• Bring a class to the Oberlin Heritage Center
• Request a classroom program
• Learn what academic content standards the Oberlin Heritage Center can address
  
• Read about field trip grants offered by Target
  
• Explore fun activities you can do with your students
  
• Contact the Resource Center for research help
• Check the Event Calendar for educator workshops and other events 
• Learn about the National History Day program

Activities for Your Class

Try these activities on your own or before or after your visit to the Oberlin Heritage Center.  Spark the creativity and imagination that makes history more memorable!

Write

• A short story about a child’s day in the past, or a student travelling back in time.
• A journal for a week or month about daily life, chores, family, and favorites.

Draw

• A picture of a children’s activity or chore from the past.
• A floor plan of your house and label how each room is used.
• A cartoon strip of a famous historic event.

Host

• A history show-and-tell for students to bring in artifacts from their families' past (with permission).

Read

• Sarah Margru Kinson: The Two Worlds of an Amistad Captive.
• Short stories from historic McGuffey Readers.

Visit

• A historical society, museum, or archaeological site. Compare and contrast the histories and stories of different people and places. 
• The local newspaper to see history-making in action.
• Local craftspeople.
• Westwood or another historic cemetery.
• The archives of a local library or college.

Photograph

• Buildings around town, students in the classroom, life today; make a slide show.

Listen

• To music from earlier eras.

Invite

• Historians, retired soldiers, scouts from yesteryear, storytellers, and cultural leaders to talk to the classroom about what life was like in the past or the history and culture of your community.

Prepare

• Simple historic snacks like dried apples, butter with crackers, or lemonade.

Reenact

• Scenes from famous historic events.

Create

• Photograph slide shows.
• History word puzzles.
• Community scavengers hunts.
• Simple historic games – like bean bag toss, graces, jackstraws.
• Time capsules for students, the class, or school.
• Silhouettes of each other.
• Tour maps of your favorite places.
• A mini local history museum in your classroom.

Explore

• Photographs, objects, music, and other museum resources online
  • Our Common Center of the Oberlin Heritage Center
  • American Memory of the Library of Congress.
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Life magazine photo archive

Record

• Oral histories of each other or of older family and community members – Favorite places, fun activities, jobs, what things cost, foods, travelling, etc.