What would you do for your freedom?
Imagine a world where escaping everything you have ever known was your only chance to truly live. Set just as the Fugitive Slave Act is passed, Students will meet a former slave named Carolina. Though the story of her life, students will have to figure out how she became free and the secret methods she uses to lead other slaves to their freedom. With the new act in place, Students will be challenged to design escape routes along the Underground Railroad!
Learning Standards: Broadcasted live from WMHO’s authentic historic and environmental Long Island properties, WMHO supports NY State and Common Core Standard learning by creating rich virtual environment where students study and observe artifacts, primary sources, and participate in an exchange of ideas.
Virtual Format: WMHO digital platform include (and are not limited to) Zoom, Google Classroom and MS Teams. Please let us know your digital preferences and we will work with you.
Cost: $160.00 for 45-60 minute live class & accompanying learning kit
Duration: 1 hr
Levels: Customized
Minimum Program Fee: $160
Location: From our classroom to yours!
Address:
Contact: 631-751-2244
Transport your students to birthplace of American espionage! Visit the Brewster House, home of Joseph Brewster – first cousin of Culper Spy ring member and whale boat captain, Caleb Brewster.
Using distance learning technology, students will perform a reader’s theater, learning about America’s colonial history to debate the American Revolution as Patriots and Loyalists; discover and foil a plot by Benedict Arnold, and use invisible ink and numeric codes to write messages!
Learning Standards: Broadcasting live from Long Island’s historic and environmental landmarks, WMHO supports NY State and Common Core Standard learning by creating rich virtual environment where students study and observe artifacts, primary sources, and participate in an exchange of ideas.
Virtual Format: WMHO digital platform include (and are not limited to) Zoom, Google Classroom and MS Teams. Please let us know your digital preferences and we will work with you.
Cost: $150.00 for 45-60 minute live class & accompanying learning kit
Duration: 1 hr
Levels: Customized
Minimum Program Fee: $150
Location: From Your Classroom to Our’s
Address:
Contact: 631-751-2244
Why are Long Island’s coastal habitats important? How do they compare to other types of ecosystems?
How does energy flow through an ecosystem? From the heart of an 88-acre Wetland Preserve and the Ernst Marine Conservation Center lab, this STEM program immerses students in the marine sciences. Participants encounter and study the amazing variety of unique animals and plants that are adapted to live in this tidal marsh environment and the ecosystem services each of the animals provides. This hands-on experience in the field brings to life the transfer of energy from the sun to consumers and decomposers, the interdependence of plants and animals, and how the moon gravitational pull on the earth creates tides.
Live from the heart of an 88-acre wetland preserve and the Ernst Marine Conservation Center lab, this STEM program will introduce participants to the marine science and ecology of coastal environments. Students will virtually encounter and study the amazing variety of unique animals and plants that have adapted to live in this tidal marsh environment and the ecosystem services each of the animals provides.
This experience brings to life the transfer of energy from the sun to consumers and decomposers, the interdependence of plants and animals, and how the moon’s gravitational pull on the earth creates tides. Presented by a marine scientists, students will be able to ask questions in real time.
Learning Standards: Broadcasting live from Long Island’s historic and environmental landmarks, WMHO supports NY State and Common Core Standard learning by creating rich virtual environment where students study and observe artifacts, primary sources, and participate in an exchange of ideas.
Virtual Format: WMHO digital platform include (and are not limited to) Zoom, Google Classroom and MS Teams. Please let us know your digital preferences and we will work with you.
Cost: $160.00 for 45-60 minute live class & accompanying learning kit
Duration: 1
Levels: Customized
Minimum Program Fee: $160
Location: The Ernst Marine Conservation Center from the comfort of your own home or classroom!
Address: Trustee’s Road, Stony Brook NY 11790
Contact: 631-751-2244
How did the Culper Spy Ring form and why was Long Island its birthplace?
This virtual program experience, live from the authentic Brewster House, promotes critical thinking, team work and dialogue. As a group, students will be challenged with converting inn keeper Rebecca Brewster to join the Culper Spy Ring. Like many colonists at the time, Rebecca has mixed feelings about whether to rebel against the Crown or to stay loyal. Can your students convince her? Putting their own skills to the test, students will undergo a full exploration of the Brewster House (c. 1665) in search of clues and secret messages!
Learning Standards: Broadcasted live from Long Island’s historic and environmental landmarks, WMHO supports NY State and Common Core Standard learning by creating rich virtual environment where students study and observe artifacts, primary sources, and participate in an exchange of ideas.
Virtual Format: WMHO digital platform include (and are not limited to) Zoom, Google Classroom and MS Teams. Please let us know your digital preferences and we will work with you.
Cost: $150.00 for 45-60 minute live class & accompanying learning kit
Duration: 1
Levels: Customized
Minimum Program Fee: $150
Teacher Fee: FREE
Location: The Brewster House from the comfort of your own home or classroom!
Address:
Contact: 631-751-2244
In this interactive video series, students will meet Rebecca Brewster whom will take them on a journey of her tavern during the American Revolution. Using an accompanying print out kit, students will complete a variety of activities, such as scavenger hunts, puzzles, critical thinking activities while using primary documents and codes.
