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Traveling Classroom Trunks
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| All trunks come with reference materials for teacher and/or student use. |
Beginning in Fall 2005, the Powers Museum will have the following classroom trunks available for use by teachers and home school groups. Please e-mail or call (417-358-2667) the museum for details on their use.
More trunks will be offered in the future, so keep checking back for additions.
The initial twelve trunks were created by teacher Elisa White and museum Director/Curator Michele Hansford, and were made possible by an equipment grant to the Powers Museum through the Southwest Center for Educational Excellence's Teaching American History Grant (year 3) given to the local grant's Humanities Partners (the museum has been a partner for all three years of the program). The TAH grant was made possible by the U S Department of Education.
New Museum Education Coordinator Marti Pittman has found lesson plans to go with former media and exhibit materials of the Powers Museum that cover elementary, junior high and high school levels. Teachers are welcome to preview trunks and all support materials at the Powers Museum by appointment.
E-mail all requests and questions to the Powers Museum and please allow enough time for delivery to schools (keeping in mind that emails may not be monitored on Sundays or Mondays).
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| Example of mini-exhibit materials included in Commercial Architecture trunk — card on businesses at 100 E 4th through the years. |
Trunk Themes Available NOW:
• Carthage in 1895 with sub-theme of Jasper County Courthouse
• WW I Homefront in Carthage (can be used for other locations, too)
• WW II Homefront in Carthage (can be used for other locations, too)
• Re-building Carthage (post-Civil War to early 1880s) with focus on early industries
• Carthage Stone Industry with sub-theme of Missouri State Capitol (1913–17)
• Carthage Architecture through the Decades — Residential
• Carthage Architecture through the Decades — Commercial (primarily buildings around the square)
• Famous Carthaginians
• Women's History through Biography (Carthage, Missouri and National)
• Leisure Time Activities (1890s–1920s)
• Transportation in Southwest Missouri (Trails, Trains, Trolleys)
• Highways Through Carthage featuring Highway 66 and early auto trails (Jefferson & Ozarks Trail)
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| All trunks come with the new history guide booklet developed by the Carthage Visitors & Convention Bureau with assistance from the Powers Museum. |
Other Trunks in the Works for 2006-07
• History of the Maple Leaf Festival
• R. Marlin Perkins
• Carthage in 1905
• Carthage Schools & School Life (including local colleges)
• Carthage in the 1920s
• Ozark Playgrounds Association & Tourism with sub-theme of Harold Bell Wright (& correspondence with Marian Wright Powers)
• Carthage in the 1930s with sub-theme of public works projects especially Municipal Park
• Fashion through the Decades with sub-theme of textile industry in Carthage
• What Does a Museum Curator Do?
• What Does an Archivist Do?
• Civil War
• Lewis & Clark Expedition
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