Join the History Center from your own classroom with one of our live virtual programs! All programs can be facilitated for your entire grade level at one time and allow for live interaction with History Center staff here at the museum.
Virtual History on the Go Workshops
History Center staff will join your class for a live virtual lesson and accompanying activities. The workshop bin will rotate among the classes in your grade level, and we’ll facilitate a scheduled live virtual lesson for each classroom. Program highlights include the integration of hands-on STEM challenges and the use of museum replicas, games, and art as mediums for teaching history.
Virtual History on the Go Workshops can serve one whole grade level with Florida State Standards. It includes:
• Box of activities, games, and replicas
• Live virtual lesson taught by History Center staff
• Pre-recorded, 30-minute guided tour of the History Center’s permanent exhibitions that can be incorporated into your social studies lesson before or after your Teach-In
• Easy-to-clean objects with instructions and materials for disinfecting between use in each classroom
Available themes:
- Florida’s Indigenous People (recommended for grades 2-4) – Learn about the culture and traditions of the Timucua and the Seminoles, as well as the impact of European colonization on Florida’s native peoples.
- Expedition Florida (recommended for grades 4 and 5) – Learn about the European explorers’ motives for gaining control of Florida and the hardships the pioneers later faced as they fought to survive on the Florida frontier.
- Florida’s Fight for Freedom (recommended for grades 4 and up) – Learn about Black leaders in Florida who played an important role in paving the road towards equality, as well as the history of Black communities in Florida from Fort Mose to Eatonville.
Cost for Virtual History on the Go Workshops is $150 per class.
Grant funding is available for eligible Orange County public schools on a first-come, first-served basis.
All workshop themes are also available in-person. For more information visit the Outreach Programs page.
Ocoee Election Day Massacre Virtual Workshop (grades 6-12)
The year 2020 marked the 100-year anniversary of the Ocoee Massacre, which remains the largest incident of voting-day violence in United States history. The Orange County Regional History Center’s previous special exhibition, Yesterday, This Was Home: The Ocoee Massacre of 1920, took a close look at this historical event and its lasting repercussions. The landmark exhibition explored not only this horrific time in our community’s past, but also historical and recent incidents of racism, hatred, and terror, some right here at home.
The content encourages a reflection on a century of social transformation, the power of perspective, and the importance of exercising the right to vote, and asks what lessons history can inspire moving forward.
To ensure that students continue to have an opportunity to gain a greater understanding of this historical event, even with the physical exhibition no longer on display, we are offering a virtual tour experience of the exhibition.
The Virtual Workshop includes:
- Pre-recorded tour of Yesterday, This Was Home: The Ocoee Massacre of 1920, led by the History Center’s Executive Director
- Live Q&A discussion after the virtual tour, led by History Center education staff
- Accompanying lesson unit that aligns with Florida State Standards
We recommend scheduling the virtual workshop over two days: one class session for the virtual tour, and one class session for the live discussion.
The live discussion can be facilitated through your school’s preferred virtual platform and can be experienced by multiple classes simultaneously depending on your scheduling needs.
Cost for the virtual field trip of Yesterday, This Was Home is $100 per class.
Grant funding is available for eligible Orange County public schools on a first-come, first-served basis.
To register for a virtual program, please click the link below.
If you have questions about booking your program, call the Education Department at 407-836-8556, or email Mary “Katie” Kelley.