Students Make Sure the Cherokees Are Not Removed... Again: A Study of Service- Learning and Artful Learning in Teaching History

Bringing history alive in one Southern, suburban middle school, this application of community-action service-learning and artful learning is chronicled from inception to conclusion. this qualitative participatory action research study explored the effects of this program on 8th-grade gifted students. the purpose of the study was to examine one specific, successful program involving gifted students in a learn and Serve america grant project site in reference to the service-learning and artful learning Models. the results showed improved achievement and suggested enhanced metacognition, self-effi-cacy, and altruism. the students were actively involved in their own learning, eventu-ally making a difference in their community. Hannah stood in front of the Natural Resources Committee at the State Capitol and distributed letters from her classmates asking the committee to save an historic site. Dressed in her first grown-up heels, she took a deep breath and commenced. You have heard the story of the Cherokee people and why the last piece of the Cherokee nation that remains in Georgia