Live Virtual Programs
Now, your students can engage in live virtual tours and historian-led interactive lessons at Seminary Ridge Museum & Education Center. Whether your school is nearby or thousands of miles from Gettysburg, you can immerse your students in the history and meaning of the Civil War.
Programs
Programs are presented via Nearpod and Zoom and can be customized for your students and curriculum needs.
Programs align with National Council for the Social Studies standards to build content knowledge and critical thinking.
Easy to book and affordable at just $100 per tour or interactive lesson for up to 50 students. Discounts available for two or more programs for your class or school.
Funding: Seminary Ridge Museum and Education Center programs and subscriptions may qualify for use of state and federal COVID-19 relief funds to address learning loss, and to support summer and supplemental programs. Available technology funding may also support these programs. Check with your district for more information.
Fighters of the First Day
Virtual Tour
Students explore the events of July 1 as historians guide them through examinations of objects that tell the story of the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. On July 1, 1863, more than 50,000 soldiers fought west and north of Gettysburg on ground where hundreds of residents lived. Seminary Ridge Museum displays items belonging to, and used by, these fighters and civilians and features these primary source objects in this virtual, guided tour.
Become a Soldier
Interactive Lesson
In this interactive lesson, students discover some of the hardships men experienced in the army and explore the methods by which enlistees trained during the Civil War. Between 1861 and 1865, millions enlisted in United States and Confederate armies. Most had no military experience and endured endless drilling and marching to become cohesive fighting units.
Inside the Seminary Hospital
Virtual Tour
The Battle of Gettysburg resulted in more than 50,000 casualties. At the end of fighting, thousands of wounded men lay in makeshift hospitals, including at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, where patients from both armies were treated from July to September 1863. This tour introduces students to 19th-century ways of caring for the wounded as they follow soldiers from the battlefield through recovery.
Run the Hospital!
Interactive Lesson
In this lesson students, armed with primary sources, complete a series of challenges like those medical personnel faced in the heat of battle including, where to establish hospitals and how to provide effective treatment. At Gettysburg, surgeons relied on their training to make quick decisions to care for wounded soldiers. Will your students follow the steps to save the most patients?
On Freedom’s Frontier
Virtual Tour
Gettysburg is located just ten miles north of the Mason-Dixon Line, a 19th-century border between slavery and freedom. For African Americans living in Adams County, fear of being captured and sent southward into bondage was a daily reality. Using primary sources, this tour explores the stories of enslaved people, those who escaped to liberty, and the white residents who assisted and protected them from slavecatchers and Confederate soldiers.
Reunion and Reconciliation at Gettysburg
Interactive Lesson
In the decades following the Civil War, veterans met at Gettysburg in joint Blue-Gray reunions. The efforts typically emphasized the spirit of reunion and reconciliation, without focusing on controversial causes and consequences of the conflict. Examine former soldiers’ struggle to achieve peace, the difficulties that they endured in doing so, and the monuments and memorials they dedicated to their shared sacrifice and military service.
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