A StoryWalk® is a fun, educational activity that enables children to enjoy reading, the outdoors, and exercise all at the same time! Laminated pages from a children’s story book are attached to wooden stakes to create a walking route for a fun, outdoor reading experience.
Everyone has a history worth recording. Family Ties provides students with the tools to tell their stories. During the program, students learn how Jacob and Dorothy Stekionis emigrated from Lithuania just after WWI and lived in the tenant farmhouse at Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm, working the land, raising a family, and adapting to a new life here […]
Students explore Colonial life in authentic settings as they visit Coffin House, Swett-Ilsley House, and Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm as well as the Newbury Common. During the program, they learn about first period architecture and food traditions as they draw Coffin House and then make butter in the historic buttery. At Swett-Ilsley House, students experience a one-room […]
In this program, students explore the unique ecology of winter in their classroom and the school yard. They compare the ways that modern and colonial humans, as well as wildlife and farm animals, have adapted to survive the cold weather months.
Using the wool from the flock of sheep at Historic New England’s Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm, students learn each step in the process of creating cloth. While they pick, clean, card, and spin wool by hand, they learn how technology provides improved tools to make each step faster and more efficient. They then try their hand at […]
Although Historic New England doesn’t currently offer formal education programs in New Hampshire, we would be happy to provide a customized visit for your class to any of our properties. Follow the links below to contact the site you are interested in visiting.
What did people experience during Civil War? If you were a soldier, how did you spend your day? How did troops communicate? How did the war affect African Americans? Soldier’s families? Students use their inquisitiveness and historical thinking skills to explore the past and gain a deeper understanding of the Civil War and its impact. […]
In 1770 Colonel Josiah Quincy I built the current Quincy House on his 250-acre country estate. Colonel Quincy and his son Josiah were devoted patriots, but his son Samuel was a loyalist who left for England after the battles at Lexington and Concord and never returned to America. The Revolution divided the family forever.
Students learn about bird life cycles while helping to preserve the endangered Dominique chicken breed, which is raised at Casey Farm. A farm educator visits the classroom with everything needed to incubate a clutch of eggs, sets up the equipment, and engages students in a hands-on presentation about Dominique chickens and eggs. Twenty-one days later, […]
Why did colonists choose to be Loyalist, Patriot, or uncommitted? How did life change for the colonists before and during the Revolutionary War? What was the influence of propaganda? This hands-on program brings American Revolutionary War history to life at the museum or at your school.
Take your students on a trip back to the year 1800. This short program is designed to fit into a daylong class trip to Boston. Museum educators lead students on a dynamic, interactive tour of Otis House, the home of Harrison Gray Otis, Sally Foster Otis, and their young family living in Boston after the […]
What is a farm and what happens there? To find out about life on Casey Farm, students meet farm animals, explore fields and farm buildings, get to act like a draft horse, and learn what it’s like to milk a cow. Through these experiences, they see how every animal contributes to the success of the […]
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