Designed for: Various Grade levels
Maximum Number: 30 participants
Length: 60 minutes

To schedule programs, call (513) 287-7021
Programs in October, November, December are discounted by 10%.

One World, Many Cultures
Grades 1-4 (History, Sociology, Geography strands)
Take a trip around the world, navigating your way with maps and travel buddies. Use clothing, crafts, games, celebrations, music and photographs to explore other cultures from Africa, Asia, Australia, and South and North America.

NEW! Impact of Inventions
Grades 1-6 (History, Sociology, Economics strands)
Ever wonder what life would be like without light bulbs, traffic lights, or farmers’ almanacs? Many inventors, such as Benjamin Banneker, Garrett Morgan, Eli Whitney, George Washington Carver, and Patricia Bath, have changed our daily lives. Using a timeline, experiments, hands-on activities, and role playing investigate the impact of their inventions, and others, on the past, present, and perhaps, the future.

Transportation Transformations
Grades 3-6 (History, Geography strands)
Learn how canals, streetcars and inclines impacted the growth of Cincinnati from the 1820s through the 1950s. Learn about a period folksong, role-play loading goods on a canal boat, “ride” one of Cincinnati’s five inclines and view historical photographs of these forms of transportation.

When Two Worlds Met
Grades 3-6 (History, Sociology strands)
The North American fur trade brought together people from two different worlds. Exchange furs, coins and wampum for replica goods from a late 18th century trading post. Step into first person roles as the signers of the Treaty of Greenville to learn about the Battle of Fallen Timbers.

Business Beginnings
Grades 3-8 (History, Economics strands)
Investigate the beginnings of soap and candle making, meatpacking, furniture making, and brewing in 19th-century Cincinnati. Working in small groups to review period business records, illustrations and historical artifacts, learn how productive resources were used in these industries and how they impacted production and consumption. Economic terms such as opportunity cost, scarcity, profit and loss are used in this program.

Lewis and Clark
Grades 3-8 (History, Sociology, Geography strands)
From grizzly bears to prickly pears, use maps, historical artifacts, parched corn and primary source material to study the wildlife, unknown lands and people the Corps of Discovery encountered on the expedition that changed the course of history. Primary source material includes a Meriwether Lewis manuscript owned by Museum Center and replicas of the Jefferson Peace Medal.

Liberty on the Border
Grades 3-8 (History, Sociology, Geography strands)
Through photographs, prints, maps, replicas and other period materials participants study territorial expansion, compromises, historical figures, economics, causes, course and effects of the Civil War. Hardtack, ammunition developed for this war and a haversack containing letters written during this time period help to give participants a look into the soldier’s way of life.

Lotions, Potions and Strange Notions
Grades 3-8 (History, Sociology strands)
Learn what 19th-century people once thought caused cholera then role-play what effects/symptoms this disease caused. Touch a “giant microbe” of Vibrio cholerae (Cholera) and investigate where we still have this disease today. Compare the names of illnesses used in the past with what they are called today. Explore old-fashioned home and herbal remedies then use mortars and pestles to roll herbal pills like those dispensed in 19th-century apothecaries.

The Underground Railroad: Its history, Its people, Its glory
Grades 3-9 (History, Sociology strands)
Look at the history of slavery and the Underground Railroad. Using a time line, pictures, slave shackles, photographs, navigational tools and true stories of actual historical figures, children re-create elements of this incredible journey. Through this program children will better understand the resourcefulness, courage and determination of freedom-seeking slaves as they are given a slave name and told that slave’s story.

Walking City
Grades 3-9 (History, Geography strands)
Explore how geographic factors kept Cincinnatians confined to the downtown basin and why it remained a walking city longer that most. Use a 2’x3’ period map, the map key, advertisements and illustrations to perform a series of tasks that help you understand what life was like in 1863 Cincinnati. Miniature drawings of building facades and people combined with some little pigs help to make this a life-like experience.