Student Programs at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Who should come?
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The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is a great place to bring your students, whether you're focusing on civil rights, literature, or history, the Harriet Beecher Stowe House can provide your students with an educational and fun learning experience. We offer standards-based tours and outreach programs as well as multi-age programs for homeschooling families and co-ops.
All options have ties to Social Studies and ELA standards. For more information on your specific grade level, please contact Christina. For additional information or to schedule your class – please contact education@stowehousecincy.org. |
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Location
2950 Gilbert Avenue in Walnut Hills. Intersection of Gilbert Avenue and MLK. Right off highway 71 at exit 3.
Programs Offered
Elementary Green Book program
Focuses on local history and the Harriet Beecher Stowe House's own role as The Edgemont Inn, a site in the Green Book during the 20th century. We discuss segregation, changes in society, read Ruth and the Green Book by Alexander Ramsey Calvin, and highlight ways that we can help others.
3rd grade standards, at MUSEUM / SCHOOL outreach
Harriet's Connections to the Underground Railroad
Outline's Cincinnati's Underground Railroad history, demonstrates Harriet's experiences, and puts the Underground Railroad railroad activities into a larger context. Primary and secondary sources are utilized.
4th grade standards, at MUSEUM / SCHOOL outreach / ONLINE
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Changing Public Opinion
Helps students to discover information through primary and secondary sources, and emphasizes Harriet's role in media communication. Writing and critical thinking are key components of the activities.
8th grade, HS literature and/or history standards; at MUSEUM / SCHOOL outreach / ONLINE
19th Century Reformers through the Beecher Family Lens
Presents information on the Beecher family siblings and their social reform causes along with the Lane Rebels (1834 abolitionist debaters). Students play a role in this program by engaging with the ideals of reform movements, making connections between different causes, and formulating questions for further discussion.
APUSH and/or HS US history; at MUSEUM / SCHOOL outreach / ONLINE
High School Green Book program
Focuses on 20th century history and the solutions people used to navigate during the Jim Crow era. We focus on Cincinnati and its Green Book listed buildings, including the Harriet Beecher Stowe House (then known as the Edgemont Inn).
10th grade standards, at MUSEUM / SCHOOL outreach
Focuses on local history and the Harriet Beecher Stowe House's own role as The Edgemont Inn, a site in the Green Book during the 20th century. We discuss segregation, changes in society, read Ruth and the Green Book by Alexander Ramsey Calvin, and highlight ways that we can help others.
3rd grade standards, at MUSEUM / SCHOOL outreach
Harriet's Connections to the Underground Railroad
Outline's Cincinnati's Underground Railroad history, demonstrates Harriet's experiences, and puts the Underground Railroad railroad activities into a larger context. Primary and secondary sources are utilized.
4th grade standards, at MUSEUM / SCHOOL outreach / ONLINE
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Changing Public Opinion
Helps students to discover information through primary and secondary sources, and emphasizes Harriet's role in media communication. Writing and critical thinking are key components of the activities.
8th grade, HS literature and/or history standards; at MUSEUM / SCHOOL outreach / ONLINE
19th Century Reformers through the Beecher Family Lens
Presents information on the Beecher family siblings and their social reform causes along with the Lane Rebels (1834 abolitionist debaters). Students play a role in this program by engaging with the ideals of reform movements, making connections between different causes, and formulating questions for further discussion.
APUSH and/or HS US history; at MUSEUM / SCHOOL outreach / ONLINE
High School Green Book program
Focuses on 20th century history and the solutions people used to navigate during the Jim Crow era. We focus on Cincinnati and its Green Book listed buildings, including the Harriet Beecher Stowe House (then known as the Edgemont Inn).
10th grade standards, at MUSEUM / SCHOOL outreach
Specialty Tours
Black History - Focuses on Cincinnati history, including Abolitionist Era, Green Book Era, and other topics related to Civil Rights. Some components may include brief walk in our surrounding blocks and outside on our grounds.
Hard Hat Restoration - Focuses on the Restoration project, investigation, architecture, forensic evidence, ideas of historic preservation, and change over time. Students will need to navigate stairs and closely follow directions. Small groups only. Subject to availability during interior work phase.
Hard Hat Restoration - Focuses on the Restoration project, investigation, architecture, forensic evidence, ideas of historic preservation, and change over time. Students will need to navigate stairs and closely follow directions. Small groups only. Subject to availability during interior work phase.
Pricing
Programs at museum:
School outreach program:
Online programs:
Scholarships:
Schools can apply for field trip scholarships in order to make the experience accessible to all students.
- $7/student
- 1 teacher or chaperone included for every 10 students
- Additional adults $8/admission
School outreach program:
- $80 1st class (50-120 minutes depending on your bell schedule)
- $65 for each additional class, same day
Online programs:
- $65 for 1 class period
- Live Q&A with Stowe House presenter. Includes some pre-recorded segments.
Scholarships:
Schools can apply for field trip scholarships in order to make the experience accessible to all students.
How do virtual field trips work?
- Teachers will get a link to a 10-minute video with educational commentary by Harriet Beecher Stowe House Executive Director, Christina Hartlieb. Videos have been professionally produced using the rooms and exhibit spaces within the historic site.
- Teachers will have the students watch the video and generate questions. Those questions can be forwarded to our staff. Christina or another HBS House associate will then join your class virtually. This can work whether your class is meeting all together in a school setting or if students are working remotely. Teachers set up the meeting using their own school’s virtual platform.
- Our staff will join your class live for half an hour – letting students ask questions real time. We can use the written questions to refer to if there is a lull in the active question session.
Walnut Hills HS AP US History class conducting a debate of 19th Century reformers - in Lyman Beecher's house.
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Multi-age group of homeschooled students.
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Educator Resources
Access our Educator Resource Guide to get started with Essays, Activities, and Lesson Plans regarding Harriet Beecher Stowe and her influence on public opinion. Additional files link to primary source analysis sheets for use with the activities.
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Activities for Students and Families
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How did the Beecher Family keep in touch before Video Chats? Description and Activity instructions.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was important in influencing public opinion about slavery. Read and react to passages from the novel.
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The Ohio History Connection's women's suffrage exhibit got quartantined at the House. Here's 3 short videos and thinking questions that tie the exhibit to Harriet.
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