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girl scout programs
For adventurous girls. Inquisitive girls. Girls who love science. And technology. And fun. The Henry Ford offers several badge-aligned programs and team-building programs to inspire a generation of girls who are bold, informed and confident enough to change the world around them.
boy scout programs
We're here to inspire your Boy Scouts to change the world. Our programs, such as OnInnovation.com, include onsite and online resources to help boys earn their Inventing Merit Badge.
summer discovery camp
Send Your Kids to the "Best Summer Camp Around". The Henry Ford offers a well-rounded schedule for inquisitive, adventurous and energetic kids in grades 2-9. Camp days are packed with activities, including special tours, rides, hiking, crafts, fishing, robotics and more!
the ultimate sleepover
The Great American Museum Experience (GAME) is a two-day overnight adventure that includes admission to multiple attractions, meals and accommodations in our Lovett Hall dorms. A perfect outing for scouts, youth groups and field trips.
if i had a hammer
Your youth group will be immersed in this problem-solver’s delight as they work together to build an 8- by 11- foot house inside Henry Ford Museum. A perfect outing for scouts, youth groups and field trips.
maker faire detroit
A two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates arts, crafts, engineering, food, music, science and technology projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. It’s for creative, resourceful people who like to tinker and love to make things.
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Junior Girl Scout Badge Program at Ford Rouge Factory Tour. Learn about LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)architecture and energy conservation at the Rouge.
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Junior Girl Scout Badge Program at Ford Rouge Factory Tour. Get your hands dirty participating in activities that illustrate the environmental initiatives incorporated at the Rouge. Discover ways you can help your home and community become more connected with the earth around you.
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Junior Girl Scout Badge Program at Ford Rouge Factory Tour. Discover the tools you will need to use in the career that you choose and meet professional women working in tech at The Henry Ford.
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Cadette Senior Girl Scout Interest Project in Greenfield Village. Explore how women's roles have changed over time. Collect pictures, recipes, traditions and stories.
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Cadette-Senior Girl Scout Badge Program in Henry Ford Museum. Discover women inventors in history. Think about a future career in design and innovation. Learn problem-solving skills, and use them to create your own inventions.
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Brownie Girl Scout Try-It Program in Greenfield Village. Learn about young Henry Ford and his sister Margaret as you explore their past.
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Junior Girl Scout Badge Program at the Ford Rouge Factory Tour. Investigate the stories that fill the historic factory complex and explore the role the Rouge plays in the auto industry, our community and the world.
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Junior Girl Scout Program in Henry Ford Museum. Celebrate Black History Month with our exhibit With Liberty and Justice for All and a musical and dramatic program about the Civil Rights Movement called “Minds on Freedom.” Includes special hands-on activities.
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A resource guide that links Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition to corresponding badge requirements for Brownie, Junior, Cadette, and Senior Girl Scouts.
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Online & Onsite Resource Guide. Encourage your Boy Scouts to discover and apply the core principles of entrepreneurship as they strive to earn their Entrepreneurship Merit Badge and ultimately become successful businessmen.
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Online & Onsite Resource Guide. Encourage your Boy Scouts to discover and apply the core principles of innovation as they strive to earn their Inventing Merit Badge and ultimately be successful in their own lives.
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A resource guide that links Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition to corresponding merit badge requirements for Cub Scouts, Weeblos, and Boy Scouts.
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Dramatic Presentation in Greenfield Village. 15-minute presentation in Scotch Settlement School in which students are guided through a 19th century civics lesson.
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Dramatic Presentation in Greenfield Village. Explores how the Gullah culture and language of the Georgia Sea Islands preserved elements of African culture.
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Facilitated Activity in Henry Ford Museum. Assist in the assembly of an authentic Model T. Spend as much or as little time as you want.
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Dramatic Presentation in Henry Ford Museum. A 30-minute musical and dramatic program that addresses the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Dramatic Presentation in Greenfield Village. Meet Thomas Edison the day after he introduced the world's first practical incandescent light bulb in this live one-man show.
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Dramatic Presentation in Greenfield Village. 15-minute play about Elijah McCoy's journey to overcome racial injustice and register 57 patents.
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Facilitated Activity at Ford Rouge Factory Tour. During this 10-minute assembly line activity, visitors work together to discover the teamwork and flexibility of the modern moving assembly line.
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Self-Guided and Facilitated Program. Two-day, overnight adventure that includes admission to multiple attractions, meals and accommodation in our Lovett Hall dormitories.
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Pilot Literacy Enhancement Program in Henry Ford Museum. Immersive vocabulary recognition through storytime and hands-on activities.
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Facilitated Activity in Henry Ford Museum. Visitors assemble miniature wooden Model Ts using station and moving assembly line methods. 20-minute program.
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Take a ride to explore historic modes of transportation, including the Weiser Railroad, horsedrawn omnibus, Model T and the carousel.
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Dramatic Presentation in Greenfield Village. Orville, Wilbur, and their sister, Katharine, tell the dramatic tale of their first flights on December 17, 1903.
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Facilitated Program in Henry Ford Museum. Teams of students work together to construct an 8- by 11-foot house inside the Museum. Uses math and language arts skills.
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Free downloadable Teacher Guide to accompany If I Had a Hammer program in Henry Ford Museum. Includes pre- and post-visit activities and curriculum connections.
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Special Event outside & in Henry Ford Museum. A two-day, family-friendly celebration of arts, crafts, engineering, food, music, science and technology projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset.
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Facilitated Activity at Ford Rouge Factory Tour. Step outside the Rouge and see how the ecosystem of this industrial setting, including soil, water, and air, has been transformed through sustainable design.
