Homeschool Days

The Atlanta History Center offers special monthly programs for homeschool students and their families. Each month explores a different subject through exhibition tours and a variety of activities for kids from toddler to teen.

February 14:  Now That's Entertainment.  How does entertainment connect with history? Explore the exhibition, Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment, and see how entertainment helped define different generations.

March 14:  Heroes on the Homefront.  The USA is defined by more than the record of military battles that are won and lost. It also includes the everyday struggles waged on the homefront. Through Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, and Rosie the Riveter, discover the roles that women and homefront heroes played in the building of the nation.

April 12:  First Contact.  When European voyagers arrived in the New World, the collision between native people and foreign explorers had dramatic and often unintended results. Explore how these cultures interacted, through the European effect on America as well as the impact of the New World on the Old.

May 18:  Generations of Education.  Learn Native American hunting skills like a Creek or Cherokee child. Sit at a desk in a nineteenth-century home, learning the “three Rs:” reading, writing, and arithmetic. Understand what it was like to teach in the first public schools in Atlanta. Train to become a domestic servant or work in a twentieth-century factory. In this highly interactive program, experience how education changed through time as technology and social roles shifted.