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2007-2008 School Programs
Cemetery Stories
Dates: October 9-12 & 15-19, 2007
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.
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.
NYS Standards CoveredStories From a Stone
Dates: November 6-9 & 13-16, 2007
Times: 9:15am, 12:30pm
Duration: 90-minute program
Location: Geneva Historical Society Museum
Grade Level: 4
This program is conducted at the Geneva Historical Society using actual objects from our 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 objects and reproductions related to both Native American and European-American culture and history.
NYS Standards CoveredTales of Christmas Past
Dates: December 4-7, 11-14, 2007
Times: 9am, 10am, 11am, 12:45pm
Duration: 50 minute program
Location: Geneva Historical Society Museum
Grade Level: 1-3
Visit the Prouty-Chew House in its yuletide splendor. Learn how the Prouty family celebrated Christmas in the 1800s and see the kinds of toys the children received. Younger grades may do a simple hands-on activity.
Please note that part of the program may take place on the main floor of the museum, which is not easily accessible to the physically challenged. If you have students for whom this may be difficult, please call me and we will do our best to accommodate your entire group.
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
Taking Tea
Dates: March 10-April 10, 2008
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: 1840 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: $2.00 per student for students from Seneca Falls and Geneva School Districts.
$3.00 per student all other districts
The maximum number of students per session is 25.
Registration does not begin until January 14, 2008, 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
Quilting: A Patchwork of Traditions
Location: Your classroom
Dates & Times: Available by request
Duration: 45 minute program
Grade Level: Grades 4-5
This program focuses on the tradition of quilting as an art and as a record of women’s historical experience. Particular emphasis is placed on African-American traditions of quilting. Can incorporate pre or post visit hands-on activities.
NYS Standards Covered:
Social Studies Standard 1
English Language Arts Standard 1
Arts Standards 3, 4
Hunting Down the Past
Location: Your classroom
Dates & Times: Available by request in September & October 2007
Duration: 60 minute program
Grade Level: 5
This program helps prepare students for the DBQ & 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 the Society Educator, 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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