Midway Village Museum – Rockford, IL- History Museum
April 30, May 1, 2 and 3, 2013
9:30 am – 2 pm each day
This award-winning educational event is specially designed to meet the curriculum standards for students in grades 5th through 8th. Midway Village Museum’s campus makes this an exceptional field trip destination with more than 25 historic buildings and from 40 to 50 different living history sites offered each day. Groups will visit the sites that they choose.
The program is open to public, private or home schools from northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. In 2012, approximately 5,000 students participated in this program, but space is limited and advance registration is required.
Examples of sites that students can visit:
- Meet famous people – President & Mrs. Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Clara Barton, General U. S. Grant and many others
- Experience being a soldier, including marching and drilling
- Learn how to operate Civil War era artillery
- Talk to soldiers from both the North and the South
- Learn about lady’s fashion of the 1860s
- Square dance in a barn hayloft
- Sing along to popular music of the times
- Visit the 1850s Barn to learn about the Underground Railroad
- Experience school lessons in a one room schoolhouse
- Learn about the art of blacksmithing
- Learn the early rules of base ball and how the sport became popular because of the war
- Meet lady spies for both the North and the South
- Learn about Civil War doctors and medicine
- Meet women soldiers
- Learn about Civil War era photography
- Show your knowledge of the times by playing Civil War Jeopardy
Cost is $7 per student and $1 per adult chaperone.
Download our reservation form for the Civil War Hands-on History Program in PDF format »
For registration information, contact Jessica MacDonald, Special Events Coordinator at 815 397-9112, ext. 104 or jessica.macdonald@midwayvillage.com.
For all the details and to register, check out the Midway Village’s website.
If you are unable to make this event, you might still be interested in some of the other opportunities for homeschoolers in particular to enjoy the museum.
