In-School Workshops: BHS in the Classroom

Walking the Brooklyn Bridge

History Research Labs

History Speaks

Walking the Brooklyn Bridge                                 

Grades 2–5

Duration: 2 class sessions; 90 minutes in class and 2 hour walking tour

Site: Your classroom

In this two-part, extended outreach program, a BHS educator will visit your classroom to lead a hands-on study of primary source images from BHS’s collections.  These content-rich activities in the classroom will form a springboard for learning on a follow-up walk onto the Brooklyn Bridge. Together, the in-class workshop and walking tour explore the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and its impact on New York City. $300 includes ninety-minute in-class workshop and a separate two-hour walk onto the Brooklyn Bridge for up to thirty students.

Turn your Classroom into a History Research Lab

Grades K-12

Duration: 90 minutes

Site: Your classroom

BHS educators bring primary sources from our collections to your students and give them the tools to explore and uncover themes in U.S. History.  Starting at $100, all in-class lessons are ninety minutes and can accommodate up to thirty students.  Choose from our list of topics:

• COMING SOON! A History of Sports in Brooklyn
• COMING SOON! The Brooklyn Navy Yard
• African Americans and Abolitionism in Nineteenth Century Brooklyn
• Jobs in Brooklyn since 1900
• Urban and Industrial Change
• Oral History (learn more below).
• Transportation in Brooklyn
• Brooklyn Bridge

History Speaks: Using Oral History in the Classroom
Grades 4-11

Duration: 90 minutes

Site: Your classroom

What is oral history?  It is a historical method that uses recorded interviews to preserve firsthand memories, accounts and interpretations of a person’s life, an event, a place, way of life or time period. With oral history, historians collect and interpret this primary source, and students can too! Schedule a visit with BHS’s oral historian who will discuss the importance of creating this type of documentation and play excerpts from BHS’ audio archives.  Students will learn how citizens play a role in local and national events.

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