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Baltimore Museum of Industry

Educational Programs2012 – 2013

How to use this brochure: Review the descriptions of each program. Cost, maximum session size, grade level and program length are listed below each program. Select the programs you would like to schedule. Most groups schedule two or three programs for their visit. If you have a group larger than the session limit for the programs in which you are interested and you schedule multiple programs, your group can be split amongst those programs to �t under the limits. Each subgroup will rotate through each program.

Reservations: All programs are booked on a �rst come, �rst served basis. Since the activity schedule �lls quickly, we recommend that you book your program(s) at least two months in advance of your desired trip date. A deposit is required to hold your date. Completion of a reservation form does not constitute a con�rmation of your trip. Trips are con�rmed upon your receipt of our invoice. Programs are booked through the Public Programs Coordinator at 410.727.4808 x117 or tours@thebmi.org.

Payment: Deposits are due two weeks after the �rst invoice has been received and will be applied to your balance. �e balance is due the day of your scheduled activities. Deposits are non-refundable if you cancel two months or less before your scheduled trip. Please contact the Public Programs Coordinator no later than seven business days prior to your trip with the �nal numbers of teachers, chaperones and students. You will be charged for these numbers as a minimum, plus any extra students or chaperones added after this date.

Teachers & Chaperones: All teachers receive free admission with a school group. Each parent/chaperone is $8. Please indicate the number of teachers and chaperones you plan to bring when booking your visit.

Lunch on the Job: Back in the day, industrial laborers ate their lunches from pails right on the job. Your group is welcome to enjoy its own bag lunches at the museum, just like Baltimore’s working men and women used to do! Spend part of your lunch period exploring artifacts in the museum's Lunch Room exhibit and Decker Gallery.

Buses & Parking: We o�er free parking! Buses must pick up and drop o� students at the museum’s main entrance. All scheduled groups have access to our parking lot. Please wait for instructions on where to park upon your arrival.

Gift Shop: Please plan extra time to visit our newly expanded gift shop. If you don’t have time to visit the shop, you may pay as a group in advance for pre-counted items, such as pencils and rulers, for each student. Please ask about advance sales when scheduling your visit.

Outreaches: Some programs can also be scheduled to come to your school. Outreach programs may have a di�erent price per student and a mileage surcharge will be added.

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TRIP PLANNING

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TRIP PLANNING

History Alive Tour · Experience Baltimore’s industrial past through interactive tours of the museum. Tours can include a belt-driven machine shop, a blacksmith’s shop, an oyster cannery, a print shop and a garment loft. Students learn about industries that were important to Baltimore in days past. Tours engage participants in discussions and demonstrations of working museum artifacts. Topic areas include technology and innovation, immigration, labor issues and Baltimore City history. Cost: $3.50/student Grades: 2nd and upLength: 1 hour

In the Neighborhood · When our young visitors participate in this program, the Baltimore Museum of Industry is transformed into an early 20th-century Balti-more neighborhood. Children become workers of the past as they take an interactive tour through six galleries. �ey are given di�erent duties and paid with tokens. �e program ends with children depositing their earnings and receiving a bank statement to take home.Cost: $5/student. Max 15 students per session. Grades: K – 2ndLength: 1 hour

City Builders · What did Baltimore look like in 1896? Using a giant map of the museum’s neighborhood, students help build old Baltimore. �ey learn where workers lived and shopped and how they got to work each day. Students will construct a neigh-borhood by creating and coloring paper models of houses, trains and shops that they can take home. �is program works well as a companion to In the Neighborhood. It is also a good alternative for groups that may have di�culty moving through the museum. �is program is also available as a classroom outreach activity.Cost: $5/student. Max 15 students per session. Outreach: $7/student.*Grades: K – 2ndLength: 1 hour

Kids’ MotorWorks · Learn how Henry Ford revolutionized car-making by intro-ducing the assembly line into the automotive industry. Each student takes a seat along the line and performs a single job, as the group works together to build replicas of a 1914 moving van housed in the museum. Students experience how an assembly line works and discover that each task is equally important in creating a �nished product. Each worker takes home his or her very own truck. �is program is also available as a classroom outreach activity.Cost: $6/student. Max 48 students per session. Outreach: $8/student.* Grades: 2nd – 8thLength: 1 hour

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· Book In the Neighborhood & City Builders together for a cost of just $8 per student. ·

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Kids’ Cannery · As workers in Mr. Platt’s 1883 oyster cannery, students become managers, foremen, can makers, printers, labelers, shuckers and �llers. �ey learn about the training and wages of skilled and unskilled workers. Students are paid for their work in brass tokens that they redeem in the company store, where they quickly grasp the value of a day’s work. All students take home a can of “oysters” that they helped to create.Cost: $7.50/student. Max 40 students per session. Grades: 3rd – 8thLength: 1½ hours

Design It! · Long before Legos™ or Erector sets®, children used wooden boards, tree limbs, cardboard boxes, blocks and other everyday objects to construct build-ings, vehicles and gadgets. In this guided program, students are given a working design with select materials and are asked to engineer a successful project. Working in small groups, students are assigned challenges and learn about experimenting, making ob-servations, asking questions and explaining results. �is program is also available as a classroom outreach activity. Choose from one of four di�erent projects: • Balls & Tracks: 2nd – 8th. Max 48 students/session • Paper Bridges: 2nd – 8th. Max 48 students/session • Balloon Powered Cars: 2nd – 4th. Max 32 students/session • Wiring a House: 5th – 8th. Max 30 students/sessionCost: $6/student. Outreach: $8/student.*Grades: 2nd – 8thLength: 1 hour

GARMENT LOFT PROGRAMS�e following two programs take place in the BMI’s Garment Loft exhibit. We recom-mend complementing these programs with a visit to the Jewish Museum of Maryland’s exhibit Voices of Lombard Street: A Century of Change in East Baltimore, which focuses on the cultural life of Jewish immigrants in Baltimore. Visits to the JMM are free for Maryland public school students. To schedule a visit to the JMM, please call 410.732.6400 x229 or e-mail info@jewishmuseummd.org.

