Homeschool
Programs for the 2025–2026 School Year
Learn more about the state you love! The New Hampshire Historical Society offers several engaging programs for Granite State homeschoolers each year. Designed specifically for homeschool learners, these programs combine hands-on learning opportunities with access to the museum objects, documents, and photographs in the Society’s collections.Space is limited and advance registration is required.
Exploring New Hampshire: Granite State History for Homeschoolers
Recommended for ages 7 to 11
Dates: One Tuesday a month—September 23, October 21, November 18, and December 16, 2025
Time: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Our flagship “Exploring New Hampshire” program introduces homeschool learners to state history through a unit-study approach. With a small group of learners, participants will explore the Granite State’s history through stories, images, maps, crafts, games, and primary resources drawn from the Society’s collection of objects, manuscripts, photographs, and books. Each session will feature a welcome activity, a lesson on the theme, and a craft, game, or other hands-on activity for kids to apply what they’ve learned. We will also explore tie-ins to objects on display in the museum exhibitions. Takeaways include a curated list of resources about each topic and suggestions for extension activities. At the end of the program, children will have produced a portfolio of projects on New Hampshire history.
This program is recommended for children ages 7 to 11. Participants must be early or independent readers as many activities include reading and writing. The registration fee is $80 per child with a $10 sibling discount.
Redcoats and Rebels: Pick Your Path
Recommended for ages 9 to 12
Dates: One Thursday a month—October 23, November 20, and December 18, 2025
Time: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Join the New Hampshire Historical Society for this history class with a twist! Learners will pick their path through three events in New Hampshire leading up to the American Revolution, discovering from a first-person point of view why it wasn’t always so easy to choose sides in the journey from colony to country.
In this fast-paced class, learners will create their own characters and make a series of choices as they immerse themselves in New Hampshire’s fight for independence from Britain. Each in-person two-hour session focuses on a different event in New Hampshire during the period just before the outbreak of war. Weekly emails will provide learners with optional resources to help them conduct independent research and create materials to add to their character’s backstory.
This drop-off program is recommended for ages 9 to 12 and participants must be independent readers. A program on the American Revolution for more advanced learners will be offered in the winter and spring. The registration fee is $60 per learner with a $10 sibling discount.
How to Register
Full, nonrefundable payment must be made at the time of registration to secure your child’s place. Registrations will be processed in the order in which they are received.
Please note that the New Hampshire Historical Society is an approved provider for the State of New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Accounts program, but does not accept ClassWallet as a form of payment. Families should pay out of pocket and will then be provided with an itemized receipt, which they can use to apply for reimbursement from the Children’s Scholarship Fund New Hampshire.
For more information or to register, contact Visitor Services Coordinator Sonia Booth.
Contact
Sonia Booth
Visitor Services Coordinator
603-228-6688
sbooth@nhhistory.org