Activities relating to each exhibit section of the Great Hall of Washington History
may be found here. The activity sheets on "Signs" and "Who Wore What?" are geared
especially to the K-2 grade range, to be done as a team with their chaperones.
Activity sheets (from the WSHM Field Guide) come in three levels, with only rough
estimates of the grade levels.
Level I: 2nd – 4th grade
Level II: 4th – 7th grade
Level III: 7th – 12th grade
Tips for using our gallery activities:
- Select the difficulty level (I, II, III) that is most appropriate for your students
- Don’t assign more than two different activity sheets per student
- Spread the topics throughout your student groups (for example: Group 1 does Natural
Settings, Group 2 does Native Heritage, etc.). This helps disperse the groups throughout
the exhibit hall, prevents overload, and allows for topical review and reporting
by each group when back at school.
- When searching for answers, students must use a variety of sources (i.e. audio,
video, text, photo flipbooks, artifacts, and gallery interpreters)