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There are many areas of interest at the Ohio Historical Center site, and preplanning your time at the
site will make a
much more valuable educational experience for your students.
The following tours, programs, and workshops have condensed files that include available dates,
content standards, resources, and links.
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Costs per student are:
Self-Guided Experience $3.00 admission
Discovery Program $3.00 admission
Traveling Exhibition Programs $3.00 admission
Workshops $3.00 admission, add $3.00/student
Programs $3.00 admission, add $3.00/student
Chaperones $3.00 admission
Self Guided Experience: Tour
Students can visit the museum and explore the gallery exhibits "The Nature of
Ohio" and "Ohio Centuries of Change." The Historical Center also features other
changing exhibits. For more information about the current and future special exhibits, visit http://www.ohiohistory.org/etcetera/exhibits/
Rockwell’s America: Celebrating the Art of Norman Rockwell - Feature Exhibition Programs
(November ’08 – February ’09, reservations required)
Rockwell’s America student admission $6 (includes general admission)
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Norman Rockwell is one of our best-loved artists because he tells us the stories of ordinary people and reminds us of our best ideals and qualities. A visit to the exhibit Rockwell's America: Celebrating the Art of Norman Rockwell introduces students to the world of this talented man and helps them to sharpen their skills in reading, thinking, observing, and communicating.
The exhibit features theatrical educational environments and multimedia experiences that not only captivate young minds but also provide plenty of hands-on opportunities to explore, investigate, and try things out. Teachers can choose to pursue one or more tracks that best align with their own classroom goals and students' interests. Pre-visit activities, on-site experiences, multidisciplinary standards-based lessons that can be used before or after a visit, and post-visit culminating experiences can be combined in any number of ways to meet your students' needs.
Consider the materials here, select a track, and make your reservation today by calling 614.297.2663 or e-mailing jleffler@ohiohistory.org.
Visual Arts Track: "Just Imagine"
Ohio Academic Content Standards: Visual Arts – Creative Expression and Communication, Grade 3 A1&2, C5&6; Grade 4 A1; Grade 5 A2
Imagination is the artist’s best tool. Students will explore Norman Rockwell's studio, learn about the tools a visual artist uses, and use art vocabulary. They will investigate the way Rockwell uses the elements of his paintings to tell a story and how artists use their imaginations to create a message and an experience through art. Drawing, painting, writing, "reading" a painting, and jigsawing are but a few of the activities that will appeal to your students.
Technology Track: "Times of Change"
Ohio Academic Content Standards: Technology – Technology and Society Interaction, Grade 4 A1, C2; Grade 5 A2
Students will examine the ways that Norman Rockwell's art tells America's story during times of change. His works are, after all, "20th-century American history on canvas." They will investigate technologies like the automobile, the telephone, and television, and compare the objects from Rockwell's time in the exhibit to those they have today. Opportunities abound to reflect on how changes affect people's lives and how technology in particular is so often part of that change. Comparing/contrasting, timelines, inventions, and more are part of "Times of Change."
Social Studies Track: "City Sidewalks and Country Towns"
Ohio Academic Content Standards: Social Studies – History, Grade 3 C3; Grade 4 C6
Students will step into Rockwell's time and compare everyday life in the city and the country. They will learn how his early experiences led him to become an artist, and explore the social changes that Norman Rockwell portrayed in his art. These changes include the urbanization of our society, the changing roles of women in the 1940s, and civil rights in the 1960s. Reading a biography of Rockwell's early life, identifying influential people, places and events, examining Rockwell's self-portrait, and creating their own add up to learning fun in "City Sidewalks and Country Towns."
Discovery Program: Animals that Go Bump in the Night (September through March)
(50 k)
Ohio's nocturnal animals are the subject of this hands-on Discovery
Program. Through a study of animals and birds that move about during the
night, students will explore the characteristics and structure of life,
heredity, adaptability, and the diversity and interdependence of life.
Students have the opportunity to see preserved nocturnal animals and
touch selected animal skins.
Discovery Program: Settling the Ohio Frontier (September through March) (61 k)
Through this hands-on Discovery Program students will learn of the
pioneer period in Ohio which was brief, spanning the late 1700s through
statehood. This interactive program examines the first settlers in Ohio,
their transportation, their lifestyles, and interaction with the
American Indians.
Discovery Program: American Indian Voices from the Past (September through March) (62 k)
During this hands-on Discovery Program students will learn about the
Ohio Historic American Indians. Students will immerse themselves in the
everyday lives of these people. They will study the chronology,
settlement patterns, economic practices, and understand how the American
Indians' lives were impacted by the expansion of European settlements.
Discovery Program: So, You Think You Know Ohio? (September through March) (60 k)
A game show format is followed with this hands-on Discovery Program.
This program highlights how different people in society contribute to
the common good by examining the accomplishments of Ohio inventors and
entrepreneurs. Students are exposed to a study of Ohio government.
Program: *NEW PROGRAM* Settling Ohio: Native Americans to Pioneers (October only) (
Learn about the first cultures who settled in what is now the state of Ohio. Students
will explore the products and practices of cultures from the prehistoric
American Indians up to the Pioneers in the early 1800's. Through numerous hands-on
activities, students can compare and contrast various aspects of the lifestyles of
the early Ohioans.
Workshop: Discover Archaeology (October, November, April, May) (67 k)
Students will participate in a hands-on simulated archaeological dig
under the direction of an archaeologist or education specialist. They
will excavate the site using proper archaeological methods, retrieve
artifacts, and then analyze their findings to identify and determine how
each may have been used. Important concepts to be stressed include the
chronology, settlement, and culture and history of early civilizations.
See Ohio Village for additional programs.
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