Bring Your Class to BHS or the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Field Trips for K-12 Classes

College and Adult Tours

Field Trip! K-12 Museum-based programs at BHS and BLDG 92

BHS is excited to continue our school programs partnership with the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92. Bring your class to BHS, BLDG 92, or both!

Through BHS education programs, students learn to think like historians through hands-on investigation of Brooklyn’s material culture, art, and written documents—all of which form intriguing windows into the history of America. Place-based learning makes history accessible to learners of all kinds.  You may be surprised how students come alive when they are immersed in history.

Exhibit tours are FREE at BHS and BLDG 92 for the 2012-2013 school year.

• Up to 30 students and 3 teachers/chaperones per tour
• 60- or 90-minute tours, depending on the program
• Call our Education Assistant to book: 718.222.4111 ext. 241

Choose from the tour offerings listed below:

Inventing Brooklyn: People, Places, Progress                           

Grades: K–12

Duration: 60 minutes

Site: Brooklyn Historical Society

How did Brooklyn become the extraordinary place we know today? The Inventing Brooklyn exhibit traces the borough's diverse cultural influences, from its Native American roots and the Dutch colonial influx to the impact of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Our Inventing Brooklyn tours will highlight your class’s interests and area of study, with themes including:

• Colonial Brooklyn
• The American Revolution
• Slavery, Abolition, and the Civil War
• Brooklyn’s Communities: Then and Now
• Brooklyn’s Urban Development

Ingenious Inventions at the Brooklyn Navy Yard  

Grades 2-5

Duration: 90 minutes

Site: BLDG 92

The Ingenious Inventions tour explores centuries of technological innovation at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Through the lens of the Yard's accomplishments – from pioneering iron and steam shipbuilding, to advancing radio technology and developing medical anesthetics at the Naval Hospital – students will examine the role of innovation through the Yard’s history. With an emphasis on hands-on learning, this tour includes a visit to one of the Yard's historic dry docks.

NEW! These are the People of Your Navy Yard

Grades 6-12

Duration: 90 minutes

Site: BLDG 92

This tour delves into U.S. social history through the stories of people who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II and the voices of those who work there today. During the tour, students will examine documents and photographs and listen to oral histories, exploring the ways individual experiences contribute to larger currents in U.S. social history, including gendered spheres, racial segregation, labor activism, and urban development.

NEW! Say Cheese! From Portraits to Pics

Grades: 4 - 12

Duration: 60 minutes

Site: Brooklyn Historical Society

Drawing on BHS's extensive photography collection, our newest exhibit, Say Cheese! Portraits to Pics explores more than 150 years of photographic portraiture, from the earliest daguerreotypes to today's digital snapshots. During the tour, students will consider the way changing technology has impacted the ways people document their everyday moments, family milestones and special events.

In 2012-2013, BHS and BLDG 92 are pleased to offer free group tours for schools thanks to generous funding from Barclays/Nets Community Alliance.

Click here to download exhibit-related lesson plans,digital curricula, and supporting materials for your tour experience.
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College Level and Adult Tours

• Brooklyn Heights from George Washington to Jackie Robinson
  In a two-hour walking tour of BHS’s historic neighborhood, you’ll learn how Brooklyn Heights was transformed from farmland into a robust urban environment that has contributed to the city’s architecture, culture, commerce, and industry. $300 for two hours with up to twenty participants.
   
  

• Guided tours of Brooklyn Historical Society: $150 for a one-hour tour for up to 30 participants.
  
  
• Self-guided tours of Brooklyn Historical Society: $75 for up to 30 guests (only available during open hours, Weds – Fri 12:00p.m. – 5:00p.m., Sat. 10:00a.m. – 5:00p.m.)
  
  
• For college and adult tours at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92, please contact the BLDG 92 Visitor Services Manager at 718.907.5932.

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