Education Blog
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Find videos, activities and lesson plans to nurture curiosity and spark the discovery of history! This content can be used in the classroom or at home to keep students engaged and active. You can conveniently browse them by topic and/or grade level.
Ohio Village Virtual Field Trip is an interactive online experience that explores life during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Through this virtual field trip students help different Ohio Village characters achieve their mission. Characters in the experience represent people of different backgrounds and lived experiences of the time.
Learn more about the centennial of Women’s Suffrage and the role Ohio women played in securing women’s voting rights. Understand how women’s activism continues today.
Get a collection of primary sources and draw your own conclusions about the history of the Women’s Suffrage movement in Ohio and the United States.
In this guide you will find information, documents, images and photos that will help you better understand the Women’s Suffrage movement and the role Ohio women played in securing women’s voting rights.
Do you know about soapbox speeches? In this activity you will find more about this style of speech made popular during the Women’s Suffrage movement and learn how to write and deliver your soapbox speeches!
Check out Lucy Stone’s famous speech “Disappointment Is the Lot of Women”. Then learn how to analyze it using visual imagery and artwork.
You are now a museum curator! We will guide you as you create your own exhibit about an important figure in women’s history.
Take a look at these suffrage flyers, poster and political cartoons! We will show you how to create your own propaganda materials.
Have you ever considered how much we can learn from a political cartoon?
We will provide you with a great example and some guided questions that will make you an expert in the subject.
New resources and ideas are added monthly
Thirty middle schoolers are huddled in groups, passionately debating whether their new island nation should have a unicameral or bicameral legislature. One student jumps up—"But wait! If we only have one house, what happens when they all agree on something terrible?" Another counters, "That's why we need the judges to serve for life!" A third […]
Picture this: It's Monday morning. In Classroom 101, students mechanically complete worksheet problems about biology, occasionally glancing at the clock in boredom. In Classroom 102, those same math problems have been transformed into a quest to save an endangered species, complete with points, badges, and a compelling narrative. The content is identical, but the learning […]
Special thanks to our guest contributor Mason Farr at the National Veterans Memorial and Museum for bringing the expertise of NVMM to this month's blog. In 1999, the late-senator and U.S. Navy Veteran, John McCain, spearheaded legislation to establish May as National Military Appreciation Month. Since then, the entire month of May has become a […]
Special thanks to intern Jessie Tudor-Tangeman for writing this month's blog. Did you know that Ohio was once the home of the first female doctor in the United States? Or that Toledo, Ohio was the location for one of the first female African American owned pharmacies in the nation? Would it surprise you to know […]
Special thanks to our guest contributor Chris Moynihan at the Armstrong Air & Space Museum for writing this month's blog. At the Armstrong Air & Space Museum, the education staff embraces their roles as “informal” educators. Museums dedicated to the scientific history of America’s space program, such as the Armstrong Air & Space Museum, have […]
Special thanks to our guest contributor Kevin Lydy at the National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center (NAAMCC) for writing this blog. So I pay my tribute to you While you live to hear me say That I pride myself in knowing you, And in seeing you each day. While I see your smile and hear […]