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Using Cleveland as a Resource

Themes which Trolley Tours can present for Grades 1-12:

What makes a City? (Grades 1-4)
Bridges of Cleveland (Grades 1-12) Science, Math, Social Studies
Art & Architecture Tours (Grades 4-12)
Architecture with an emphasis on Greek & Roman forms (Grades 3-12)
Public Art Tour (Grades 4-12)
History & Sculpture at Lake View Cemetery (Grades 4-12)
Diversity through Food & Ethnic Markets (Grades 4-12)
for Language, Social Studies
School to Work (Grades 10-12) Looking at Downtown as a place to work & live.

Suggestions to make every tour a successful one for you & your students:

  1. Make your tour reservation early in the year or before your school year ends!
  2. Enlist parents to come along as chaperones!
  3. Know the directions to our station in the Flats in Cleveland.
  4. Give students word lists, bingo cards or the Trolley Quiz so that places and concepts can be checked off when heard and seen.
  5. Have children work in teams before the tour to do research on places they may see so that the class can recognize and be familiar with parts of the tour.
  6. Let children research Cleveland firsts - things our city pioneered!
  7. Have younger students draw pictures of things they remember from the tour.
  8. Older students can take pictures with disposable cameras to augment any essays they might write about their adventure. Group pictures are always fun!
  9. History classes can do timelines of Cleveland history from 1796 forward.
  10. Art students can draw sites of interest from the tour.
  11. Business students can talk about the economics & job situation of Cleveland.
  12. Language and social studies students can go to ethnic markets to hear and see other cultures with some advance study about foods from other cultures and then look for them. There are more then 90 ethnic groups in our city!
  13. Science students can look at bridges and try to build a model of one of the bridges they may have seen and why we have more than 20 bridges in downtown!