Ontario County Historical Museum
Museum Visits
To plan museum visits, learn about visits to your school or for more information contact Nancy Parsons, Education Coordinator, at (585) 394-4975 or email educator@ochs.org.
Our museum is Handicap Accessible.
To plan museum visits, learn about visits to your school or for more information contact Nancy Parsons, Education Coordinator, at (585) 394-4975 or email educator@ochs.org.
Our museum is Handicap Accessible.
Home School
Home school groups are welcome. Some education programs can be offered to multiage groups. (ages 5 through 8, ages 11 through 13) The program minimum of $30 applies to home school groups. Please, very young siblings can distract from learning.
Home school groups are welcome. Some education programs can be offered to multiage groups. (ages 5 through 8, ages 11 through 13) The program minimum of $30 applies to home school groups. Please, very young siblings can distract from learning.
Program Fees
Beginning on January 1, 2009, program fees will be $3 per student with a minimum of $30 per program. There is no charge for teachers and other accompanying adults.
Beginning on January 1, 2009, program fees will be $3 per student with a minimum of $30 per program. There is no charge for teachers and other accompanying adults.
Teachers
How can this page better help you as a teacher? Contact the Educator to discuss developing a customized program for a complete school grade, or any comments or suggestions.
Our Programs
Green Corn Festival and Puppet Theater: A Haudenosaunee (Seneca) Thanksgiving
Level – Kindergarten Duration – 40 minutes
Offered in the fall at our site or yours, this program can accommodate 2 classes per session.
Students discuss seasonal change and family celebrations. Students experience traditional Seneca Thanksgiving at the Green Corn Festival. (puppetry) Students participate in social dancing to recorded traditional Seneca music.
NYS Standards – Social Studies Standard 1, ELA Standards 1 and 2
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1234 Cake in the Open Hearth Kitchen: Early Settlement Era – circa 1790-1810
Level – Kindergarten Duration – 60 minutes
Offered throughout the school year at the museum. 1 class per session
Students compare the open hearth kitchen to their own kitchen at home – “now and then.”
Discussion - Where does our food come from today as compared to 200 years ago? Shopping versus growing your own. Students participate in kitchen chores – grinding sugar, churning butter, measuring and mixing a 1234 cake. Discussion of baking in an open hearth fireplace. Students will sample a small piece of premade 1234 cake – flour, sugar, butter, eggs.
NYS Standards – Social Studies Standard 1, ELA Standard 1
1234 Cake – Version 2
Level – First through third grade Duration 75 minutes
1 class per session
Covers some of the components listed above in the Kindergarten program and also covers the technology of the open hearth kitchen. How were the jobs in the kitchen accomplished and what tools were used. Discussion of the trades people who helped to build early communities.
NYS Standards – Social Studies Standard 1, ELA Standard 1, MSTech – Standard 5 back to top
Reading Museum Artifacts – choose either Revolutionary War era – Western New York or Civil War era - Western New York
Level – 7th grade Duration – 40 minutes
1 class per session
Offered throughout the school year at school site.
The Revolutionary War artifacts also raise questions about objects that move across cultures - between Native and Euro-American populations.
Introduction to reading artifacts – clues or evidence of the past
Artifact stations – curatorial gloves provided
Questions to ponder - What is the size, type of material, what are the unique properties of the artifact? Why was this object important in its time? What does it tell you about the people who used it?
Appropriate journal entries (Revolutionary War) and letters (Civil War) are provided for classroom use.
This program was designed with the Canandaigua Middle School 7th grade enrichment teacher.
NYS Standards – Social Studies Standard 1, ELS Standards 1 and 3 back to top
Green Corn Festival and Puppet Theater: A Haudenosaunee (Seneca) Thanksgiving
Level – Kindergarten Duration – 40 minutes
Offered in the fall at our site or yours, this program can accommodate 2 classes per session.
Students discuss seasonal change and family celebrations. Students experience traditional Seneca Thanksgiving at the Green Corn Festival. (puppetry) Students participate in social dancing to recorded traditional Seneca music.
NYS Standards – Social Studies Standard 1, ELA Standards 1 and 2
back to top
1234 Cake in the Open Hearth Kitchen: Early Settlement Era – circa 1790-1810
Level – Kindergarten Duration – 60 minutes
Offered throughout the school year at the museum. 1 class per session
Students compare the open hearth kitchen to their own kitchen at home – “now and then.”
Discussion - Where does our food come from today as compared to 200 years ago? Shopping versus growing your own. Students participate in kitchen chores – grinding sugar, churning butter, measuring and mixing a 1234 cake. Discussion of baking in an open hearth fireplace. Students will sample a small piece of premade 1234 cake – flour, sugar, butter, eggs.
NYS Standards – Social Studies Standard 1, ELA Standard 1
1234 Cake – Version 2
Level – First through third grade Duration 75 minutes
1 class per session
Covers some of the components listed above in the Kindergarten program and also covers the technology of the open hearth kitchen. How were the jobs in the kitchen accomplished and what tools were used. Discussion of the trades people who helped to build early communities.
NYS Standards – Social Studies Standard 1, ELA Standard 1, MSTech – Standard 5 back to top
Reading Museum Artifacts – choose either Revolutionary War era – Western New York or Civil War era - Western New York
Level – 7th grade Duration – 40 minutes
1 class per session
Offered throughout the school year at school site.
The Revolutionary War artifacts also raise questions about objects that move across cultures - between Native and Euro-American populations.
Introduction to reading artifacts – clues or evidence of the past
Artifact stations – curatorial gloves provided
Questions to ponder - What is the size, type of material, what are the unique properties of the artifact? Why was this object important in its time? What does it tell you about the people who used it?
Appropriate journal entries (Revolutionary War) and letters (Civil War) are provided for classroom use.
This program was designed with the Canandaigua Middle School 7th grade enrichment teacher.
NYS Standards – Social Studies Standard 1, ELS Standards 1 and 3 back to top
