Connecticut Historical Society

Purpose: Expanding Educational Service The Connecticut Historical Society (CHS) will use a funding for their Hartford 4th and 5th Grand Social Studies Initiative. Each of the city's 3,900 4th and 5th graders will visit the CHS twice and be taken on an additional grade-appropriate museum field trip. The program was an outgrowth of a request by the public schools' social studies director, who thought that CHS could help bring to life a newly adopted social studies curriculum. CHS intends to make the program a permanent feature of its outreach to HartFord's under-performing public schools. The grant is providing the seed money needed to launch the full program and collect the assessments that will strengthen the case for long-term funding from local sources.