School programs at the Mission Houses Museum encourage vocabulary development, critical thinking skills and address a number of Hawai`i State Standards. If a program appeals to you but is not geared toward your students’ grade level, please contact us to see how we might be able to accommodate you.
Availability: Tuesday – Friday, 9:00 and 9:30 am
Special arrangements can be made for programs on weekends or at different times. Groups are asked to arrive at least 15 minutes before scheduled start time.
Admission:
$4 per student, minimum 10 students. Scholarships are available to cover transportation!
Chaperones:
1 adult per 15 students is allowed free. All chaperones are expected to stay with their students. Each adult over this ratio is $8.00
Our Past and Present
Recommended for Grades: Preschool (ages: 4- 6) to Grade 2
This new tour for preschoolers, ages 4 and up, introduces children to history through various sorting exercises using objects from everyday life, past and present. Using taste, touch, and sight they explore differences and similarities between the 19th century and today. Builds language, social, gross and fine motor skills. Social Studies: K.1.1, K.7.1, K.8.1, 1.2.1, 1.3.1 , 2.1.1, 2.2.1 2.7.2, 2.8.1, ; Language Arts: K.1.1, K.1.6, K.1.8, K.1.9, K.3.1, K.3.2, K.4.1, K.6.1, K.6.2, K.6.3, K.6.4, K.6.5, K.6.6, K.7.2, K.7.3, 1.1.9, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 2.1.5, 2.6.1, 2.6.4, 2.6.5; Fine Arts: K.1.2, K.1.5, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.4.4, 2.1.2
Museum ABCs
Recommended for Grades: Preschoolers to 1st Grade
Young visitors are introduced to the museum’s historic and decorative art collections emphasizing visual and verbal skills in this fun I Spy game focusing on the museum’s exhibitions. Students track their findings in a small journal that goes home with them. Builds language, social, gross and fine motor skills. Social Studies: K.7.1, 1.2.1, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 3.6.2, Language Arts: K.1.1, K.1.2, K1.5, K1.8, K.4.1,K.4.2, K.4.3, K.4.4, K.5.1, K.1.9, , K.6.1, K.6.2, K.6.3, K.6.4, K.6.5, K.6.6, K.7.3, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.8, 1.1.9, 1.4.1, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.5.4, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4,; Fine Arts: K.3.1, !.1.1, 1.4.4
Nā Kamali`i – The Children
Recommended for Grades: K - 3
Explore what it was like to be a missionary child in the early 1800s! See how the missionary children lived in our Frame House, built in 1821. Experience the clothes they wore, the chores they did, and the games they played. Learn how printing was done before computers and typewriters. Students will come away with a sense of Old Honolulu and how the lives of today’s children differ from the lives of the missionary children. Hawai`i State Standards: Social Studies: K.7.1, K.8.1, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.8.1, , 2.7.1, 2.7.2, 2.8.1, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 3.7.4. Language Arts: K.1.1, K.1.8, K.1.9, K.4.1, , K.6.1, K.6.2, K.6.3, K.6.4, K.6.5, K.6.6, K.7.3, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.6.5, 2.1.5, 2.6.1, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 3.5.4, 3.6.1, 3.6.3 Fine Arts:
Kids Teaching Kids History
Recommended for Grades 4 through 8
Students work with museum staff to study the experiences of early Hawaiians and missionaries while building their public speaking skills in order to give peers a costumed tour of early 19th century Hawai‘i at the museum. Games, chores, printing and more! Hawai`i State Standards: Social Studies: 4.1.1. 4.2.1, 4.3.3, 4.6.3, 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 7HHK.3.3, 7P1.3.1, 7P1.3.2, 8.2.1,8.2.2, 8.3.9, Language Arts: 4.4.1, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.6.6, 4.6.7 , 4.7.1, 4.7.3, 4.7.4, 5.1.2, 5.5.5, 5.6.1, 5.6.2, 5.6.3, 5.6.4, 5.6.6, 5.6.7, 5.7.2,5.7.3, 6.1.2,
‘Amelika in Hawai`i
Recommended for Grades: 4 - 5
Students will explore the realm of American material culture and its impact on Hawai`i in this exciting hands-on program. Each group will receive an artifact kit with objects so that they can find out what it was, what it is made out, and how it was used. Students will see the objects in historical context throughout our historic Frame House and Print Shop and get to use some of them! Students will also be able to compare these historic artifacts with items from the present and see how much things have really changed in the last 180 years! Hawai`i State Standards: Social Studies: 4.2.1, 4.3.3, 4.3.7, 4.6.3, 5.2.1, 5.2.2 Language Arts: 4.6.1, 5.6.1, 5.6.3, 5.6.4
Connected Lives, Shared Cultures
Recommended for Grades: 5-8
This program examines the cultural exchanges between the missionaries and Hawaiians. Through the experience of our Frame House from 1821, printing press, and hands-on activities, students will look at how the two cultures interacted, shared, and adapted to each other. Students will also learn about the social, political, and economic influences of the missionaries. Hawai`i State Standards: Social Studies: 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 6.6.1, 6.6.2, 6.7.3, 7HHK.1.1, 7HHK.3.3, 7PI.3.1, 7PI.3.2, 8.2.1, 8.2.2, 8.3.9 Language Arts: 5.6.1, 5.6.3, 5.6.4, 6.6.4, , 8.2.4,
Pen and Print
Recommended for Grades 2 to 4
Students examine the development of a written Hawaiian language by exploring ways early 19th century Hawaiians passed on their stories and the changes brought about by a written Hawaiian alphabet. Hands-on activities bring the efforts of the missionaries to light as students see the printing press in action, bind a book, write with slate and nibbed pens, and see early Hawaiian works printed on the mission’s press. Hawai`i State Standards: Social Studies: 2.7.2, 2.2.1, 2.8.1, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.6.1, 3.8.2, 3.4.2, 4.1.1. 4.2.1, 4.3.3, 4.3.7 , 5.2.1, 5.2.2 Language Arts: 2.1.5, 2.4.6, 2.5.3, 2.5.1, 2.6.1, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 3.4.1, 3.5.4, 3.6.1, 3.6.3, 4.4.1, 4.4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.
“Listening to the Past”
Girl Scouts Brownie Try-it Program
$6 per person
What will you hear when you listen to the stories of the past? What if buildings could talk? Make the past come alive for your Brownie Scouts at the Mission Houses Museum! Listen to the stories of the New England Protestant Missionaries inside of our Frame House from 1821 and at the Mission Cemetery where many of them still reside. Learn about and play Hawaiian and Missionary games to get the feel for a time without TV, Nintendo ™ games, or computers. Our program fulfills three (3) requirements for the Listening to the Past Try-It!
Museum Hours: Public Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am – 4 pm
Administrative offices: Monday through Saturday 8:30 am – 4 pm
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Booking a program: Call 808.531-0481 ext 707 to schedule one of these programs
Costs for tours: $4 per student
1 adult for every 15 students free, $8 per adult over the ratio
Busing/transportation for underserved communities in rural, outlying O‘ahu communities is offered on an as-needed basis.
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