PERRY, Utah — Students at a Box Elder County school are getting an up-close look at Utah’s ancient history.

The Promontory School of Expeditionary Learning recently took students on an overnight field trip to Sevier County, where they saw petroglyphs and artifacts of the Fremont people. “I thought the petroglyphs and the hieroglyphs were really cool because we got to see how they painted and what their story was,” said 6th-grade student Alice Nielsen.

“Most of them were hunting, with the bighorn sheep, and the men with spears,” added 6th grader Sydnee Keller.

Administrators at the school believe this type of learning has a bigger impact than reading stories from a history textbook. “Instead of just memorizing things in a textbook, we are taking our students to the locations, talking to

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