Teacher & Group Info
Teachers
Curriculum Based Purpose
The Jenney House Museum programs offers each student a glimpse into the lives of our ancestors and raises their cultural awareness by connecting them with the people, places, and ideas of the first settlers, who came here in the 17th Century searching for a new way of life. It affords hands on and interactive opportunities for students and teachers – keys to successful and positive learning and crosses the curriculum to each grade level and most subject areas. Applications apply directly to math, economics, physics, science, earth science, environmental science, technology, engineering, history, social studies, language arts, reading, writing, art, and family and consumer science. Curriculum units based on our programs afford teachers the opportunity to connect on-sight visitations to the classroom and are aligned with the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks and aid in MCAS preparation!! We cover 17th Century Plymouth and Massachusetts history, colonial industry including simple machines and how they work together to make a complex machine, colonial jobs and learning by apprenticing, the barter system and how it led to our current economic system, colonial agriculture and the use of corn as a staple, the development of tools, technology changes past, present and future, water power and energy, family life in colonial times and words and meanings.