Learning Standards: Broadcasting live from Long Island’s historic and environmental landmarks, WMHO supports NY State and Common Core Standard learning by creating rich virtual environment where students study and observe artifacts, primary sources, and participate in an exchange of ideas.
Cost: $125.00 for digital series and accompanying activity kit. Access up to 14 days. BOCES Arts-in-Education reimbursable.
Duration: 1
Levels: Customized
Minimum Program Fee: $125
Teacher Fee: FREE
Location: The Brewster House from the comfort of your own home or classroom!
Address:
Contact: 631-751-2244
Would you have survived a summer on Long Island’s West Meadow Creek as an Algonquin?
Based on WMHO’s historic archaeological dig in 1960 that unearthed evidence of a 5000-year-old encampment of an Algonquin peoples, students will be engaged in an interactive survival game! They will be challenged with surviving on West Meadow Creek in the Archaic period, using and also conserving the natural resources of the marsh to provide shelter, food and even medicine.
Learning Standards: Broadcasting live from WMHO’s authentic historic and environmental Long Island properties, WMHO supports NY State and Common Core Standard learning by creating rich virtual environment where students study and observe artifacts, primary sources, and participate in an exchange of ideas.
Virtual Format: WMHO digital platform include (and are not limited to) Zoom, Google Classroom and MS Teams. Please let us know your digital preferences and we will work with you.
Cost: $150.00 for 45-60 minute live class & accompanying learning kit
Duration: 1
Levels: Customized
Minimum Program Fee: $150
Location: West Meadow Creek from the comfort of your own home or classroom!
Address: For our classroom to yours!
Contact: 631-751-2244
What made someone a Doctor in the year 1776? How is medicine different today? And how will it change in the future?
Set during the American Revolution, students will enter the world of Samuel Thompson – doctor, farmer, patriot. By becoming Doctor Thompson’s apprentices, they help diagnose and treat his patients – Students even create a specialized treatment plan including medicinal herbs from Doctor Thompson’s medicinal garden – all while avoiding being captured by the British!
Students will meet a current healthcare professional and are empowered to diagnose a fictional 21st century patient, while learning the methods and technologies doctors and scientists use to diagnose and treat patients today.
Learning Standards: Broadcasting live from WMHO’s authentic historic and environmental Long Island properties, WMHO supports NY State and Common Core Standard learning by creating rich virtual environment where students study and observe artifacts, primary sources, and participate in an exchange of ideas.
Virtual Format: WMHO digital platform include (and are not limited to) Zoom, Google Classroom and MS Teams. Please let us know your digital preferences and we will work with you.
Cost: $150.00 for 45-60 minute live class & accompanying learning kit
Duration: 1
Levels: Customized
Minimum Program Fee: $150
Location: The Thompson House from the comfort of your home or classroom!
Address:
Contact: 631-751-2244
Experience a week in the life of the Thompson household. Based on authentic excerpts from Doctor Thompson’s diaries, students will experience primary documents come to life! Over the course of this 5 part video series, students will “meet” Doctor Samuel Thompson, and partake in interactive activities such as diagnosing diseases, making pills using mortars and pestles, and learning about the members of the Thompson household. Doctor Thompson looks back on his time in the American Revolution and discusses whether he too, was a spy!
Learning Standards: Broadcasting live from Long Island’s historic and environmental landmarks, WMHO supports NY State and Common Core Standard learning by creating rich virtual environment where students study and observe artifacts, primary sources, and participate in an exchange of ideas.
Cost: $125.00 for digital series and accompanying activity kit. Access up to 14 days. BOCES Arts-in-Education reimbursable.
Duration: 1
Levels: Customized
Minimum Program Fee: $125
Teacher Fee: FREE
Location: The Thompson House from the comfort of your home or classroom!
Address: 91 North Country Road, Setauket NY 11733
Contact: 631-751-2244
What does your freedom mean to you?
Students will compare and contrast the role of freedom and education among three black men in Early American Long Island: A black loyalist spy named Benjamin Whitecuff; a young slave named Simon Thompson, and James McCune Smith, the first African-American physician to hold a medical degree in the United States.
Learning Standards: Broadcasting live from Long Island’s historic and environmental landmarks, WMHO supports NY State and Common Core Standard learning by creating rich virtual environment where students study and observe artifacts, primary sources, and participate in an exchange of ideas.
Cost: $125.00 for digital series and accompanying activity kit. Access up to 14 days. BOCES Arts-in-Education reimbursable.
Duration: 1
Levels: Customized
Minimum Program Fee: $125
Teacher Fee: FREE
Location: From Your Classroom to Ours
Address:
Contact: 631-751-2244
Why is the Long Island Sound important for human and animals health?
In this STEM and conservation program, students explore the variety of animal and plant habitats that call Long Island Sound their home. Comparing and contrasting variables including water quality, turbidity and species across the Long Island Sound, participants discover the sheer range of the Long Island’s Sound biodiversity. Students learn that every animal and plant needs a home, and how humans can help make that possible.
Booking now for Spring 2021 45-60 minute program. Interested Long Island and Connecticut Schools should contact 631-751-2244 for more information.
Please contact the Education Department for more information about this program.
Duration: 1
Levels: Customized
Location: The Ernst Marine Conservation Center from the comfort of your own home or classroom!
Address: Trustee’s Road, Stony Brook NY 11790
Contact: 631-751-2244
