Objectives

1. The Mobile Exhibit will reach out to all school districts in the state.
2. The student will be engaged in live demonstrations, media presentations, participate in hands-on and interactive activities, and view original documents that shaped our present world.
3. The student will have opportunities and be encouraged to participate at their appropriate level of learning in such activities as remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating.
4. The presentations will support the State of Utah’s core curriculum for social science in the elementary, middle, junior high and high schools.
5. The students and faculty, family and community will be encouraged to cooperate by sharing in the Mobile Exhibit during non-school hours.

Introduction: 5,000 Years of Simply Words (2 minute video presentation)

1. At the beginning a two minute video time capsule of the early development of writing and printing beginning with
2. clay tablets and quickly progressing through time to iPhones of the 21st century

Scriptorium (10 minute live presentation)

1. To show the development of language, words and our alphabet and what impact they had on western civilizations

Benjamin Franklin Printing Shop (30 minute live presentation with hands on activities)

1. To introduce the invention of printing and more specifically the invention of moveable metal type and the influence it had upon the world.
2. To show the development of writing and printing in the 13 English colonies in the New World and the impact they had upon their independence and creation of a new government and nation.
3. To show the impact of printing as the new nation moved westward.

Digitorium (8 minute interactive media and live presentation)

1. To summarize the transformation from high-speed presses to the high-tech printing and communication of the 21st century