Student Programs
The Valentine offers interactive student programs and tours that enhance classroom instruction and make history come alive! All programs are compatible with the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) requirements and led by Valentine Educators and Guides. To learn more about our offerings, view program descriptions below or search using our search bar. You can also download a copy of our student programs booklet. New this fall! The Valentine will be offering virtual museum tours and programs. Read more below or email education@thevalentine.org. In the meantime, check out our Virtual Valentine page for online student resources.
Programming available for the 2021-2022 school year!
Outreach Programs
The Valentine’s outreach programs offer the opportunity for students to experience our collections from their school or classroom. Valentine Educators bring history alive with programming materials, recreation artifacts and primary sources to classrooms within Central Virginia.
Outreach programs are $5 per student. Mileage charges apply for schools over 30 miles away. At this time number of participants per educator is determined by State and school guidelines. Funding is available for Title One and RPS schools.
Onsite Museum Tours
This fall the Valentine is open to students! Visit our galleries or the 1812 Wickham House to engage with Richmond history.
Onsite programs are $5 per student. All educators working with children are required to be masked. For the 2021-2022 school year we are able to accommodate three classes at a time onsite. At this time number of participants per educator is determined by state and school guidelines. Funding is available for Title One and RPS schools.
Valentine Learning Trunks
For hybrid or in-person classrooms, the Valentine is pleased to offer Valentine Learning Trunks, a free, comprehensive museum-in-a-box experience delivered directly to you! Each trunk comes with reproduction artifacts and primary sources, activities, supplemental digital content and suggested lesson plans for integrating this hand-on experience into your curriculum.
Learning trunks are a flat $60 to reserve and can be delivered anywhere within 30 miles of the Valentine Museum. Schools or organizations located more than 30 miles may be asked to pay for mileage. Funding is available for Title One and RPS schools.
Virtual Museum Tours
The Valentine’s virtual field trips offer the opportunity for students to experience our collections from home or the classroom in real time. Join one of our Valentine Educators on a live exploration of the our galleries and historic home, designed to engage young learners and connect to your curriculum.
Virtual field trips are $50 per program. Funding is available for Title One and RPS schools.
Virtual Museum Programs
Walking Tours
Use the City as your classroom! Valentine walking tours are customized to meet your instructional needs and interests. From Richmond Canals to Jackson Ward to Court End we have tours that will cover all of your curriculum needs!
Walking tours are $75 per program. Funding is available for Title One and RPS schools.
2021 – 2022 Student Programs
Monumental II: Looking at representation and design in Richmond’s current and future monumental landscape (available as outreach or virtual)
Students will demonstrate an understanding how monuments as objects of public memory are created in our community and how representation and design have changed over time.
Program Type: school programGrade(s): 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6
SOL(s): VS.1, VS.8, USII, USII.3, USII.4, CE.1, VUS.1, VUS.7, GOVT.1, GOVT.3, GOVT.9
Whose Hat is That? (available as outreach or onsite)
Using hats, dance and stories, students examine roles in our community from long ago and today!
Program Type: school programGrade(s): 1, k, prek
SOL(s): K1, K2
Design in Time (available for outreach, onsite or virtual!)
Play with patterns and colors while exploring shapes and textures found in the clothes we wear and the jobs we do.
Program Type: school programGrade(s): 2, 1, k, prek
SOL(s): K1, K2, K3, K4, K6; Math K1, K16, 1.1g, 1.1.d, 2nd 2.1e, f, g
Wickham House Tours (available in person or virtually)
Experience a customized virtual Wickham House tour in real-time built to meet your groups needs and interests.
Program Type: school programGrade(s): 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, k, prek
SOL(s): K.1, K2, K3, K4, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, VS.1 USII.1 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.10, 3.1a, b, e, g, 3.3, 3.5, VUS.6d
Our Changing Community (available onsite or as outreach)
Trades and recreation activities of early Richmond residents are examined through artifact investigations, games and a craft.
Program Type: school programGrade(s): 1, k
SOL(s): K1, K2, K7, K8
History Makers (available for outreach, onsite or virtual)
In this virtual program, students are introduced to the museum and stories of important Virginia History Makers.
Program Type: school programGrade(s): 3, 2, 1
SOL(s): 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.10, VS.1a, VS, 2e, VS.3g, VS.5b
Powhatan People Virtual Tour (available for outreach, onsite or virtual!)
Join us for a virtual tour, as we learn more about the Powhatan people who called the Richmond region home prior to colonization.
Program Type: school programGrade(s): 4, 2, k, prek
SOL(s): 2.1a, 2.3, 2.7, VS.1f, VS.2
Greek by Design (available for outreach, onsite or virtual!)
Students identify Greek and Roman neoclassical elements in the 1812 Wickham House, Valentine galleries and throughout Richmond architecture.
Program Type: school programGrade(s): 3
SOL(s): 3.1, 3.3, 3.5
Richmond Spies (available virtual, onsite or outreach)
Learn about spies who lived and worked in the Richmond region during the Revolutionary and Civil wars.
Program Type: school programGrade(s): 6, 5, 4
SOL(s): VS.1, VS.7, V.8
Fall Line and Freedom (available for onsite or virtual!)
What made Richmond a city and a capital? Discover what makes our city historical and unique.
Program Type: school programGrade(s): 5, 4
SOL(s): VS. 2, VS.5, VS.8, USI.1, VUS.1, VUS.6,
Era Explorations: Richmond in Black, White and Gray (available as outreach or virtual)
Examine the Civil War in Richmond through the lives of the free and enslaved, Union and Confederate, and through the lens of prolific photographers.
Program Type: school programGrade(s): 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6
SOL(s): VS.1, USI.1,USI.9, VUS.1, VUS.7a
Era Explorations: The Great Depression (available as outreach)
Identify the effects of the Great Depression in Richmond, the economics and programs of the time and how they resonate today.
Program Type: school programGrade(s): 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6
SOL(s): USII.1e,USII.6d, USII.7a, VUS.10b
Era Explorations: WWII Homefront (available as outreach or virtual)
Examine the WWII home front including women in the workforce, rationing and the role of propaganda.
Program Type: school programGrade(s): 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6
SOL(s): USII.1, USII.7
Era Explorations: Segregation/ Integration (available as outreach or virtual!)
Explore the realities of Jim Crow and the segregation and integration eras in the Greater Richmond area and the figures and disputes that shaped national change.
Program Type: school programGrade(s): 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6
SOL(s): USII.4c, USII.7b, USII.9a, VUS.8d, VUS.13c
Ancients in the Neighborhood Walking Tour
On this walking tour through Richmond’s Court End neighborhood, students explore Richmond architecture influenced by Egypt, Greece and Ancient Rome.
Program Type: school walking tourGrade(s): 5, 4, 3
SOL(s): 3.1a,b,e,g, 3.3, 3.5, 3.13, VS.4c, 3, VS.6b
