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Bring Your Class to BHS or the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Field Trips for K-12 Classes
College and Adult Tours
Download Exhibit-Related Lesson Plans
Field Trips for K-12 Classes
BHS is excited to announce a new school programs partnership with the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92. Bring your class to BHS, BLDG 92, or both!
Students learn to think like historians through hands-on investigation of Brooklyn’s material culture, art, and written documents—all of which form intriguing windows into the history of America. Place-based learning makes history accessible to learners of all kinds. You may be surprised how students come alive when they are immersed in history.
Exhibit tours are FREE at BHS and BLDG 92 for the 2011–2012 school year:
- Up to 30 students and 3 teachers/chaperones per tour
- 60- or 90-minute tours, depending on the program
- Call our Education Coordinator to book: 718.222.4111 ext. 228
NEW! Ingenious Inventions at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Grades 2–12
Duration: 90 minutes
Site: BLDG 92
Dates: Opening November, 2011
Be the first to tour the brand new Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92. Students explore centuries of history and technological innovation at one of the nation’s oldest and most fascinating Navy Yards. Students get a close-up look at one of the Yard’s historic dry docks, learn how it works, and create a flip book showing the process!
NEW! Inventing Brooklyn: People, Places, Progress
Grades K–12
Duration: 60 minutes
Site: Brooklyn Historical Society
Dates: Ongoing
How did Brooklyn become the extraordinary place we know today? The latest exhibit at Brooklyn Historical Society, Inventing Brooklyn, traces the borough’s diverse cultural influences over the years, from Native American roots and the Dutch colonial influx to the Brooklyn Bridge and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Our dynamic Inventing Brooklyn tours will align with your class’s interests and area of study, including: Colonial Brooklyn, The American Revolution, Slavery, Abolition, the Civil War, Brooklyn’s Communities: Then and Now, Brooklyn’s Urban Development
Home Base: Memories of the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field
Grades 4–12
Duration: 60 minutes
Site: Brooklyn Historical Society
Dates: Through April 2012
This fun exhibit features the history of Ebbets Field and its fans by digging into BHS’ rich Dodgers collection from baseball cards to the famous 1955 World Series banner.
In 2011–2012, BHS is pleased to offer free group tours for K-12 school groups thanks to generous funding from Barclays/Nets Community Alliance.
College Level and Adult Tours
Guided Tours are 60 minutes for up to 30 participants. Guided Tour fee: $150.
Self-Guided tours available Wednesday - Sunday (up to 30 participants). Self-Guided tour fee: $75
Download Exhibit-Related Lesson Plans
Click here for lesson plans related to past BHS exhibits.
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