History Center Field Trips
Friday, May 16 2025
Enhanced field trip experience for school groups. Maximum of 500 students per day. Volunteers can assist with operations, hands-on activities, wayfinding, lunch duty, and setup/teardown of each day. Please wear your volunteer t-shirt, lanyard and comfortable shoes on the days you are here! You may pack a lunch and store it in the Outreach fridge.
9:15am - 1:30pm
Group Entry Operations
Assists with bus arrival, orientation and wayfinding; check on school lunch times and general logistical help.
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Lustron Home
Lustron volunteers will offer directions and rules to school groups before they enter the house. They will also interpret the space for students and manage the number of people inside of the home for the optimal experience for everyone.
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Hands-on Station: Nature of Ohio
Lead hands-on activities in regular volunteer gear in designated spaces throughout the museum floor. Nature of Ohio activities include the station "Amazing Arthropods!" which educates visitors about the amazing world of invertebrates.
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Hands-on Station: Follow The Flag
Lead hands-on activities in regular volunteer gear in designated spaces throughout the museum floor. Follow the flag will have a special scavenger hunt style activity. Students will be asked to look for "makers marks" on the flags to find their origins.
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Hands-on Station: IWOW
Lead hands-on activities in regular volunteer gear in designated spaces throughout the museum floor. In the Indigenous Wonders of Our World exhibit students can use a pump drill tool to make a necklace.
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Hands-on Station: Creative Ohio
Lead hands-on activities in regular volunteer gear in designated spaces throughout the museum floor. Creative Ohio is a space for letting out creativity! Volunteers could lead students through various hands-on crafts or other artistic expressions.
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Hands-on Station: Early Ohio Area
Lead hands-on activities in regular volunteer gear in designated spaces throughout the museum floor. The Early Ohio area in Gallery 1 offers an opportunity to talk about life in the 19th century. "Sheep to Shawl" gives students the chance to learn and try some of the methods to work wool into a useable material.
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Hands-on Stations: Early Ohio Area
Lead hands-on activities in regular volunteer gear in designated spaces throughout the museum floor. Volunteers can work the "Flatboat activity", which teaches students about some of the state's settlement history.
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Hands-on Stations: Boosted Experiences
The stations listed above will be prioritized during the spring season, if availability runs out and you are interested in volunteering for a hands-on station, we will have additional stations to be offered as a boosted experience!
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Pocket History
Interact with smaller groups in gallery spaces with single objects; encourage visitors to make connections through other exhibits/collections/ site systems. This position is mobile!
Contact the event organizers: Michael Fouts, Valerie Boyer
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