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Receive the benefits of the Museum of History all year long with our outreach services! Designed to provide high-quality learning experiences in your classroom, these materials and programs focus on North Carolina experiences and correspond to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
 Educational Media Center
Online Teacher Workshops
Tar Heel Junior Historian Association Clubs
Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine
Virtual Field Trips
Streaming Programs
Educational Media Center
We offer an outstanding collection of classroom materials through our media center. Order video programs or History-in-a-Box kits and then simply drop them back into the mail, or purchase an Educator Notebook to use every year. All resources provide classroom activities geared to meet the Standard Course of Study. We keep these programs very affordable, and many are free!
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Online Teacher Workshops
Go online for these interactive workshops on a variety of interesting topics, geared for educators to earn continuing education credits at home or anywhere with Web access. Available to public, private and home school educators, these professional development courses will boost your own knowledge and help you to prepare classroom activities. Workshops provide up to four CEU credits (40 contact hours) but may be tailored to the number of contact hours needed by the registrant, including regular, reading, and technology credits. These are a real bargain at $35 per class.
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Tar Heel Junior Historian Association Clubs
We invite you to form a club if you
- are affiliated with a public or private school or library
- operate a home school
- lead a youth group such as Boy or Girl Scouts or 4-H
Your club will receive free copies of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine and have the opportunity to take part in the THJHA annual convention and compete in statewide contests. Award-winning student projects are displayed in the museum for one year. As the group's adviser, you will receive a handbook, a teaching supplement accompanying each issue of the magazine, and a newsletter to keep you in the know. Take advantage of this free program!
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Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine
The Museum of History publishes this fun and fact-filled magazine twice annually on topics of North Carolina history and culture. Interesting articles and photographs illustrate important themes. Subscriptions are free to Tar Heel Junior Historian Association clubs. Library and private individual subscriptions are available for $8 per year. Back issues are available for $2 each.
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Virtual Field Trips
"Visit" the Museum of History through the newest cutting-edge technology—live two-way videoconferencing. Virtual field trips are interactive programs that allow students to see and touch reproduction artifacts as they explore a historical topic with a museum expert. All virtual field trips adhere to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. Pre- and post-program classroom activities are provided.
Virtual field trips can take place through video-over-IP or at North Carolina Information Highway (NCIH) video sites. Please see the NCIH video sites list for a site near you. If using video-over-IP, please call 919-807-7972 to arrange a site test.
Each program runs one hour. To schedule a virtual field trip, call 919-807-7972 or e-mail jerry.taylor@ncdcr.gov.
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Streaming Programs
We are pleased to now offer the several programs in an on-demand streaming video format for viewing at your convinience. The programs also include downloadable program materials that include activities and aid in exploring these topics in more depth. Registration is required for viewing these free programs.
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