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School Programs
Museum tours and programs
are thematic and relate to the Society’s exhibitions,
historic homes, and the historic landscape surrounding
us. Tours and programs are given by guides experienced
with school audiences of all ages. Many can be adapted
for a classroom setting. All Windsor Historical Society
programs have been designed to meet the goals and
objectives of the Connecticut Frameworks.
*Can be adapted for classroom
presentations.
My Day at the Museum…
Grades Pre-K – 2; Length: 60
minutes
This tour introduces our
youngest visitors to museums and collections. Meet
different people who work in the museum and create your
own mini museum in a project to take home.
Mrs. Howard’s Store
Grades Pre-K – 2; Length: 60
minutes
Use costumes and props to
recreate Mrs. Howard’s 18th century store. Students
will work together to learn the differences between
goods and services and consumers and producers.
Encounter! Native Americans Meet The
English
Grades Pre-K – 3; Length: 60
minutes
Furs, maps, artifacts and
more show how Native Americans used rivers, woods, and
wildlife and how they and early English settlers got
along.
Colonial Life in Windsor*
Grades 3 – 12; Length: 90
minutes
How did colonists keep warm,
light their homes, and cross rivers? Try clothing,
powder horns, and wool carders and enjoy some colonial
games!
Revolution in Windsor*
Grades 3 – 12; Length: 90
minutes
Explore the causes and
effects of the Revolutionary War and its relationship to
Windsor. Battlefront letters, supply lists, and
reproduction artifacts tell how soldiers and their
families in Windsor coped with the War for
Independence.
Add-On Program
Palisado Cemetery Tour
Grades Pre-K – 12; Length:
45 minutes
Explore Palisado Cemetery
and learn more about people buried there and how
gravestones evolved.
Program Reservations
Reservations
are required for all programs.
Program Hours:
Tuesday - Friday, 10am - 4pm.
Fees and Payments:
$5 per student for school programs, Add-On Programs are $2 per
student.
* There is a minimum $40
program fee.
Pre & Post Visit Materials:
After you schedule your program, you will receive a Pre
& Post Visit Materials binder with information to
prepare you and your class for their trip. While use of
lesson plans is not required, they are filled with
primary-source activities designed to improve your
experience and understanding of the themes.
Chaperones:
We require one chaperone for every ten students.
Teachers and parent chaperones must remain with students
at all times. Maintaining student order and discipline are responsibilities of teachers and parent
chaperones during a museum program. Museum staff
members have been instructed to stop the program if
student order and/or discipline becomes an issues. They will
ask teachers and parent chaperones to resolve issues so
that the program may continue.
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