Ideas for teaching kids to Seek, Discover, and Look at Michigan's History.
Learn about the life of a French voyageur and the Great Lakes fur trade as you help pack a canoe. Find out what goods were traded, how they were packed, how many men traveled in a canoe and how much weight the canoe could carry. (GLCEs: 3-H3.0.6, 3-E1.0.1, 3-E1.0.3, N.MR.03.10, P.FM.03.38)
Explore life in a lumber camp as you learn how “green gold” changed Michigan’s economy. Learn “logger’s lingo” and find products made from trees! (GLCEs: 4-H3.0.3, 4-H3.0.4, 4-H3.0.8, 4-G5.0.1, 4-E1.0.5, N.FL.04.36, M.PS.04.02)
Why do people leave their homes to move to a new place? What do they bring with them and what do they leave behind? Learn about immigrants who have come to Michigan through stories, role-playing and artifacts. (GLCEs: 4-H3.0.2, 4-G4.0.1, 4-G4.0.2, 4-C5.0.1)
Dig into Michigan’s mining heritage. Discover what it was like to work in the copper and iron mines of the Upper Peninsula. Try your hand at cookie mining. (GLCEs: 4-H3.0.3, 4-H3.0.5, 4-H3.0.8, 4-G4.0.1, 4-G4.0.2, 4-G5.0.1, 4-E1.0.1)
Thousands of Michigan citizens worked at home and abroad to help win World War II. Learn what they did and why Michigan was called “The Arsenal of Democracy.” (GLCEs: 4-H3.0.4, 4-H3.0.5, 4-C5.0.2, 4-C5.0.4)
Discover the story of Michigan’s tumultuous entrance into the Union. Learn how settlers traveled here and see tools, dishes and other objects that they brought with them. Explore our dispute with Ohio over the Toledo Strip, and view the state’s first Constitution as students receive a behind-the-scenes tour of the Archives of Michigan. (GLCEs: 3-H3.0.9, [...]
Students clean a rug and haul water as they discover what it was like to grow up on a farm in rural Michigan. Students compare their lives to the lives of late-19th-century children. (GLCEs: 1-H2.0.5, 1-H2.0.6, S.DS.02.01)
Work with a museum docent to create a tour that fits your curriculum plan. Possibilities include themes as well as time periods ranging from prehistoric Michigan to 1975.
From the fur trade to the 21st century, this program highlights African American inventors, businessmen, statesmen and ordinary working people who helped to shape our state and our nation. (GLCEs: 4-H3.0.7, 4-G4.0.1, 4-C2.0.2, 8-U4.2.2, 8-U5.1.2, 8-U5.1.5)
The general tour is a guided tour of the Michigan Historical Museum’s permanent exhibits. Groups receive a brief orientation to the museum before their tour. Plan approximately 90 minutes for the tour.
The general tour is a self-guided tour of the Michigan Historical Museum’s permanent exhibits. Groups receive a brief orientation to [...]
