Welcome! Thank you for your interest in planning a field trip to IHMEC. We offer a variety of docent-led tour options for your students and encourage you to review the options below to determine the best fit for your school and students' needs (PDF available).
IHMEC field trips are offered to accredited elementary schools, junior high/middle schools, and high schools, grades 3-12. Colleges/universities, supplementary programs, non-profit groups, and youth organizations (ages 8 - 22) can also request docent led field trips.
All tours align with Common Core Standards
Tour Option Overview:
Take a Stand (Grades 3 and above) >
2012-2013 FIELD TRIP OPTIONS
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Explore the history of the Holocaust by taking an inquiry-based walk through our Karkomi Permanent Exhibition. Investigate the experiences of Holocaust survivors, witnesses, resistors, and rescuers through artifacts and testimony. Analyze the human and moral implications of individual choice, responsibility, and memory through connecting galleries and themes. Discover what influences our decision to act as bystanders or upstanders.
Your tour may also include stops in other Museum exhibitions:
Whenever possible, the Museum will schedule an eyewitness to the Holocaust from our Speakers’ Bureau as part of the field trip.
Length: 3 hours |
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Best for Grade 6; recommended for Grades 7 & 8 with limited background knowledge
Learn about the power of one voice in taking a stand for positive change. Draw connections between the lessons and themes of Make a Difference: The Harvey L. Miller Family Youth Exhibition to the lessons and themes of a study of the Holocaust and genocide. This tour option does not include a full tour of the Karkomi Permanent Exhibition.
Explore the following exhibitions:
Whenever possible, the Museum will schedule an eyewitness to the Holocaust from our Speakers’ Bureau as part of the field trip.
Length: 2 hours, 25 minutes |
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Best for Grade 5; recommended for Grade 6 with limited background knowledge
Discover different ways to become more actively involved in your local and global communities through the hands-on activities in Make a Difference: The Harvey L. Miller Family Youth Exhibition. Learn how identity, social responsibility, and community tie into a discussion of universal human and civil rights and introductory study of the Holocaust and genocide. This tour option does not include a full tour of the Karkomi Permanent Exhibition.
Explore the following exhibitions:
Length: 2 hours, 25 minutes |
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Best for Grades 3 & 4
Through hands-on, interactive activities, discover what it takes to care for yourself and others, learn how to speak up for those being bullied, and understand core values of respect, compassion, justice, and citizenship. Develop the strategies and tools necessary to not only identify a problem, but also to identify and overcome any obstacles to solving that problem. This tour option does not include a full tour of the Karkomi Permanent Exhibition.
Explore the following exhibitions:
Length: 2 hours, 10 minutes |
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