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Fort Vancouver National Historic Site partners

The Fort Vancouver National Historic Site (FVNHS) consists of 366 acres of urban open space, historic structures, and reconstructed buildings that reflect the histories of the Hudson’s Bay Company and the U.S. Army in the Pacific Northwest. The offices of CCRH are located on this site along with the following organizations:

Fort Vancouver

Pearson Air Museum

Officer’s Row

Water Resources Education Center

This unique site offers rich interpretive possibilities that range from pre-contact and the fur trade period to World War II and beyond. CCRH offers public history expertise and interprets the site’s historic themes through research, publication in print and online, and through involvement with site partners and interpretive projects. CCRH also develops and implements educational public programming, provides teacher training, and promotes CCRH and FVNHS offerings. As the only State of Washington partner on the site, CCRH staff engages with FVNHS committees, including the Education, Special Events, Long Range Planning, and Partner’s committees.

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Confluence: The Columbia Slough Environmental Literacy Project

Confluence, the Center for Columbia River History’s Columbia Slough Curriculum Project was an exciting year-long high school “environmental literacy” project. Students at Roosevelt High School studied the histories of their neighborhoods and neighbors in the Columbia Slough.

To view the curriculum and student outcomes, click on Confluence

With the guidance of their teachers, professional historians and neighborhood experts, students explored the environmental, social, and political history of the Columbia Slough area. Students presented their findings in a public program and in a published literary/history magazine in June 2002.

Project developers included Amy Ambrosio (Roosevelt Teacher), Pam Green (Roosevelt Education Assistant), Catherine Theriault (Roosevelt Teacher), Seth Neiderberger (Roosevelt Assistant Teacher), Jonathan Duncan (Consultant), Katy Barber (Project Director, Portland State University Assistant Professor of History), and Donette Miranda (Project Coordinator, Portland State University student).

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Columbia River Studies Curriculum | Educator/Teacher Resources

Columbia River Studies curriculum: An Integrated Course for High School students.

The Columbia River Studies class at Stevenson High School in Stevenson, Washington, was an interdisciplinary course that used science, history, mathematics, geography, technology, art, music, and literature to study a place.

Through studies in class and in the field, students learned about the Columbia River and practiced ways to gather and analyze information about specific places on the river. Individual projects take students into the field to study a place they care about and give them opportunities to study agencies, laws, and developments that have an effect on the landscape and on the natural and human communities that live on the river.