Educator Resources

We offer many ideas for teachers and scout leaders to choose from.  Please see the Port Huron Museum Education Guide below for details of our interactive programs, exhibits, events and tours for an exciting experience.  We have attached the GLECs for your convenience.  To schedule your tour, please email avarty@phmuseum.org or call Anita Varty at 810-982-0891 ext 118.  We look forward to seeing you at one of the Port Huron Museums.  Click here for a detailed Education Guide.

Education Programs​: Toy Tech February 4 - April 29, 2012

• Get Down with Gravity
  Can you make a pencil stand on its tip? Parachute a toy soldier to the ground? Fly a hot air balloon? Discover the power of gravity with these hands on activities using toys to learn about science!
   
• What’s the Matter?
  Water turns to ice when frozen and evaporates when heated. We will explore these changes in matter from a solid to liquid to gas. The class flows into an experiment when we make “Mystery Mud,” a magnetic liquid that turns to a solid without a change in temperature.

Interactive History Programs: at the Kammer Cabin or the Classroom, Carnegie Center

• Log Cabin Pioneer Days...

In this 1850's authentic German Log home, students learn what life was like for Michigan's pioneers.  They make soup over an open fire, bake cornbread and churn butter, dip candles, create a tin-punch craft, and make journal entries with a feather pen.  If time allows, a short tour of the Carnegie Center can be arranged to compete your day at the cabin.  Come dressed to impress in period clothing (if you would like).

• Pioneer Days in the Classroom...

All the fun of the Log Cabin home brought to  your classroom.  Students explore what life was like for Michigan's pioneers by dipping candles, creating a tin-punch craft, playing pioneer games, and journaling with a feather pen.  Students will also make a tasty treat by hand-rolling ice cream.

• Michigan Heritage Days in the Classroom...

Students explore Michigan's heritage with hands-on-projects about local industries.  They will participate in an assembly-line to produce a model car constructed out of macaroni, make paper from pulp, practice the method settlers used for rope-making, experience a Trading Post and design log marks from logging camps.

• REGISTRATION:

Pioneer Days and Michigan Heritage Days run a total of 4 hours, 9:30 - 1:30, which includes an hour for lunch.  This is a very popular program and fills up fast, so we recommend that you register as early as possible.  Please contact (810) 982-0891 ext. 118 to schedule a date and to get the current cost of this program.  Cost is $8 per student.

Additional opportunities:  Birthday parties click here and for Scout Programs click here

Traveling Suitcases or Historical Holidays click here
 

Science Programs:  at the Wizards Workshop in the Baggage car at Thomas Edison Depot Museum

• Communication... 

Travel through time to learn about the different ways people use to communicate from the printing press to computers.  Create a paper on an authentic Galley Proof Press, send messages to your classmates on a telegraph, and learn the art of semaphore.  Create a timeline of inventions that have helped us receive news and entertain us.  This 2 hour program is sure to help you appreciate our current changes taking place in electronic media and communications.

• Electricity...

Discover the mystery behind electricity as you create your own simple circuit.  You'll be shocked at what you can learn about static electricity and current electricity.  enjoy a hair rising demonstration and try your hand at turning on a light bulb demonstration and try your hand at turning on a light bulb with only a battery and a wire.

• Energy...

Energy is essential part of our daily life.  During this 2 hour Energy program learn how much energy an average family uses in a day, a week, a month, and a year.  Measure and compare the energy consumption in everyday appliances such as vacuums, fans and radios from the past and today.  Learn about ways to cut back our energy by using alternative energy including wind, sun, water and geothermal.

• Magnetism...

Investigate the mysterious world of magnets by learning the basic properties of magnetism.  Through research and experiment, explore what materials are attracted to magnets, concepts of attraction and repulsion, and learn about magnetic fields.  During this 2 hours program students will discover the "hidden attraction" of science and learning!