The Center for History is proud of its extensive list of educational offerings for schools. The museum can meet the needs of students in several ways. Classes can visit the historic houses and exhibit galleries on field trips. The Center for History can also provide education in the classroom by visiting your class with audio/visual materials and through presentation CD-ROMs. Special programs designed just for schools are scheduled at various times throughout the academic year. The Center for History’s Education Department has developed a list of Indiana Academic Standards met through museum visits and school programs.
During Cabin Days, Center for History volunteers, dressed as pioneers, demonstrate cooking, recreation and trades about life in 1830s Michiana. Lively interaction occurs as students, eager to learn about pioneer life, ask questions of the pioneers they are visiting. Students may stop to talk with the Navarre family who are cooking outdoors. They might also be curious about the jars of sassafras root, rosehips, willow bark and leeches (careful, they’re real!) that set in rows in front of Doc Hardman. And the school marm always welcomes the children to her schoolhouse as she teaches lessons from The New McGuffey Second Reader.
