School Outreach Program!

Museum teachers bring artifacts and enthusiasm to your classroom! Each program will engage your students as they learn from lively presentations of information and artifacts. In order to provide the best hands-on learning experience, these programs are scheduled for single classrooms.

And The Beat Goes On

Grade: Kindergarten
Take a trip around the world and experience the diversity of our musical heritage through song, dance, and playing ethnic musical instruments.

Dinosaurs!

Grades: 1-2
Join Dino Debbie, our Mesozoic tour guide, as she combines the most up-to-date facts with some humorous paleontology discoveries.

Art: It’s A Natural

Grade: 3
Discover four elements of art in images of our region’s natural scenery through this multi-media presentation.

Progress On The Prairie

Grade: 3-5
Farming is NOT boring! Learn the story of corn from its tiny beginnings to today’s 1,000 kernel ears. Handle amazing primitive tools.

Riding the Rails

Grades: 4-8
A costumed presenter reveals local railroad connections to the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, and the Orphan Train. Receive a FREE two-week rental of our Discovery Trunk of Regional History by booking this program.

Pyramids Along The Mississippi

Grades: 4 & Up
Is the Mississippi River the Nile of the West? Travel through time from hunter-gatherers to the Mound Builders, discovering our region’s prehistoric secrets.