Museum Programs (K-12)

For more information about adult education programs, please check our calendar.

MOHAI's Education programs are designed to support learning needs of both students and teachers. We offer on-site museum field trips, outreach programs, online curriculum and teacher trainings to promote quality history education.

Our Programs:

• Support teachers: EALR and CBA aligned, professional development opportunities
• Use primary sources: Focus on critical thinking
• Present history from multiple perspectives: Explore the diversity of our shared past
• Make history relevant: Create personal connections
• Create curriculum connections: Link literacy, science, art and math

Museum Programs

Field trips offered on-site at the museum for K-12 students. All field trips are designed around the Essential Seattle exhibit, showing how life in the Puget Sound region has changed through time.

Outreach Programs

Bring MOHAI to you! Rent one of our Portable Museum Artifact Trunks to use on your own or have an educator come to the classroom. Choose from seven different themes.

Professional Development for Teachers

MOHAI offers year round professional development programs for K-12 teachers at the museum or your school. Credits or clock hours are available for most programs.

Getting to the Source: Primary Sources in the Classroom

January 9, 2010, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
April 17, 2010, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Documents, photographs and artifacts are important components in many classrooms. However, integrating them successfully can sometimes be a challenge. Join us for a back-to-basics session to look at ways to engage your students with primary resources. Give students the strategies they need to make observations independently, gather evidence and draw conclusions from historic materials. Clock hours available.

Summer Teachers' Institute

July 2010

Each year MOHAI conducts an intensive study of regional history which focuses on a different theme each day. With lectures by regional scholars, including MOHAI historian, Dr. Lorraine McConaghy, this content-driven program of Pacific Northwest history is designed to strengthen teachers' knowledge of our region's past and to support state standards. Credit and Clock Hours available.