Offers school outreach programs with hands-on activities and storytelling providing insight to Ohio history. A River Through Time program provides information on how the landscape of Ohio developed from the ice-age and various cultures of the Paleo Indians, Mound Builders, and Woodland Indians. Towpath to the Past program offers information, photos, artifacts and a working model of a canal lock to highlight the creation of the Ohio and Erie Canal and its impact on the social and economic growth of the City of Akron, the County of Summit, and the State of Ohio.

Historic Discovery Trunks are self-contained footlockers filled with artifacts, photos, memorabilia, and classroom activities. Themes include: - #1 Akron Over There: Akron's "B" Battery Fights in WWII. - #2 The Victorian Women: The "Ideal" American Woman at the Turn of the Century. - #3 Send No Money: The Creation of the American Consumer. - #4 Lighter Than Air: Akron's Airship Industry. - #5 A Visit to the Mansion: A Preview of the Perkins Stone Mansion. - #6 In Search of A Dream: African-American Migration to Akron from 1910-1930. - #7 The Age of Aquarius: Life in the Tumultuous 1960's. - #8 Special Canal Trunk. - #9 John Brown, Slavery, Abolition and the Underground Railroad. - #10 Heart and Brain Health commemorating Akron General's 100th anniversary