Interesting article: Using place as a primary source

Experiential class uses NYC as the classroom
Some high-school students at Ethical Culture Fieldston School, a private school in the Bronx, this year have attended an experiential project-based class called City Semester. The course, which integrates English, history, languages and sciences, has taken students on field trips to homeless shelters and tenements, to a cemetery in the Bronx and Brooklyn's Brighton Beach, and on a two-day canoe trip down the Bronx River. "The idea is to use place as a primary source," said teacher Andrew Meyers. The New York Times (tiered subscription model)