Distance Learning

The Ward Melville Heritage Organization is proud to offer state-of-the-art technology by featuring Distance Learning programs via video-conferencing in Coastal Ecology, History and Literacy.

All programs are aligned to National and New York State Learning Standards and can be tailored to appropriate age levels.

The quality educational programs are taught by qualified instructors and are reimbursable through the Nassau and Suffolk BOCES Arts-In-Education Program.

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	Running Scared, Running Free: Escape to the Promise Land The Ward Melville Heritage Organization (WMHO) is proud to present its newest distance learning program utilizing two-way video conferencing that allows students to 'travel back in time'. The distance learning program will engage students in an interactive discussion with an instructor who will portray a 'conductor' on the Underground Railroad. Our trained instructor will guide your students through an interactive discussion illustrating the divide in the country over the issue of slavery, as well as the function of the Underground Railroad. Sign Up Now!
	Electronic Explorations: The Salt Marsh Ecosystem Students who participate in this program can study a marine environment without ever leaving the classroom. This distance learning program utilizes two-way video conferencing and wireless technology to enable students outside our locale to "visit" and study the temperate salt marsh. Sign Up Now!!
	First Long Islanders: Original Inhabitants Students 'travel back in time' and explore how Native Americans used the environment in their everyday lives. Our trained instructor will guide your students through an interactive discussion focusing on available environmental resources and family roles within this Algonquian culture.Sign Up Now!!
	Windows Through Time: Journals of American Revolutionary War Spies! This distance learning program is based upon the actual workings of the Setauket Spy Ring (1778) during the American Revolutionary War. Setauket, a little town on the north shore of Long Island, is where the Setauket Spy Ring operated by delivering secret messages to General George Washington about the covert operations of the Redcoats. Using invisible writing, secret codes and ciphers, this spy ring was never found out by the British, in fact, its members were kept secret for over one hundred fifty years! Join our instructor who will bring your class back to colonial times and engage your students in both literacy and history with Windows Through Time: Journals of American Revolutionary War Spies!! Sign Up Now!!