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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 Ohio Village is open only on specific dates for special events and school programming for the
following tours/programs.
The Ohio Village is open on specific dates for special events and school programming. Ohio Village programs are listed below along with the programs for the Ohio Historical Center. 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.
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Costs per student are:
Museum Visit for Students $3.00 admission
30 Minute Program $4.00 includes admission
Featured Exhibit Programs $7.00 includes admission
Programs $7.00 includes admission
Chaperones $3.00
Teachers Free
Favorite Ongoing Ohio Historical Center Exhibits:
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/#ohc
Featured Exhibit:
Soul! Art from the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center - Feature Exhibition Programs
(May 1, 2009 - February 27, 2010, reservations required)
Soul! Museum Visit for students $3.00
Soul! Exhibit Programs for students $7.00 includes admission
Discover the stories. Feel the passion. Experience 200 years of culture and history. Soul! is an open invitation to explore and celebrate the emotions that connect us...one to another...through the artwork, music and words of African American artists.
Make your reservation today by calling 614.297.2663 or e-mailing lcornathan@ohiohistory.org@ohiohistory.org.
Soul! Program information coming soon.
Special Programs:
Program: Achievement Advantage
(March 18, 19, 25, 26, 2010 - Grades 4 & 5)
(73 k)
Students have the opportunity to sharpen the skills necessary for success in the upcoming achievement tests with this engaging program. The students will work with timelines, maps, artifacts, and more as they participate in hands-on activities to solve problems. This program focuses the Social Studies Academic Content Standards and is based on the grade level indicators for fourth and fifth grades.
Program: Discover Archaeology (May 4, 11, 18, 25, 2010) (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.
Program: Early Ohio Life: Comparing Cultures (Fall 2010 to be announced) (
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.
Program: Ohio or Bust: Ohio's Pioneer Experience
(Fall 2010 to be announced)
(73 k)
Homeschool family groups explore four hands-on stations (transportation; clothing and clothing production; farming and food preparation; and recreation) together to gain an appreciation of the daily lives of Ohio’s pioneers from the late 1700s to 1830. Families will have the opportunity to handle authentic and reproduction artifacts and images. They will work together to perform a hands-on activity at each station (such as using a hominy mill and weaving jean cloth) read the quotes of real-life pioneers, and engage in discussion. Using these experiences, and their prior knowledge and experience, each family will be given 30 - 40 minutes to develop a three-minute play connecting what they experienced to own lives and experiences. Families will then perform their plays.
Program: School Days! School Days! (March 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 24, 31, April 14, 21, 2010) (72 k)
Students will learn of schooling and the study of reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic in a one-room
school during the late 1800s during this half-day workshop.
Prerequisite Activities: (Required) (15 k)
Program: Thunder Mugs and Tea Cups (Victorian Life) (May 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28, 2010) (80 k)
During this program students will learn of the splendor and hardships of the Victorian life in a small
Ohio town during the late 1800s. There will be hands on activities to illustrate the life of a child
during this time.
Program: Underground Railroad Program (March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, April 1, 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22, 2010) (60 k)
For this program, costumed characters greet students at the various businesses and residences of the
Ohio Village. At each location along the way students will learn about slavery, states' rights, and
abolitionists.
Program: Winter Holidays (December 2010 to be announced) (92 k)
This program examines several ethnic winter holidays and traditions, and how each culture celebrated
them.
30 Minute Program: American Indian Voices from the Past (September through March) (62 k)
During this 30 minute hands-on 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.
30 Minute Program: Animals that Go Bump in the Night (September through March)
(50 k)
Ohio's nocturnal animals are the subject of this 30 minute hands-on 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.
30 Minute Program: Inhabitants Before There Was an Ohio (September through March) (62 k)
During this 30 minute presentation, students handle
authentic and reproduction artifacts and learn about the cultures of Ohio’s
prehistoric peoples. In the process, they will learn about the chronology,
settlement patterns and economic practices of Ohio’s prehistoric peoples.
Following the program students use Venn diagrams to make comparisons and
draw conclusions. The Discovery Theater is the setting for this program.
30 Minute Program: Settling the Ohio Frontier (September through March) (61 k)
Through this 30 minute hands-on 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.
30 Minute Program: So, You Think You Know Ohio? (September through March) (60 k)
A game show format is followed with this 30 minute hands-on 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.
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