Total workshop time: 2 hours

Time	Activity	Materials & equipment
Pre Workshop	Music from collections will be playing on a CD on one of the computers.
5 min	Tell an anecdote about how we all have folklore.	None
35 min	1. Filling in Seasonal Round Calendars Show completed round with colored lines, pencils, markers, drawings, discuss concept of the round. Participants complete individual blank calendars. The group examines the Coal River Round. Pairs compare calendars. Volunteers report comparisons, and group discusses uses of the round.	Blank calendars, colored markers, Coal River Round handout Seasonal Round Worksheet Seasonal Round of Activities on Coal River, WV (This activity may be extended by making seasonal round collages with cardboard cake rounds, paints, markers, fabric scraps, and other art supplies.)
10 min	2. Defining Folklore Highlight key points on handout and define folklore	Folklife and Fieldwork: A Layman's Introduction to Field Techniques, American Folklife Center American Folklife: A Commonwealth of Cultures, American Folklife Center
30 min	3. Reflecting on Sense of Place Show a Postcard of Place drawn on index card. Evoke participants' memories of a place through the five senses and ask them to draw on cards. Each person shares a story and shows picture. Participants ask the teller questions, teller writes questions on back of card but cannot answer. Group discusses the questions, how not responding is hard but is practice for fieldwork skills, how fieldwork both produces content and teaches important skills.	Big index cards, colored pencils, markers
25 min	4. Analyzing and Classifying Images Participants stand in a circle and each receives an image to examine in depth. Leader puts another image on the floor and asks people to create a "museum" by laying down their images and their postcards of place wherever they see a relationship-color, shape, era, theme, etc. Group members discuss why they laid images where they did, make adjustments, reach consensus on final museum design. Discuss: What would an outsider see? How important is context? How many ways could these images be manipulated and arranged? What would students get from this exercise?	Laminated images from AM Collections, participants' postcards of place, regular postcards
15 min	5. Finding Folklife in American Memory Collections Online Participants begin online search using handout to find examples of folklife in various American Memory collections. Brainstorm: Participants quickly list a number of ways that they can envision using folklore content and fieldwork in their classrooms and American Memory lesson plans.	Folklife Scavenger Hunt & Folk Culture Clues to Sense of Place