To encourage Pennsylvania social science and American history teachers to question their dependency on boring basal texts and show them how non-traditional strategies (e.g. the use of  drama, historical art, documentary photography, and music) can help  them make history come alive in their classrooms
 

To make Pennsylvania’s teachers and students more aware of the importance of one of  the most dramatic, yet most neglected periods of American history: the First Frontier/the French and Indian War
 

To provide Pennsylvania’s teachers with more information on Eastern Woodland Indians so that they can develop in their students a better  understanding of and appreciation for Pennsylvania’s rich Native American heritage
 

To make Pennsylvania’s teachers more aware of Western Pennsylvania’s critical role in the French and Indian War and early American history in general, and of the importance of developing in their students an appreciation for the history that lies buried in their own back yards
 

To remind Pennsylvania social science/history teachers that history is more than the study of names, dates, and events – that it is a record of man’s moral behavior and, as such, offers an ideal opportunity to help students recognize unethical behavior when they see it and, at the same time, help them develop their own moral compasses.