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Dates: October
Times: 9:15am, 10:15am, 12:30pm
Duration: 60 minute program
Location: Washington Street Cemetery
Grade Level: 2-5
Students will learn that cemeteries contain more stories than ghosts. They will explore the stories that cemeteries tell us about our community and the people who have shaped it. They will examine cemetery art and find out what it reveals about the people of the past and use critical thinking skills to discover how some of Geneva’s early residents lived, died and remembered one another. Weather permitting, we will also make gravestone rubbings or do a scavenger hunt, depending on grade level.
Barring serious weather conditions, Cemetery Stories will be held rain or shine at Washington Street Cemetery. Call if you are unsure about the weather. For supplementary materials for classroom use, click here. We recommend bringing 2-3 additional adults to help supervise the gravestone rubbings.
NYS Standards CoveredThis program will be conducted using actual objects from the Geneva Historical Society collection. Students will explore how objects tell stories about the past and will learn how to "read" an object to discover these stories. Using observation and inference, students will understand how tools, art, furniture, clothing, and documents can relate information about different cultures and history. Features a wide variety of actual and reproduction objects related to both Native American and European-American culture and history.
NYS Standards Covered
Social Studies Standard 1
ELA Standard 1, 3
Arts Standards 3,4
MST Standard 1
Dates: December
Times: 9am, 10am, 11am, 12:45pm
Duration: 50 minute program
Location: Geneva History Museum
Grade Level: 1-3
This visit to the Geneva History Museum focuses on the period rooms, which will be decorated for Christmas. Students will find out how the Prouty family celebrated Christmas in the late 1800s and see the kinds of toys the children received.
Please note that most of this program takes place on the main floor of the museum, which is not wheelchair accessible. If you have students for whom this will be a problem, please call me and we can arrange a comparable in-classroom program.
To open an Adobe file [12k] of Christmas entries from Mrs. Prouty's diaries,
click here. For suggested Post Visit Activities
based on the diaries, click here
[23k]. For newspaper ads featuring holiday gifts
click here [2.2MB]. Acrobat Reader is required to view
these files and is available for free. To download, click on Get Acrobat
Reader,
select your language and platform
(Mac or Windows) and then download the Reader.
NYS Standards Covered:
Social Studies Standard 1
English Language Arts Standard 1
Arts Standards 2
Dates: March 20-April 13, 2011
Times: 9:30 and 10:45am
Duration: 2 hour program plus travel time
Location: Rose Hill Mansion and Becker House/Seneca Falls Historical Society
Grade Level:
Grade 4
Taking Tea is a program for fourth grade students which engages them in an active and visual comparison of two different times: 1850 and 1890. Classes imagine they are traveling to the past where they visit two historic houses and meet costumed interpreters portraying the former residents. Through hands-on experiences at Rose Hill Mansion and the Seneca Falls Historical Society Museum, students explore changes in cooking technology, women’s work, and the custom of "taking tea." For supplementary materials, click here.
Preregistration and a previsit session are required.
Fees: $3.00 per student for students from Seneca Falls and Geneva School Districts.
$4.00 per student all other districts
The maximum number of students per session is 25.
Registration does not begin until January 18, 2011, following the mailing of
the brochure.
For more information or to add your name to the distribution list, please call the Geneva Historical Society at 315-789-5151.
NYS Standards Covered:
Social Studies Standard 1
Location: Your classroom
Dates & Times: Available by request in September and October
Duration: 60 minute program
Grade Level: 5
This program helps prepare students for the DBQ and Constructed Response section of the NYS Grade 5 Social Studies test administered in November. Students will learn the difference between primary and secondary sources and how historians use them to understand history. Under the direction of Society staff, students will work with facsimiles of primary documents from the Society collection and learn how historians discover the secrets revealed in photographs, diaries, maps and other old documents.
NYS Standards Covered:
Social Studies Standard 1, 3
English Language Arts Standard 1, 3
For further information about school
programs, contact:
Anne Dealy, Director of Education and Public Information
Geneva Historical Society
543 South Main Street
Geneva, NY 14456
315-789-5151
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