Outreach Programs

General Information:

• Museum to You – held in your own school!
• Offered Year round.  Especially GREAT for winter months!
• 30-days advanced reservations required.
• Class size requires 30 or fewer participants per session.
• Assembly size requires 100 participants or fewer per session.

History Kids
Grades Pre-K(3) – K
1 hour
Participate in childhood skills of the 17th century through chores, stories and games.
Theme Choices:  Indian or English Children. 
Pre-K Foundation Blocks for Early Learning:  History & Social Studies:  Blocks 1-4.  Science:  Blocks 4, 6-7.
History and Social Science SOLs:  K.1(a), K.2, K.4(b-c), K.6, K.7(a)

Mapping the James River
Grades 1 – 5
1 hour
Learn, through maps, about the impact of the James River on the environment, people, places, and history of the area. Follow Captain John Smith’s 17th century mapping adventure.  Create a 3-D map of the future as a team-building activity.
Also available as an On Site Program.
History and Social Studies SOLs:  1.4(a-b), 1.6, 2.2, 2.4(b-d), 2.5(b), 2.6, 3.5(c-e), 3.6, VS.1(i), VS.2(b-e), USI.1(f), USI.3
Science SOLs:  1.8(a), 2.8(b), 3.6(a-c), 4.5(b,d,f), 5.7(e-f)

Virginia Governments
Grades 6 – 8
1 hour
Experience, with hands-on activities, early Virginia governments (both Indian and English): social duties, civic action, communal needs and economic systems. Follow the development of early American government by establishing rules for safety, health and security and through barter, trade and exchange.
History and Social Science SOLs:  USII.1(b,d), CE.1(f), CE.2(b), CE.3(e), CE.9(a), WHI.1(b,e), WHI.12(d)   
Science SOLs:  LS.8, LS.9, LS.11(b-c), LS.12(a,d)

Virginia Peoples
Grades 1st – 5th
1 hour
Learn how the environment affects how people live and work together to meet their basic needs. This hands-on, team-building, problem-solving program focuses on the cultures of and interactions between the Powhatan Indians and English colonists of 17th-century Virginia. 
History and Social Science SOLs:  1.1, 1.6, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4(c-d), 2.7, 3.7, 3.10(a), VS.1(b,d-e), VS.2, USI.1(b,d), USI.3(b)
Science SOLs:  1.5, 1.7, 1.8(a), 2.5, 2.7(a), 2.8(b), 3.4, 3.6(a-b), 3.9(c-d), 3.10(a-b), 4.5(f), 4.8 

Educational Outreach – Museum to You – Classroom Programs & Assemblies:
Call for program information and SOLs.

Classroom Programs:
Classroom programs are designed for 30 or fewer students at one session.

• History Kids – Indian(Pre-K – K, 45 minutes)
• History Kids – Colonial(Pre-K – K, 45 minutes)
• Mapping the James River(Grades 1 – 5, one hour)
• Virginia Governments(Grades 6 – 9, one hour)
• 17th Century Sciences(Grades 6 – 12, one hour)

Assembly:
Assembly programs are designed for groups of up to 120 students per session.

• Virginia Peoples(Grades 1 – 5, one hour)
• Virginia Governments (Grades 6 – 9, one hour)