Education Programs

Please note: information on this page covers Education programs for pre-K through 12th grade only. For more information about adult education programs, please check our calendar.

MOHAI's Education programs are designed to support learning needs of both students and teachers. We offer on-site museum field trips, in-class programs, online curriculum, and teacher trainings to promote quality history education.

Our Programs:

• Support teachers: EALR and CBA aligned, professional development opportunities
• Use primary sources: Focus on critical thinking
• Present history from multiple perspectives: Explore the diversity of our shared past
• Make history relevant: Create personal connections
• Create curriculum connections: Link literacy, science, art and math

Field Trips

MOHAI is no longer offering field trips at our Montlake location. New field trip programs are currently being developed for our new facility at South Lake Union, and will be available at the new museum beginning in early 2013. Please check back this fall for more information!

Summer Camp

This summer, MOHAI offers summer camp with Pacific Science Center from July 16th – July 20th. Taking inspiration from the 50th anniversary of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, students in grades 4 - 6 are invited to go “back to the future” to create a vision for the Seattle that has yet to come!

Early Learning

MOHAI’s offers our youngest visitors opportunities for hands-on fun, both inside and outside the museum’s walls. These programs are aimed at museum-goers aged 3 to 5.

Portable Museum Trunk & Kit Rentals

Bring MOHAI to your classroom! Rent one of our Portable Museum Trunks or Kits. Each is filled with photos, documents, and artifacts to supplement your area of study, with several content themes to choose from. Rentals will continue to be offered through July 31st, 2012.

In-Classroom Programs

MOHAI offers outreach programs for K-12. Sign up for a Teacher & Trunk Classroom Program and a MOHAI Educator will deliver a Portable Museum Trunk to your classroom and teach a one-hour, hands-on artifact exploration lesson to start your two-week trunk rental. Classroom programs will also continue to be offered through July 31st, 2012.

Professional Development for Teachers

MOHAI offers year-round professional development programs for K-12 teachers at the museum or your school. Credits or clock hours are available for most programs.

Lesson Plan and Activities

Lesson plans and activities can be done on their own as an introduction to local history and to working with historical documents and images, or to prepare your students for their museum visit.

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MOHAI's education programs are funded by the gracious donations of the following organizations:

In addition to the Fales Foundation Trust and the Norman Archibald Charitable Foundation.