The Gettysburg battlefield is one of our nation's greatest classrooms. Its lessons of sacrifice, visionary leadership and reconciliation have educational value that resonates around the world.
To help ensure that the lessons of Gettysburg reach the widest audience possible, we're supporting the Ford Education Center at the Gettysburg National Battlefield. When it's completed, the Ford Education Center will be the heart of the new Museum and Visitor Center's educational program.
Ford Education Center
The Ford Education Center will provide visitors and students with a better understanding of the Battle of Gettysburg within the context of the Civil War and explore why these events remain so relevant today.
Through onsite activities, distance learning and web-based programming, the Education Center will reach more than 2 million onsite visitors, including 200,000 students in school groups, and 15 million offsite students each year.
The Ford Education Center will consist of two state-of-the-art indoor educational resource centers and three outdoor classrooms surrounding the Museum, the Visitor Center and the Educational Complex.
Engaging Students
The Education Center will engage students onsite and nationwide through interactive multimedia experiences, offering instant access to a multitude of curriculum-based resources and historical databases. It will support satellite broadcasts to a projected audience of 30 million students, web-based "electronic field trips," an educational website, the Traveling Trunk Program (which lends reproductions of personal effects of a typical Civil War soldier, along with teachers' guides and curricula, to schools nationwide) and other nationwide distance-learning initiatives.
The Ford Education Center is made possible by Ford Motor Company Fund & Community Services.
