Wow this sounds like such a fascinating project. You picked a good project to analyze for connected learning.

You throw a lot of information as us in those first two sentences. I would suggest reworking the intro to provide a bit more context. Short sentences are good. Sticking a bunch of complex clauses together, regardless of word choice, creativity, and purpose, they can distract the reader. Sentence variety. Some short and other sentences long. Spices it up.

I do love the intergenerational nature of this project.