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.
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.
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, […]
These fun-filled programs combine themed story books and hands-on craft activities to introduce children in preschool through second grade to New England’s history, at Historic New England’s Pierce House or your location. New programs are frequently added. The examples below are some of our most popular. Contact us for more possibilities!
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 […]
Explore the pastimes of children from the Pilgrim era to the first years of the New Republic. Students make a toy, play games, solve riddles, and find out how changing attitudes towards childhood affected children’s toys and pastimes.
Explore the pastimes of children from the Puritan era to the first years of the New Republic. Students play games, solve riddles, and find out how changing attitudes towards childhood affected children’s toys and pastimes.
Join us at Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm for a weekly program of farm-related activities, outdoors in the sunshine or the sprinkles. Sessions run Fridays from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. throughout the school year.
What does your room say about you? Learn about special spaces at Historic New England houses, view a scrapbook house owned by a nineteenth-century girl, and design your own room using collage materials.
Learn what life in colonial times was like for children in New England. A series of hands-on activities teach about the work, education and play of the Pierce children in eighteenth-century Dorchester. Students will see reproduction clothing that boys and girls wore in the past. Each student will make an herbal sachet, write with quill […]
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