Help your students experience history as they never have before with MOHAI's exciting Seattle history exhibit and education programs.

Essential Seattle: A city revealed, the future imagined
MOHAI has completely redesigned its K-12 educational programs to compliment this comprehensive exhibit

Martha Lindsey
Education Programs and Volunteer Coordinator
Phone: 206-324-1126 ext. 12
martha.lindsey@seattlehistory.org

Portable Museum and Teacher & Trunk
These seven versions of a “museum in your classroom” enhance the teaching of Washington State history, align with EALRs and with Washington State Social Studies Assessments.  Each collection contains artifacts, a slide show, documents, maps, audio and an extensive Teacher’s Manual with lesson plans and activities adapted to meet individual class needs. 
Book a Teacher & Trunk Program and a Museum Educator delivers your Portable Museum and teaches a one-hour, hands-on artifact exploration to start your two-week rental. Scholarships are available for low income schools.

Grades: K to 12
Loan period: 2 weeks
Fee for Portable Museum Only: $40
Fee for Teacher & Trunk: $80 and $20 for additional classes on the same day
Note: Teacher & Trunk fee includes 2 week rental of materials

Portable Museums are available for the following topics

• Native American People of Washington State
• Explorers in Washington State
• Fur Traders and Missionaries in Washington State
• The Settlers in Washington State
• 1870 - 1910: Years of Growth and Change
• 1910 – 1945: The War Years
• 1945 - 1990: The Recent Years

Go to the OSPI website for more information about the CBA's, EARL alignments and CBA bridging documents or email education@seattlehistory.org with questions.

Visual Resources
MOHAI's visual resource guides contain 20 or more slides, a script, background histories, photographs, activities, and more. Choose from the following topics.

• The Great Seattle Fire of 1889
• Early Recreation in Seattle
• Logging in the Puget Sound Region, 1864 - 1910
• Changing Scenes of Downtown Seattle
• Portraits of Seattle Civic Leaders, 1850 - 1928
• The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909
• History of Transportation in Seattle
• Women in Washington History
• Native Americans of Washington State
• Ships in the Pacific Northwest
• Riding the Rails: A Short History of Early Railroads Around Puget Sound, 1864-1910

Loan period: 2 weeks
Grades: 3 to 12
Fee: $15

Ho for the Klondike! Reader’s Theater
Bring history to life in your classroom! This fun and fascinating readers' theater script is drawn from newspaper accounts, advertisements, and personal letters of the hopeful miners who passed through Seattle on their way to Yukon gold. Simply read through the script as a class, or perform it in front of an audience. This outreach package includes a script, slides, and a guide for managing and staging it all.
Loan period:  8 weeks
Grades:  5 to 8
Price:  $50