Students will enter the project through a hands-on museum-style launch, investigate artifacts and maps to spark historical questions, and begin organizing themselves as exhibit teams for a longer inquiry into how cultures shape places over time.

Students will investigate artifact and map clues, refine a focused historical question, draft a hypothesis, and build a peer-reviewed research plan for collecting evidence that will later become exhibit labels, maps, and family-facing museum pieces.

Students will gather and document evidence from sources, oral histories, maps, and artifact investigations; test the traceability of their notes and draft labels through critique; and revise exhibit materials so their future claims are grounded in clear, cited evidence.

Students will analyze patterns in their source sets, compare how different cultures influenced a state or country over time, revise exhibit pieces through critique, and prepare evidence-based conclusions, portfolio pages, and family-facing explanations for the Heritage Hallway Walk.

Students will present their completed Heritage Hallway Walk exhibits to families, peers, and invited community partners, explain how different cultures shaped their chosen place over time using evidence from sources and artifact studies, and complete a short curated portfolio reflection that documents revision, growth, and remaining questions.