Connect with the History Center at home! On this page, you will find resources and activities for families and adults for learning opportunities and fun. Keep checking back as new content will be added frequently.

Webinars & Videos

• Genealogy 101 Webinar (April 1, 2020)

• Genealogy Resources

• Dining from the Yesterdish Lunch & Learn on Facebook Live (April 3, 2020)

• Virtual Oral History Workshop (April 17, 2020)

• Dining from the Yesterdish Lunch & Learn – Pucker Up Edition (April 24, 2020)

• Photo Preservation Webinar (May 8, 2020)

• Central FL History 101: Recovery, Growth, and War  – 1900-1945 (May 15, 2020)

• Five Strange Central Florida Stories Webinar (May 22, 2020)

• Oral History Practice Webinar (May 29, 2020)

• Central Florida History 101: Spaceships, Land Booms, and a Mouse (June 5, 2020)

• Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall (June 11, 2020)

• The Stories They Could Tell: Curator’s Virtual Tour (June 12, 2020)

• Central Florida History 101: Tourist Destination, International Community, and Big City Problems from 1972 – to the present (June 26, 2020)

• The Vote Documentary Virtual Preview & Chat (July 1, 2020)

Virtual Exhibitions

• The Accidental Historian

• Love Speaks: Artistic Responses to the Pulse Nightclub Tragedy

• Orlando Health: 100 Years of Caring
  – Orlando Health: 100 Years of Caring Scavenger Hunt and Lesson Plan

• Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code

• Another Year Passes – Pulse Exhibit

History at Home Lessons

• Native American Lesson 1

• Native American Lesson 2

• Spanish Arrival Lesson 1

• Spanish Arrival Lesson 2

• Pioneer Lesson 1

• Pioneer Lesson 2

• Natural Environment Lesson 1

• Natural Environment Lesson 2

• Transportation 1

• Transportation 1 (Spanish)

• Transportation 2

• Transportation 2 (Spanish)

• Fast-Paced Florida 1

• Fast-Paced Florida 1 (Spanish)

• Fast-Paced Florida 2

• Fast-Paced Florida 2 (Spanish)

• Florida Tourism 1

• Florida Tourism 1 (Spanish)

• Florida Tourism 2

• Florida Tourism 2 (Spanish)

• Civil Rights Era Lesson 1

• Civil Rights Era Lesson 2

• NASA Lesson 1

• NASA Lesson 1 (Spanish)

• NASA Lesson 2

• NASA Lesson 2 (Spanish)

• Fascinating Floridians 1

• Fascinating Floridians 1 (Spanish)

• My Object’s Story

Coloring Pages

• 1892 Orange County Courthouse

• Mary McLeod Bethune

• Bunk Baxter, alligator wrestler

• Edith Royal, dance instructor

• Ponce Inlet Lighthouse

• Ponce de León statue

• Orange County Heritage Day

• Rogers-Kiene Building 

• Orange County Regional History Center

• Easter greetings – baby chicks 

• Woman with bunny ears

• Gemini astronauts

• Clay Springs Bathing Club

• St. Johns River Steamboat

• Dinky Line Railway

• Daytona Beach

• Nurses at Orange General Hospital

• Photographers

• John Young on the moon

• Karate lesson

• Central Florida Fair beauty queen