Education

• Introduction

Services

• Introduction
• Interpretive tours
  • Student audio tours
  • Audio Tour Map
  • Guidelines for School Group Reservation and Visitation
  • Class Behavior Report Card
  • Post-Visit Activity
• Video Conferencing
• Activity booklets
• Professional Development
• Pennies for Pearl Harbor

Resources

• Introduction
• Media Gallery

Links

• National Park Service - USS Arizona Memorial
• National Park Service -War in the Pacific National Historical Park
• National Park Service - American Memorial Park
• National Park Service - Kalaupapa National Historical Park

 

Arizona Memorial Museum Association

Student Audio Tour

The Arizona Memorial Museum Association (AMMA) has joined with world-renowned museum audio tour specialist Antenna Audio to provide a state-of-the-art interpretive experience at the USS Arizona Memorial. With hand-held audio players using random-access digital technology, students will hear a descriptive narration accompanied by period music, quotes from Pearl Harbor Survivors and sound effects that actively involve them in the events that changed history. The tour provides 60 minutes of in-depth historical interpretation through the museum, the wayside exhibits, and on the Memorial itself.

Audio tours are available for $5 fee per MP3 player. For student groups only, splitters are available that allow two headsets to be plugged into one MP3 player, bringing the cost-per-student down to $2.50. Teachers and adult chaperones will be provided with complimentary audio tours. Payment may be made on the day of the group's visit through cash, check, or purchase order. No credit cards, please.

For a brief sample of the audio tour, please click on the MP3 player below .

To schedule a group visit at the USS Arizona Memorial, contact:

Steve Kooiman, Education Specialist
Arizona Memorial Museum Association
1 Arizona Memorial Place
Honolulu, Hawaii 96816
Tel: 808-282-5082
Fax: 808-483-8608

Teachers who register for the interpretive tour can access a text version of the award-winning Audio Tour script to prepare their students more comprehensively for a visit to the USS Arizona Memorial. Antenna Audio, producer of the tour, and AMMA are making this valuable resource available free of charge. As teachers schedule their visit to the Arizona Memorial, the Education Specialist will provide a password in the pre-visit packet that will allow access to the PDF file.

Audio Tour script (Password protected)

Teachers may want to consult the audio tour site map to plan how they would like to direct their students through the museum and wayside exhibits. The random-access design of the program provides great flexibility, enabling teachers to prepare creatively to maximize the impact of the students’ visit to the Memorial.