

<p>First formed in 1951, the Allegheny County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (ACC-PARC) was established as a grassroots organization comprised of the parents of people with disabilities. The aspect of ACC-PARC’s daily activities most represented in these records are the efforts of the association to investigate the treatment of people with disabilities at residential care facilities in Western Pennsylvania during the 1960s and 1970s.</p> <p>This Learning Lab collection is designed to highlight the specific steps taken by the parents and members of ACC-PARC as they advocated for change in residential care facilities in this region. Each document illuminates a specific step or tactic used by the parents as they attempted to raise awareness of poor treatment of people with disabilities, stop overcrowding and under-staffing in facilities, and push for legislation to ensure the well-being of residents.</p> <p>This archival collection and the materials presented in this Learning Lab collection are housed at the Detre Library and Archives at the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, PA:</p> <p><strong>Title: Bob Nelkin Collection of Allegheny County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (ACC-PARC) Records</strong> </p> <p><strong>Dates: 1953-2000</strong> </p> <p><strong>Creator: Nelkin, Bob</strong> </p> <p><strong>Catalog Number: MSS 1002</strong> </p> <p>#socialchange #disabilityhistory #advocacy #changemaker</p>

<p>This Learning Lab collection is designed to accompany the Pittsburgh CLO's teacher guide for <em>Beyond the Moon.</em> In this new Gallery of Heroes musical, fifteen-year-old Maya has big dreams of being the first person to set foot on Mars but believes she is simply too ordinary to become an astronaut. Her view of what is possible transforms when actual NASA astronauts past and present, including Neil Armstrong, Mae Jemison, and José Hernandez, take her on an amazing journey to discover that extraordinary feats are accomplished by regular people one step at a time.</p><p>The activity is based on <a href="https://pbskids.org/designsquad/build/touchdown/">"Touchdown," created by PBS Kids Design Squad.</a> It was adapted by the Heinz History Center to include the story of the Alcoa aluminum innovation used for the legs of the Lunar Module. </p>