Teaching Resources

 Thank you for your interest in using Carpenters' Hall as a learning tool! If you plan on visiting the building with your students (or if you're just thinking of using us in your lesson plans) please consider using the materials provided on our website!

Below, you’ll find a video tour of Carpenters’ Hall that was originally created during the 1990s to play inside our museum space to audiences of incoming visitors. With the help of Drexel University Archives, we’ve had the video digitized to that it might serve as a resource to educators and curious minds across the world.

The video stars Ralph Archibald, a late, great Philadelphia-area Benjamin Franklin interpreter who was much beloved here in Old City.

We hope you enjoy the video!

Educational Materials

These three resources have been prepared to aid in teaching with The Storm in a classroom setting. Click on the documents below to download them as PDFs.  

Scavenger Hunt

Carpenters’ Hall Volunteer, Caroline Safreed, has prepared an extensive scavenger hunt for parents and teachers to administer to students. The scavenger hunt below has been crafted to incorporate different topic areas and difficulty ratings for its questions. As such, we hope that it will find use with students who express a variety of different interests and are of various grade levels.

More on The Storm

For more information about The Storm or about educational materials pertaining to other episodes of Philadelphia: The Great Experiment. Please contact:

Amy Cohen
Director of Education
History Making Productions
amyc@historymakingproductions.com