- INTERACTIVE VIDEO CONFERENCING
- Content Resources--History
You may be surprised to see Art and Science Museums listed here, but they also have programs that are focused on history
History Museums
Civil War Related
World War II Related
Special Focus
History Museums
Albany Institute of History and Art--Gds—3-8. Length—60 min, Fee--$125. Some titles: The Serious and the Smirk, Ancient Egypt: Art and Culture; Struggle for the Vote: New York Women.
Amon Cater Museum--Gds--2-12, Length—60 min, Fee--$100.. Some Titles: Metaphorically Seeing--It's All About Me; A View of Black History; Art of the American West.
Buffalo Museum of Science--Gds—K-6. Length—60 min, Fee--$125-$150.- (pdf file--see p. 11) Titles include: The World of Mini-Beasts: Investigating Insects; Growing up in Ancient Egypt; Rock Riddles and Mineral Mysteries.
Calvert Marine Museum—Gds--?. Length--?, Fee--?. Titles include: Fossils: Our Clues to the Prehistoric Past, Estuary: Life on the Edge, Captain John Smith Discovers the Treasures of the Chesapeake-Mapping the Bay.
Cincinnati Art Museum--Gds—K-12. Length—60 min, Fee--$100. Some titles: Discovering the Story: A City and its Culture: The Underground Railroad; Tons of Traditions; Animals in Art.
Discovery Center of Springfield—Gds—K-12. Length--?, Fee--. $150. Titles include: Africa's Lake Chad Region. Chemistry Capers, Magnifico Mexico, Native American Use of the Bison, Peruse Peru; Animal Awareness; the Gene Scene.
EarlyWorks Museum--Gds—3-12. Length—40 min, Fee--$125. Titles include: Historic Trades: Meet the Herbalist; Civil War Medicine; History Mysery: Ghost Stories.
Grace Museum--Gds—K-12. Length--?, Fee--$75. Titles include: Art Teacher for the Day; Cultural Heritage Through Art; Journey to the Past.
Indianapolis Museum of Art--Gds—K-12. Length-?-, Fee-- $95 ($120 for customized). Some titles: Civil War Sampler, Dragon Lore, Dream Big: Art and Dr. MLK's Vision, Eye Wonder: The Art of Science, Royal Riddle in African Art.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art–-Gds—K-12. Length—45-60 min, Fee--$100. Titles include: Learning to Look at Paintings: Portraiture, Exploring Still Life, American History Through Art.
Milwaukee Public Museum–Gds—K-12. Length—45-60 min, Fee--$95. Chat with Museum Expert—FREE. Some Titles: American Indians in a Changing World, Endangered Species: On the Verge, Dinosaurs: Unearthing the Facts.
North Carolina Museum of History--Gds—K-12. Length—60 min, Fee--free for NC Schools. Titles include: Behind the Scenes, Moccasins to Motorcars, History Mystery.
RoundTrips—Gds--?, Length--?, Fee--? Programs in the areas of Social Sciences, Math, Language Arts, Fine Arts, History, Science.
Royal Alberta Museum—PGds—Pre-K-12. Length--?, Fee--? The Museum began video conferencing September, 2008, and has not posted a great deal of information. Other programs offered include: Numbers in Your Neighborhood, Mysteries in Stone, Respecting Biodiversity, Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture.
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Civil War Related
Fort Mifflin on the Delaware—Gds—K-12. Length--?, Fee-- $150. Titles include: A Soldier’s Story: Revolutionary War Soldier Life, A Soldier’s Story: Civil War Soldier Life. Blood, Sweat & Tears Civil War Medicine.
Griot Drum, Inc.-- Gds—PreK-12. Length--?, Fee--$150-200. Some titles: George DeBaptiste--Underground Railroad Conductor; Private George Washington--28TH Regiment, United States Colored Troops; Anything but Civil.
President Benjamin Harrison Home -- Gds—3-8. Length--?, Fee--? Titles include: Hail to the Chief; "Is the United States a Democracy?" The Everyday Life of a Civil War Soldier.
Storyteller's Drum, Inc.—Gds—K-12. Length—40 min, Fee--$50. Some titles: Comparison/Contrast between Reptiles & Amphibians; Your Place or Mine; Let's Go Froggin'.
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World War II Related
Battleship Arizona Memorial Museum--Gds—6-12. Length--?, Fee--Free. Free. Some titles: Pearl Harbor Survivor Series, Curator Series.
Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial--Gds—5-12. Length—40 min, Fee--$125. Some titles: WWII-War in the Pacific; Buoyancy and Battleships--How Boats Float; What Good is a Parabola, Anyway? See additional offerings.
Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms—Gds--?. Length—45 min, Fee--? Gds-? Titles include: Artifacts, A Case for Evacuation, Leadership, The Great Abdication Debate 1936.
Holocaust Memorial and Education Center of Nassau County.—Gds--?. Length—55 min, Fee--$125. Provides the unique opportunity to meet and interact with a Holocaust survivor.
National WWII Museum Podcasts --Gds—9-12. Length--?, Fee--? Titles include: Motor Pool, Archbishop Hannan's National WWII Museum Oral History, Jig Dog Rampage.
National WWII Museum Video Conferences --Gds--?. Length—60 min, Fee--$100. Titles include: D-Day: The Turning Point of the War in Europe, Iwo Jima and the War in the Pacific, America Goes to War: The Home Front during WWII, Double Victory: African Americans in WWII.
