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School Programs

We want our school programs to connect students to Geneva’s history through materials from our collections. Our programs are designed to reinforce elements of the curriculum, while allowing for hands-on and experiential learning. We hope to stimulate students’ interest in history, connect Geneva’s history to their classroom learning, and work with teachers to develop students’ critical thinking skills. 

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Cemetery Stories: Grade 2

On the Cemetery Stories field trip, students discover what cemeteries can tell them about the Geneva community and the people who have shaped it. Students in grades 2 and 5 examine cemetery art and find out what it reveals about the people of the past and use critical thinking skills to discover how some of Geneva’s early residents lived, died and remembered one another.
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Three children and an adult standing in a cemetery in front of a gravestone doing a rubbing of the inscription.

Cemetery Stories: Grade 5

On the Cemetery Stories field trip, students discover what cemeteries can tell them about the Geneva community and the people who have shaped it. Students in grades 2 and 5 examine cemetery art and find out what it reveals about the people of the past and use critical thinking skills to discover how some of Geneva’s early residents lived, died and remembered one another.
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A man stands with four children looking at a gravestone.

How Did We Get Here? Geography and Geneva

This two-part program focuses on how people in Geneva have altered the city’s environment over time. In an in-classroom session and subsequent walking tour of downtown Geneva, students use primary documents to learn how the city of Geneva came to be where it is and that people have altered the city’s streets and landscapes over time to meet their changing needs.
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Tinted engraving of a birdseye view of Geneva showing the harbor with steamboats, streets, houses, fields and trains. Includes insets of Hobart College and the Geneva Classical and Union School.

Taking Tea

Through hands-on experiences at Rose Hill Mansion and the Seneca Falls Historical Society Museum, students on the Taking Tea school field trip explore changes in cooking technology, women’s work, and the custom of “taking tea” between 1850 and 1890.
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A group of children watch two women in old-fashioned clothes help a girl use a butter churn in an old-fashioned kitchen.

Tales of Christmas Past

Students attending this field trip view the furnished rooms at the Prouty-Chew House, which will be decorated for Christmas. Students find out how the Prouty family celebrated Christmas in the late 1800s and see the kinds of toys the children received. Available for grades 1 to 3 and differentiated by grade level.
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A tour guide, teacher and group of young children in a Victorian hallway decorated for Christmas pointing at mistletoe.

For specific details about programs, contact Director of Education and Public Information, Anne Dealy at 315-789-5151 or educator@historicgeneva.org.