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Ward Melville Heritage Organization  
http://www.wardmelvilleheritage.org/ElectronicFieldTrips.asp
Contact:  (631) 751-2244 or (631) 689-5888
 

About the Provider

The Ward Melville Heritage Organization is proud to offer state-of-the-art technology by featuring videoconferencing programs in Coastal Ecology, History and Literacy.

Through this latest technology, WMHO focuses on the national educational commitment
of "No Child Left Behind" by reaching out to children across the globe regardless of
academic, geographical, or socio-economic limitations. All programs are in aligned
to National and New York State Learning Standards and can be tailored to appropriate age levels.

All programs are taught by qualified instructors and are BOCES Arts-In-Education and Outdoor Education approved.

Registration Information

Education Program Request Form - http://www.wardmelvilleheritage.org/ProgramRequestForm.asp

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Program Topics

Changing Faces of War: The American Spirit Prevails

Grades 7-12
Duration: 45-60 minutes
Fee: $165.00

The Ward Melville Heritage Organization is happy to announce our newest videoconferencing program that was completed this summer with the collaboration of New York Institute of Technology and Cablevision.

It is called "The Changing Face of War: The American Spirit Prevails".

Throughout generations, American involvement in war has taught us valuable lessons about our country and about ourselves. Through the viewing of a videotape of an intergenerational dialog among students and veterans, the analysis of primary source documents and political cartoons, and an interactive videoconference with an American veteran of war, students will be led to an understanding of the American Spirit as it is manifested in times of war, whether it be the era of the American Revolution or in conflicts of today.

Electronic Explorations: The Salt Marsh Ecosystem

Grades K-12
Duration: 60 minutes
Fee: $150.00

Students who participate in this program can study a marine environment without ever leaving the classroom. This distance learning program utilizes two-way video conferencing and wireless technology to enable students outside our locale to "visit" and study the temperate salt marsh.

First Long Islanders: Original Inhabitants

Grades  3-6
Duration: 45 minutes
Fee: $150

The Ward Melville Heritage Organization (WMHO) presents a distance-learning program utilizing two-way video conferencing that allows students to 'travel back in time' and explore how Native Americans used the environment in their everyday lives. Our trained instructor will guide your students through an interactive discussion focusing on available environmental resources and family roles within this Algonquian culture.

Windows Through Time: Journals of American Revolutionary War Spies!

Grades  4-7
Duration: 45 minutes
Fee: $150

WMHO is proud to announce its newest literacy distance learning program, which is based upon the actual workings of the Setauket Spy Ring (1778) during the American Revolutionary War. Setauket, a little town on the north shore of Long Island, is where the Setauket Spy Ring operated by delivering secret messages to General George Washington about the covert operations of the Redcoats. Using invisible writing, secret codes and ciphers, this spy ring was never found out by the British, in fact, its members were kept secret for over one hundred fifty years! Join our instructor who will bring your class back to colonial times and engage your students in both literacy and history with Windows Through Time: Journals of American Revolutionary War Spies!!