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Special Focus
Atlanta History Center—Gds--?. Length—60 min, Fee--$150. Set programs by day and time, but live and interactive. Titles include: Who Was Here First? The Creek and the Cherokee, The Gullah People: A Coastal Community, Reporting the War: A Journalists' View of World War II.
Baseball Hall of Fame--Gds—3-12. Length--?, Fee--$125. Thematic Units include: Mathematics, Women's History, Leadership, Character Education, Science, Geography.
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum—Gds—4-7. Length—60 min, Fee--? Sessions are pre-scheduled. Some titles include: Tools Through Time, Come and Take It!, Cuentos Celebration!
Conner Prairie Museum--Gds—K-12. Length--?, Fee--$130. Some titles: 1886 Liberty Corner School, Follow the North Star, Sheep to Blanket, Woodland Indians: Art and Culture.
George Eastman House--Gds—6-12. Length—45-50, Fee--$120. Some titles: Lewis Hine: Images of Ellis Island; Lewis Hine: Images of Child Labor.
Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana—Gds—3-12. Length--?, Fee--?. Scheduled through CILC. Titles include: Indiana Architectural Styles from 1800-1900, Historic Places and the Stories They Tell.
Historical Cold Spring Village—Gds—K-12. Length--?, Fee--? Titles include: A Child’s School Day in the 1800s, A Father’s/Mother’s Day in the 1800s, From Horses to Horsepower.
Indiana Historical Society--Gds—4-12. Length—45 min, Fee--$100. Titles: Building an American Icon: The Creation of the Lincoln Legend; The Real Stuff Distance Learning.
Mariners' Museum--Gds--?-12. Length--?, Fee--$75. Some titles include: 144 Days at Sea, Clash of Armor: The Battle of the Monitor and the Virginia, Riding in a Log Canoe, Titanic: Fortune and Fate.
Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts—Gds--?. Length--?, Fee--$75. Titles include: Victorian Christmas, Victorian Homes and Interiors, School Days in the Victorian Era, How the Other Half Lived.
National Archives, United Kingdom—Gds—2-12. Length—35-60 min, Fee--Free. Titles include: Art and History: Royal and personal seals, The Great Fire of London, Tudor imagery and Henry VIII, All pals together: A First World War soldier's story.
National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame --Gds—3-7. Length—45 min, Fee--? Some titles: Thanks to Molly Goodnight, the Buffalo Still Roam; How to Measure a Horse; How to Read Cattle Brands.
New Your State Historical Association—Gds—K-12. Length--?, Fee--? Titles include: The Peppermint King and the Erie Canal, Meanings of the Mask, Seek and Sketch.
Ohio Historical Society--Gds—K-12. Length—45 min, Fee--$125. Some titles: The Bothersome Women; Ask the Expert; The Debate Over Statehood.
Pennsbury Manor--Gds—K-12. Length—30-60 min, Fee--$75. Some titles: A Tour of Pennsbury Manor; The Voyage of the Submission; Slavery in Pennsylvania: The Request.
Red Vista Ranch--Gds—K-12. Length--?, Fee--? Titles include: Art and Architecture - The Hopi Way; Corn is Life - The Hopi Perspective.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum--Gds—4-12. Length—45-60 min, Fee--? Titles include: Ambassador to the Orchestra: The Arranger in Rock and Roll, Inductee Spotlight: Frank Zappa, Great Moments in Rock and Roll: Popular Music Through the Decades, Hip-Hop Technology: From Turntables to Computers, Rock and Roll Reactions: Records, Radios and the Birth of Teenage Culture in 1950s America, Ball of Confusion: Rock Music and Social Change in the 60s and 70s. Download the brochure for more information.
Sheffield Museum of Rural Life—Gds—1-5. Length—60-75 min, Fee--$90. (Canadian) Titles include: Traditional Canadian Music and Dance, Meet The Pioneer Farmer, Meet The Medieval Peasant.
Southwestern Ohio Instructional Technology Association (SOITA)—Gds—1-12. Length—1-2 hrs, Fee--?. Prescheduled sessions. Titles include: When a Loser Won the White House, Kids Rock! A Look at Rocks and Minerals, Laugh Your Head Off with Idioms, Study Smarter with Your iPod and iTunes.
Stark County Park District—Gds—3-5. Length--?, Fee--$75. Titles: Animal Classification, Habitats and Adaptations, Ohio & Erie Canal History.
University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio—Gds—2-12. Length—45-60 min, Fee--$150. Titles include: Heroes of the Alamo, Native Americans, Worldwide Folktales.
Ward Melville Heritage Organization—Gds--?, Length--?, Fee--? Titles include: Electronic Explorations: The Salt Marsh Ecosystem, Running Scared, Running Free: Escape to the Promise Land, Windows Through Time: Journals of American Revolutionary War Spies!
Western Reserve Historical Society—Gds—3-11. Length—40-50 min, Fee--$110. Download the pdf brochure, p. 5.) Titles include: Free Speech on Trial, Trading Life Styles: American Indians & early Settlers, drawing to Scale: Recreating an 1825 Lighthouse.
Zoar Community Association—Gds--?. Length—45 min, Fee--$100. Letters to the Old World: coming to America, the early years in the village, dairy production of cheese and butter, etc.
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