The Telephone Historical Centre offers outreach programs that bring the history of telephones alive. Our team of educators can work with your classroom, school, community education center or business to deliver a lesson that satisfies Social Studies standards and the Kentucky Academic Standards for Arts and Humanities.
Classroom Outreach
Classroom Outreach offers teachers and their students engaging, hands-on educational experiences that align with state social studies standards. Museum education staff works directly with classroom teachers to conduct an engaging lesson using historical artifacts as teaching aids.
Students become historians as they analyze historical images and artifacts and participate in activities such as quill writing or wool spinning to develop visual literacy, historical literacy and critical thinking skills. These interactive lessons are free for schools and community education centers.
School outreach programs have the power to engage students with community issues while simultaneously sparking skill development. By connecting economic, political, and societal forces to their everyday lives and showing them how they can impact them directly, school outreach programs have an incredible capacity for positive impactful action from both students and communities over time. By including community partners into classroom learning environments they provide diverse pathways that meet diverse learning styles.
Community Outreach
Community outreach refers to an umbrella term covering many activities. From handing out informational pamphlets on new health and safety regulations, to developing interactive educational games and exhibits that educate residents, visitors, and local businesses; there are countless forms of community outreach programs offered at The Telephone Historical Centre that aim to assist residents in these areas as well as historical preservation, law enforcement, medical care services and much more.
THC promotes our services at local events and through its online presence. Our website and social media platforms are regularly updated with Texas history, cultural heritage, conservation and preservation news and events. In addition, staff at THC attend many public and private events each year to promote our programs – sharing the THC experience with those interested in our historic collections, local treasures and state’s rich history.
