Historic Cherry Hill
Programs
Outreach Programs
Historic Cherry Hill offers a variety of outreach programs to the general public. The programs examine a broad range of topics that span the 18th to the 21st century. For a description of each program the museum offers to the general public, please click below.
Outreach Brochure
Off-Site Education Programs
History and science combine when investigating the Hudson River!
Hudson River Trading Game: Albany's Connection to the World
Cost: $5.00 per student; adults free
Length: Approximately 2.5 hours
Level: 4th and 5th grades
In partnership with the Albany Heritage Area Visitors Center.
Students will learn about the economy and ecology of the early Hudson River as they are introduced to local Albany merchants, are challenged to navigate sloops to market on a 34-foot Hudson River game board, and discover how elements of the natural environment influenced trade.
Debuts November 2010. To schedule call the Visitors Center at (518)434-0405
History takes on a whole new meaning when seen through the lens of a detective!
"The Cherry Hill Case" Outreach Program
Cost: $115 plus travel
Length: Approximately 1.5 hours
Level: 4th and 5th grades
In partnership with the Scotia-Glenville Children's Museum.
Students become detectives of history as they investigate documents, photographs, and objects to learn more about six people who lived at Cherry Hill in the mid-1800s. Students discover and discuss the household dynamics and conclude with a presentation of reader's theater.
To schedule call Scotia-Glenville Children's Museum at (518)346-1764
Questions? Call 434-4791 or email becky@historiccherryhill.org
Teaching Units
Students become historians in their own right, working with Historic Cherry Hill's document-based teaching units in their classroom. Using facsimiles from the museum's vast manuscript and photograph collection, the teaching units help children interpret primary sources and give them skills in answering Constructed Response and Document Based Questions on the Social Studies Assessment. Both teaching units have won awards from the American Association for State and Local History.
Different Voices, Different Truths: The 1827 Murder at Cherry Hill
(grades 7 and up) Click here for more information
Kittie Putman and the Cherry Hill Household: 1860-1884
(grade 4 and up) Click here for more information
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