Steamtown National Historic Site - For Teachers (U.S. National Park Service)

A Park Ranger and steam locomotive engineer talk with young school children. The children are dressed in white shirts and wear engineer hats.

Courtesy, Lackawanna Heritage Valley

School children and their teacher chat with Park Ranger Suzanne Rozdilski and VIP engineer Bernie O'Brien about railroading during their classroom visit to Steamtown NHS.

The Education Development Team at Steamtown National Historic Site has revised our elementary education programs in order to better connect students to the mission and stories of the National Park Service and our Park. The programs assist Pennsylvania educators in meeting curriculum requirements of the PA Department of Education standards. All curriculum-based programs require direct teacher and chaperone involvement.

We offer three new curriculum-based programs for Pennsylvania teachers - all other school groups will be scheduled as Field Trips.

Steamtown Educators Guide, Grades K-6

Welcome, educators! (PDF, 58k)

Info Brochure (PDF, 243k)

K-6 Educator's Guide (24 pages, PDF, 1.3M)

Program Reservation Form (PDF, 53k)

Grades K-1 Student Activity Guide

Moving People and Things by Rail

Grades K – 1

This program is designed to satisfy Pennsylvania’s Kindergarten-1st grade curriculum requirements. Using demonstrations, historic artifacts and role-playing, students are introduced to steam railroading in great-grandpa’s time!

$150/class, 30 (max) students per group, two groups per day

Grades K-1 Student Activity Guide (26 pages, PDF, 1.2M)

Grades 2-3 Student Activity Guide

Making the Railroad Run

Grades 2 – 3

This program is designed to satisfy Pennsylvania’s 2nd-3rd grade curriculum requirements. Using museum exhibits, displays and role-playing, students will explore the functions and characteristics of an operating steam railroad.

$150/class, 30 (max) students per group, two groups per day

Grades 2-3 Student Activity Guide (8 pages, PDF, 369k)

Grades 4-6 Student Activity Guide

Railroads in the Local Community

Grades 4 – 6

This program focuses on the people, such as engineers, conductors, Pullman porters and others, who kept a railroad running smoothly and comfortably! Using demonstrations, historic artifacts, and role-playing, students are introduced to social, math and geographic aspects that people faced during the steam-era.

$150/class, 30 (max) students per group, two groups per day

Grades 4-6 Student Activity Guide (8 pages, PDF, 282k)

Take a QuickTime Virtual Tour of Steamtown's Museum complex!

Virtual Tour

Take a virtual tour of Steamtown NHS by clicking on the links below. Each takes you to a page featuring a 360-degree rotating photograph of a Steamtown location.

To rotate the picture, position your cursor on the photograph and left-click. Hold the left button down and move the mouse to rotate the photograph. You may also use the Shift key to zoom in and the Control key to zoom out.

The virtual tour requires QuickTime Multimedia Player.
Download it free here!

(Note: The virtual tour is not compatible with Netscape 6.)

FIELD TRIPS

ALL GROUPS REQUIRE ADVANCE RESERVATIONS