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The Henry Ford offers amazing camp experiences. Discovery Camp® is our week-long history-based camps for children going into the 2nd through 9th grade. Each level has its own theme and related crafts and activities.
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Dramatic Presentation in Greenfield Village. Favorite stories from Mark Twain's book come alive in this 15-minute show.
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Dramatic Presentation in Greenfield Village. Inspiring and sobering 15-minute program about life for enslaved people.
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Dramatic Presentation in Greenfield Village. 20-minute dramatic presentation on Women's Suffrage Movement.
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Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Symposium in Henry Ford Museum's Anderson Theater. Features keynote speakers and student panelists addressing themes within With Liberty and Justice for All exhibit.
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Self-guided Itinerary. Explore artifacts, exhibits and sites associated with the development of the Model T; includes in-depth information and questions.
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Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum. Explore the early days of flight. Online exhibit, downloadable lesson plans and student "pilot logs" available.
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Guide for Greenfield Village One-Room School Program downloadable online. Includes historical background and pre-, post-, and during visit suggestions, curriculum connections, and full bibliography.
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Self-Guided Activity at Ford Rouge Factory Tour. Handle a "smart tool" that workers use on the factory floor and simulate steering wheel installation on a Ford F-150 pickup.
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Advice and instructions for using "My Collections" cards on a field trip. "My Collections" is your own personalized group of digitized artifacts from the Collections of The Henry. Adapt the assignment to your curriculum focus! Cards currently available for Driving America in Henry Ford Museum only.
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Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum and Online Exhibit. Focuses on the Revolutionary Era, the Antislavery Movement and Civil War Era, Women's Suffrage Movement, and Civil Rights Movement. Online resources include Lesson Plans, Exhibit Exploration Guide, and Timeline with Related Artifacts.
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Student Exploration Guides for Grades 4-5, 6-8, and 9-12. For use in the classroom and in the museum. Obtain free Discovering Democracy in Action in With Liberty and Justice for All Student Exploration Guides for each student in your class. These guides are used when you visit the exhibit in Henry Ford Museum.
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Online Interactive Module. Investigate the daily lives of the Daggetts, a colonial family living in northeastern Connecticut.
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Online Exhibit. The photographers of the Detroit Publishing Company, founded in 1895, brought the world to everyone's living room.
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Online Exhibit of The Henry Ford's historic costume collection. Much can be learned about societies and individuals by examining the way clothing was made and what people wore.
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Online Exhibit. Explore R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House - the only surviving prototype of Fuller's vision for mass-produced, affordable housing.
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Online Interactive. Access our easy-to-use digital galleries, research, then create and post your own online exhibitions. Exhibits can be shared online.
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Student handout. Show students how to take on the tasks of researching, collecting, organizing, and writing for an online exhibit using The Henry Ford's cool ExhibitBuilder online tool.
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Research material. Information on Henry Ford’s story, the Model T, the assembly line and innovation from the curators of The Henry Ford.
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Research Material. Information on the American auto industry and its impact, automobile issues today and 20th-century migration and immigration from the curators of The Henry Ford.
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PowerPoint slideshow. Learn about glass making, the paper mill, and workers with disabilities at the Rouge.
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Online Exhibit of Herman Miller furniture and product literature collections. Herman Miller, Inc., a Zeeland, Michigan company founded in 1923, has become a leader in design and manufacture of modern furniture.
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Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum. Explore the early days of flight. Online exhibit, downloadable lesson plans and student "pilot logs" available.
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Interactive module. Uses oral history interviews of some of America's most iconic innovators (past and present) and other assets of The Henry Ford's OnInnovation resource to explore the basic tenets of innovation and its role in participants' own lives.
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Online Video of national town hall meeting hosted in Henry Ford Museum. Video discusses the equality and opportunity cited in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
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Interactive Module. Explore artifacts, stories and the cramped quarters of an enslaved carpenter at Georgia's Hermitage Plantation.
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Online Interactive Module. Follow a fictional family as they purchase and use their first automobile.
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Website from The Henry Ford. Collection of oral histories from today's visionaries; includes video, transcripts, and contextual information. Connects today's and yesterday's innovators.
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PowerPoint slideshow. Looks at the Rouge’s contentious and sometimes violent labor history. Each image is accompanied by background information chronicling the five-year struggle to organize the Rouge.
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Online Exhibit. Each month, our curators choose unique and interesting items from our collection to showcase.
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PowerPoint slideshow. Examines sophisticated technological and environmental innovations at the Rouge which manage water, soil and daylight.
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Online Exhibit. Follow the journey of the Montgomery City bus on which Rosa Parks initiated a new era in the American quest for freedom and equality to its new home in Henry Ford Museum.
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PowerPoint slideshow. A general overview of The Rouge from its establishment as the largest industrial complex in the world in the 20th century to its revitalization in the 21st century. Each image includes brief, background information. Many images include questions for further analysis, interpretation and discussion.
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Online Exhibit. Explore the toys,games and dolls children played with in the past and what parents did – or didn’t – consider important about their children’s playthings. See how advances in technology changed toys.
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Podcasts created by Henry Ford Academy students. Recordings examine issues related to alternative fuels, transportation networks, and more, through music and talk shows.
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Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum and Online Exhibit. Focuses on the Revolutionary Era, the Antislavery Movement and Civil War Era, Women's Suffrage Movement, and Civil Rights Movement. Online resources include Lesson Plans, Exhibit Exploration Guide, and Timeline with Related Artifacts.
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Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum and Online. Take a look back at this past century and our "everyday" world. Reminisce with this exhibit spanning five generations.
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