HPI-NCC-AIHE Jr. Historian/Curator Camp
Historic Philadelphia has teamed up with the National Constitution Center and AIHE to create a week long camp for students with a love of History and/or an interest in museum curation. Students will spend a week in Old City Philadelphia visiting museums researching historical figures. The students with a Jr. Historian focus will be creating fact based stories on their research and interviews with HPI First Person Interpreters and AIHE Historians and Master Teachers while the Jr. Curators will be learning the ins and outs of running a museum from the staffs at the Betsy Ross House and the National Constitution Center. This program is slated to happen in 2012 pending funding.
AIHE Student Tours
AIHE facilitated tours of Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston. 1-5 day trips visiting historic sites with a trained historian. On site field studies are proven to increase students interest, awareness, and allows them to connect more deeply to the content they are studying.
Franklin’s Opus Heroes Day History Bowl
In May 2012 Franklin’s Opus will sponsor the 2nd Annual National Heroes Day History Bowl in conjunction with Dennis Denenberg author of Heroes for you. Hosted by the Hotel Hershey in Hershey, PA, student teams from qualifying districts will travel to the Hotel to participate in the History Bowl, competing against one another for the coveted History Bowl Trophy. (Supply a link to the Heroes Day Bowl).
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
Family Life on a 19th Century Estate
(3rd Grade & up) Approx 90 mins.
90 minute on site visit of the 1840′s mansion and carriage house once owned by Robert Bartow a paper manufacturer and book publisher as well as a farmer. He and his wife Maria Lorillard raised 7 children at the mansion. Students will discover what it was like to live on a country estate as a child of wealthy parents and as a young immigrant member of the Bartow’s staff. There is an opportunity to discover artifacts and objects used by families of this time period and find out the answers to these questions: “What’s a Hygiene corner?” “Who emptied the chamber pots?” “Why was the dining room painted purple?” “Whose job was it to care for the horses and how old was he?” State Learning Standards: English Language Arts Standards 1; 3; 4, Social Studies Standards 1; 2; 3, Mathematics, Science and Technology Standards 5;7
Fort Ligonier
(Grades 4-8)
THE ARCHEOLOGY TOUR provides students with the opportunity to examine artifacts unearthed at the Fort over the last fifty years. Students tour the fort with education department staff members and view artifacts that help to tell the story of the French and Indian War fort. The participants gain compelling insight into eighteenth century life the army at Fort Ligonier. “Touch boxes” contain both artifacts found on site during archeology excavations, as well as reproduction items. These objects have been chosen to give students a “hands on” experience in understanding the living conditions of the military community at Fort Ligonier. To see first-hand the broken dishes, coins, wagon parts, worn shoe parts, musket balls, buttons and clay pipe fragments, enables students to understand how the museum staff is able to authentically recreate the interiors of the fort buildings. The archeology tour also permits students to experience the techniques that professional archeologists use in excavating a site. A simulated “dig” allows students to uncover, graph and tag (replica) artifacts.