Needles & Threads · What was it like to work in Baltimore’s garment industry during its heyday from 1865 to 1930? Students investigate this question by imagining themselves as garment workers for the Baltimore Clothing Company in 1929. Studentsare divided into skilled, unskilled and management personnel. Cost: $7/student. Max 30 students per session.Grades: 3rd – 8thLength: 1 hour

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The Leo V. Berger Immigrant’s Trunk · �e BMI is pleased to o�er perfor-mances of this Jewish Museum of Maryland (JMM) program set in the Garment Loft exhibit. Step back in time to 1927 and experience Baltimore’s once booming garment industry. In this living history program, students meet a costumed interpreter playing a character based on a real-life Jewish immigrant garment worker. Students explore the interconnected themes of immigration, labor and industry. �is is a joint program with the JMM. Limited availability, please call for dates and pricing.Max 40 students per session.Grades: 4th – 8thLength: 1 hour

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All BMI school programs are designed to support the Maryland State Curriculum in the content areas of social studies, science, language arts and math. School program descriptions are accompanied by icons that indicate which standards are addressed in the particular program.

�e Maryland Engineering Challenges™ are a series of competitions for teams of students in grades 1–12 that introduce young people to the role of engineers in today's society. �e Challenges consist of four components: a written report, an oral report, the design and construction of a project (which is completed under the instruc-tion of a teacher "coach") and the project's performance in the competition at the BMI.

Engineering Challenges allow students to participate in hands-on activities that supplement classroom curricula. �ey address math and science standards and enable students to put into practice many of the abstract concepts they learn in the classroom. �e Challenges are supported by practicing engineers, who serve as advisors and judges for the competitions. �is provides interaction with professionals in the engineering �eld and helps students learn about potential career opportunities.

�e museum o�ers Challenges at the elementary, middle and high school levels, as well as Coaches’ Workshops for interested teachers. For detailed information, please visit www.thebmi.org. Maryland Engineering Challenges are supported by Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems and BGE.

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You are never too young to learn about Baltimore’s history of industry and innovation! Have a BMI educator visit your preschool or daycare for a special hands-on learning experience. Children will sing songs, hear stories, make crafts and explore objects from the museum’s traveling touch collection. All programs are designed to support the Maryland Model for School Readiness. �ese programs are available at the BMI or in your classroom as an outreach.

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Hats Off to You · Baltimore was once home to many factories that made all sorts of hats from di�erent materials, including wool, straw and felt. Learn how hats were made in Baltimore through songs, stories and seeing old hats from the museum’s col-lection. Students will get to handle hats of di�erent shapes and textures and will make a hat of their own.

Extra! Extra! Read All About It · Before computers and printers, books and newspapers were made by men and women who set each letter one at a time on print-ing presses. Explore Baltimore’s printing tradition by stamping letters and shapes, seeing old newspapers and making a newspaper page. Program includes reading stories about printing and using an antique printing press.

Put a Lid On It · Ever eat peas from a can? How does food get canned and why does it last so long in a can? In this program, students explore Baltimore’s food processing industry by seeing old cans and containers from the museum’s collection, singing songs that cannery workers sang and designing a can label.

From Heel to Toe · Why do workers wear di�erent types of shoes? Learn about the di�erent types of footwear that people use for di�erent jobs. Explore the many materials used to make boots, sneakers and sandals and design your very own shoe to take home.

Cost: $6 per student. Mileage surcharge will be added. Max 20 students per session.Grades: PreK – KLength: Up to 1 hour

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�e Baltimore Museum of Industry will o�er four Homeschool Days during the school year. �ese days are set aside just for individual homeschool families. Caregivers are free. Participating children are charged at the rates listed below.

We recommend you reserve your space in advance as programs �ll up quickly. Payment is due upon arrival at the museum. Walk-ins are welcome but we cannot guarantee availability without a reservation. Contact the Public Programs Coordinator at 410.727.4808 x117 or tours@thebmi.org.

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September 12, 2012 – Design It! – Balls & Tracks and Paper Bridges 10:00a.m. – noon., $9/student, 2nd – 8th grades December 5, 2012 – In the Neighborhood and City Builders 1:00p.m. – 3:00p.m., $8/student, K – 2nd grades

March 13, 2013 – Kids’ MotorWorks and History Alive Tour 1:00p.m. – 3:00p.m., $9.50/student, 2nd – 8th grades June 12, 2013 – Kids’ Cannery 10:00a.m. – 11:30a.m., $7.50/student, 3rd – 8th grades

Educational programs at the BMI are supported in part by funding from:Baltimore County Commission on Arts & Sciences

Joan and Milton Baxt FoundationHoward County Arts Council and Howard County Government

John J. Leidy Foundation · Maryland State Department of EducationM&T Charitable Foundation · Rotary Club of Baltimore

South Baltimore Community Advisory Panel · Target · Wells Fargo

�e BMI has limited funds available to subsidize program fees for qualifying students.

HOMESCHOOL DAYS

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If you have a group of 10 or more homeschoolers, we request that you schedule your group’s visit separately. See the school programs section of the brochure for activity options. BMI school programs must be scheduled in advance and at their regular prices by contacting the Public Programs Coordinator at 410.727.4808 x117 ortours@thebmi.org.

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