Education Programs

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

Field trips offered on-site at the museum for K-12 students. All field trips are designed around the Essential Seattle exhibit, showing how life in the Puget Sound region has changed through time.

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. There are several content themes to choose from.

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.

History Is _____: In-Class Film Program

A one-hour exploration of the ways in which film has been used to tell or create Seattle’s history, this program is a great companion to MOHAI's History Is ___ Film Competition and is FREE on a first-come, first-served basis. (Your educator will need access to a computer and projector to present this program.) Call 206-324-1126 ex. 59 to reserve your program.

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Lesson plans and activities can be done on their own as an introduction to local history and to working with historical documents and images, or to prepare your students for their museum visit.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