We are committed to providing positive educational experiences for our many
diverse visitors. Educational programs at the Historical Society stress the
development of skills that students of all ages may transfer to other areas of
their educational and personal lives. We place a premium on the use of primary
source material. All our education programs encourage the development of positive attitudes towards archives and
libraries as places for lifelong learning, foster a visitor’s own personally
significant experiences with Hampton Bays history and culture and utilize a range
of interactive approaches based on learning theory to engage visitors of all
ages and developmental levels with artifacts and historic resources.
While most websites focus on explaining what an historical
society is all about, some websites teach researchers of all ages “...how to use
the materials the website provides and to think critically about historical
sources. The sites below offers a variety of approaches to showing the research
process. Some are more successful than others, but all demonstrate an attempt to
help people understand how historians draw conclusions from primary source
materials. The examples are targeted to teachers and students.” AASLH History
News, Winter 2007.
We invite visitors to our website to try these various sites
to see how history is being presented to youngsters and adults alike in various
important museums. These websites are extremely well-done and entertaining. “The
more tools we provide to teachers to help them teach critical thinking skills
through primary sources, the more future generations will see the value of
preserving history.” AASLH History News, Winter 2007.
