Throughout the world, educators and students from grade to graduate school are using oral history in a variety of disciplines and for a variety of reasons including: (1) Making history come alive for students; (2) Providing students with authentic opportunities to be practicing historians; (3) Allowing students to contribute to the historical record through the creation and preservation of a primary source; (4) Giving back to the communities in which they live and study by preserving their history through service-learning projects or within Place-Based education programs; (5) Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of oral history as a historical methodology. Oral history is most often integrated into classrooms and programs through "ready-made" oral history sources, or through an oral history projects that can last from one-day or a whole school year.