All programs are inquiry-based, artifact-based, hands-on learning, and correlate to the Ohio Academic Content Standards in Social Studies, Science, Math, and Language Arts. Unless otherwise indicated, all programs are two hours and include admission into the History Museum & Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum. Ask for more details when making your reservation.
Making Tracks at the Museum Museum Program Pre K – K Students learn to distinguish and define modes of transportation through a story and assembling puzzles of the airplanes, automobiles, horse-drawn wagons and boats in the Crawford museum. They tour the collection to identify the “real thing”. One hour program. Pre-K Standards >
Playtimes Past Museum Program Pre K-K (1 hour) Grades 1,2 (90 Minutes) What was life like for a child a century ago? How did it compare to childhood today? Using either the Hanna-Bingham or Hay-McKinney mansion as a backdrop, students will explore the similarities and differences in daily life now and then. Hands-on play with replica toys allows children to exercise a new set of game skills, and using a graph to chart their favorites introduces a critical thinking exercise. Early Learning Standards > / Grade1 > / Grade2 >
Getting Around Museum Program Grates 1-2 Grade 1: Students “get around” in the history of transportation by creating a picture timeline and then finding the objects on their timeline in the collection of vehicles in the Crawford Auto-Aviation museum. They “get around” on a giant floor map of the Western Reserve by physically placing the compass rose, direction words, symbols and labels according to the map key. They “get around” the museum by learning how to use a map of the floor plan and adding symbols to indicate what they see. Grade 2: Students make a picture timeline of transportation and find examples to match among the vehicles in the famous collection of the Crawford Auto Aviation museum. They use compasses to orient their way and use the concept of bird’s eye (aerial) view to create their own map of a section of the museum. Grade1 Standards > / Grade2 >
Into the Woods- Newly Revised and Refurbished! Museum Program Grades 1-4 Students compare and contrast Eastern Woodland American Indians and Early Settler land use and daily life in immersion spaces of the museum in re-created sections of a wigwam and a blacksmith shop. Hands-on activities such as map skills and bartering help students understand the similarities and differences in the ways cultures meet common human needs. Grade1 Standards > / Grade2 > / Grade3 > / Grade4 >
Moving Through Time: Cleveland Rolls, Floats, and Flies Museum Program Grades 3-5 Students use hands-on inquiry in a variety of activities in the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum to learn about the history of land, water, and air transportation. Topics include a racing challenge between one-off and assembly line automobile production, the earliest airplane competitions of the Cleveland International Air Races, and the daring Cleveland sailor who made a solo voyage across the Atlantic in a tiny boat. Grade3 Standards > / Grade5 >
From There to Here Museum Program Grades 3-8 Students learn what it was like to be an immigrant, migrant or refugee coming to Northeast Ohio from the 1840s to the 1980s. (Family groups strictly align with ethnic groups in the grade level indicators under People and Societies in the Social Studies Content Standards.) In small groups students unpack the clothing and belongings in the bundle or trunk of one family to discover when they came, where they came from and why they left, and what their hopes are for a future in America. Role-playing their family, they present their individual story to the rest of the class. Grade3 Standards > / Grade4 > / Grade5 > / Grade6 > / Grade7 > / Grade8 >
My Personal History Museum and WRHS Library Program Grades 4-8 Students discover how to find their own histories by becoming history detectives in the unique archives library of WRHS. Students find facts and make inferences about people through hands-on use of primary sources, secondary sources, photos and artifacts. They gather more evidence to unlock the past through music, newspapers and census data. And, they learn some of the basic preservation techniques they can use to protect their own records, photos, memorabilia and other collectibles. Grade4 Standards > / Grade5 > / Grade6 > / Grade7 > / Grade8 >
Was Honest Abe an Abolitionist? Students grades 5-8 Students use primary documents to examine Abraham Lincoln’s views on slavery. Lincoln’s early political philosophies were influenced by the slavery question, and later, his actions as a politician would tackle the question head on. Students also examine Lincoln’s personal opinions about the “peculiar institution”. From an Illinois lawyer who defended abolitionists, through his campaign debates with Stephen Douglas during their 1858 Senate race, to the 1860 Presidential election, Lincoln mirrors the evolution of the abolitionist movement in Ohio and the nation. After the program students will use the information gained to answer for themselves: was Abraham Lincoln an abolitionist?
And I Will Be Heard: Women Claim the Right to Vote Grades 9-10; also for middle school grades Women’s struggle for equality in American political life began in the 1830s and continues today. Passage of the 19th Admendment (1920) was a huge step along the way. students use primary documents, pictures, and photos of artifacts from our history museum collection to reveal how hard the path to suffrage was. Students also use the hands-on materials to construct the arguments made for and against women’s suffrage.
Cleveland:Confronting Decline in an American city Grades 6-12 Many American cities have experienced a persistent crisis of urban decline and the erosion of inner suburbs. Why does this happen? What are the consequences for residents? Can the decline be halted or reversed? These urgent issues are addressed in a provocative new documentary of Cleveland. Your class views sections of this documentary and follows with hands-on activities that reinforce the concepts in the Economics Standard such as regions, resources, markets, trade routes, growth of cities and infrastructure, and standards of living. Free copy of the DVD documentary to each teacher.
Forces and Motion on Land and Ocean Museum Program Grade 3 Push — Pull. Start — Stop. There is no place better than a transportation museum to investigate forces and motion! Rotating through hands-on stations in the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum, students trace and measure motion, identify forces that affect motion, and predict changes when an object experiences a force. Students record their results from experiments that address science and math standards. This program is strictly aligned to the Grade 3 grade level indicators in physical science.
The Sci-Phy of Your Car Museum Program Grade 4 Surrounded by cars from 1900 to 1980s, students use lab notebooks as they rotate through stations to record observations in the changes of technology and application of science over time, to make hypotheses, to complete experiments and to draw conclusions. This program is specifically designed to meet the 4th grade physical science indicators and content standards involving forces and motion, properties and states of matter, physical and chemical changes and temperature changes.
Mechanic’s Corner of Energy and Electricity Museum Program Grade 5-7 In the Mechanic’s Corner and on the museum floor, students connect fifth grade physical science indicators with keeping a car running. They experiment with how to jump start a car battery (electrical circuits), how a radiator is a cooling system (thermal energy), how a muffler changes sound energy, how light reflects and refracts on the windshield, and how electric and solar cars function using chemical changes and light energy. Real life science interactions are the bases of experiments strictly aligned to the content areas of the fifth grade science achievement test.
Techno Math Museum Program Grades, 4, 5, 6, or 8, (four separate programs) Students experience the antique and unique cars in the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum while they use their skills to solve math applications in real-life transportation story problems. In teams of two, students move from station to station in the museum working problems that are strictly aligned to the grade level indicators and achievement tests for grades 4, 5, 6 & 8.
