Curriculum Guides

Guides offer you resources to use in the classroom to enhance your tour experience.  Learn about object based observation, how to integrate content standards and give the students a well rounded museum experience. 

4 Greystone

4 The Valley Experience

4 The Story of My House

4 On Air: 80 Years of Commercial Broadcasting

4 Broadcasting Jeopardy

Teacher Resource Kits

Enhance your classroom curriculum by borrowing our free, interdisciplinary learning kits! All kits come with an instructional teacher’s guide and include lesson plans, photos, document reproductions, artifacts, games, maps, worksheets, research projects and more! Each kit is historically accurate and incorporates curriculum and content standards with local history themes to help your students meet testing needs.

4Immigration

4Timelines

4An Old-Fashioned School Day

4Warm as Wool

41810 Journey to Ohio

4Hispanic Awareness

4African-American Suitcase

4People of India Suitcase

4Irish-American Suitcase

Primary Documents

The Mahoning Valley Historical Society is a wonderful resource for teachers hoping to enrich learning by adding primary documents.  The MVHS Archival Library is full of primary documents that teachers can use across the curriculum while fostering learning in history.

4Get ideas with this list of themes!

What do you Know Articles

These informative articles were a series from The Vindicator's Newspapers in Education program.  PDF versions will be available soon. 

 4Articles & images

Teacher In-Services

Join the Arms Family Museum of Local History in a practical professional development opportunity. Learn how to use the museum as a resource for teaching in the classroom. Group sessions include a presentation on the museum’s educational resources, a period room and gallery tour and optional light refreshments.  Cost: $5 per teacher

Call 330-743-2589 for further details and scheduling.

Become a Member!

A reduced rate of $25 is

available for educators.

Benefits include:

• One free field trip per year

• Free admission to the     Archival Llibrary

• Priority scheduling of learning kits and suitcase presentations

• Plus all the benefits of being a Historical Society  member!

Or print and send an application form:

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MVHS Teacher E-News

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