School Programs Brochure 2016-2017

PROGRAMS AND SERVICES

FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS 2016 − 2017

Featuring educational field experiences, pre-trip materials, professional development opportunities, transportation subsidies, and a new Teacher-in-Residence program

Free or Reduced Admission for School Groups Often schools pass on the cost of field trip admission to students. With 62% of Oklahoma students receiving free or reduced lunches admission cost can be a large hurdle.

The Museum may be able to provide free or greatly reduced admission for Oklahoma schoolchildren in grades K-12, including public, private, charter, or home school groups. One chaperone for every seven students is admitted complimentary.

PROGRAMS AND SERVICES FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS 2016 – 2017 Ignite your students’ curiosity and enhance your classroom curriculum with one of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s interactive programs.

Engage students through hands-on activities and lively, thought-provoking conversations. Integrate art across the curriculum!

We invite you to visit, and we know that resources are scarce.

Generous community partners enable the Museum to subsidize school bus transportation and waive or reduce admission!

Our programs align with select curriculum goals for Oklahoma history and geography, United States regional history and geography, and the impact of Europeans on Native Americans and their culture. We support Oklahoma Academic Standards, Process and Literacy Skills (PALS), and Content Standards (CS) in the arts and social studies for each elementary level art education field trip program, and incorporate curriculum strands for presenting, responding, creating, and connecting.

Browse the variety of options and make your reservations at least three weeks in advance.

HOW TO SCHEDULE YOUR VISIT

Booking now! Reservations are required for all group visits and are processed on a first-come, first-served basis. Admission fees, if applicable, are payable on the day of your visit.

PHONE 1 Call the Museum’s Program Educator, Monday – Friday

at (405) 478-2250 ext. 264, three weeks in advance of

your desired date and time.

ONLINE 2 www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/schooltours ON-SITE 3 Register in person by speaking with a Visitor Services

Assistant in the Museum Lobby, Monday – Friday,

10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

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Standard admission rates can be found here Contact us at (405) 478-2250 ext. 264 about free or reduced admission.

Transportation Reimbursement for School Groups Admission is not the only cost barrier for school groups visiting the Museum. Field trips have been eliminated or severely reduced by schools due to transportation costs. Even if schools are able to afford admission fees, they may not be able to overcome the cost of bus transportation. Private funding helps the Museum assist schools with transportation costs. Currently, $150 pays for up to a four-hour field trip on a large bus that can accommodate 40 – 50 students. The impact of this funding can be immense.

Where Can We Eat Lunch?

Our Lunch Pavilion is available for schools bringing sack lunches. A reservation for this space is required when scheduling your visit. Groups without a reservation are not guaranteed a space to eat. Lunches must be unloaded at the time of arrival and placed on the provided lunch carts.

Museum staff will transport the lunch carts to the Pavilion.

Lunch periods are 30 minutes in length. After eating, we ask you to dispose of any leftovers and place all remaining items on the carts. Lunch carts will be returned to the front entrance by Museum staff to be loaded by the school. Food (including gum and candy) and drinks are prohibited in the galleries. There are no vending machines in the Lunch Pavilion. Any food or drink must be provided by the group.

The Museum Grill can prepare lunch for your group (assorted sandwich trays); to make arrangements, call the Museum’s Visitor Services Coordinator at (405) 478-2250 ext. 241. The Museum Grill is open Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., Sunday Noon – 3:00 p.m. and closed on Monday.

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum 1700 Northeast 63rd Street • Oklahoma City, OK 73111 www.nationalcowboymuseum.org Hours: Monday – Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Sunday, Noon – 5:00 p.m.

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SCHOOL PROGRAMS & TOURS

SCHOOL PROGRAMS & TOURS COWBOY Characterized as the determined settler and the quintessential laborer on horseback, these are two celebrated and iconic figures in Western American history and lore. In the mid-tolate 19th centuries one of every three cowboys was Mexican or African-American. Life on the range gradually changed as barbed wire closed open spaces and railroads began to crisscross the land. Learn about tools of the trade through the equipment, clothing, and trades of cowboys working the land.

Arthur and Shifra Silberman Gallery of Native American Art

FIELD EXPERIENCES LED BY MUSEUM STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS MAJESTY & INSPIRATION Before it was the “West” this land was home to millions.

Focusing on the grandeur of the land and what makes it unique to the West, students will explore Native American artistic traditions, rich with symbolism, that often relate stories important to a particular tribe or culture. Discover the Native American relationship to place, from pre-contact with Europeans to the present-day life-ways impacted by harvest cycles, seasonal celebrations, rites of passage, and relationships to the land and the animals.

Native American Lifestyle (Grades K-1): Learn about traditional Native American garments and the use of animal skins. Use beads to make a necklace which may be taken home. Visit the galleries to view Native American art and artifacts. [The Arts 2.1, 4:1-3, Social Studies K—PALS 3:A.2, CS 2:3, CS 3:4, CS 4:3; First Grade—CS 4:1, CS 4:4] Native American Lifestyle (Grade 2): Study basic design elements used by Native Americans and learn about the importance of the bison to Plains Indians. Handle a buffalo skin and assemble a “parfleche,” or container, used by Native people to store food, medicine, clothing, personal belongings, or other sacred materials. Visit the galleries to view Native American art and artifacts. [The Arts 2:1, 4:1-3; Social Studies PALS 3:A.2-3]

Cowboy Adventure (Grades Pre-K-1): Try on American cowboy clothing. All students tie bandanas around their necks that they get to take home. A visit to the American Cowboy Gallery to view a “bunkhouse” enhances students’ understanding of how cowboys lived in the West.

Explore the galleries to view art and artifacts that relate to the cowboy. [The Arts 2:1, 4:1-3; Social Studies Pre-K—CS 2:3, CS 3:4, CS 4:3; K—PALS 3:A.2, CS 2:3, CS 3:4, CS 4:3; First Grade—CS 4:1] Cowboy Lifestyle (Grade 2): Learn basic information about cowboy clothing and the many jobs of a cowboy.

Visit the American Cowboy Gallery to view the chuck wagon and see camp equipment before venturing into the Atherton Gallery to view works of art depicting the American cowboy. [The Arts 2:1, 4:1-3; Social Studies PALS 3:A.2-3, CS 4:4] Cowboy Cold Branding Program (Grades 3-4): Discover the importance of branding cattle and its purposes. Read and recognize brands. Design your own brand, transfer the design onto a piece of leather that can be worn as a necklace, and visit the American Cowboy Gallery to view materials of cowboy culture and actual branding irons used in the West. To round out the experience, visit the galleries that showcase significant artwork illustrating cowboys working with cattle. [The Arts 2:1, 4:1-3; Social Studies Grade 3—PALS 3:A.3, CS 4:6; Grade 4—PALS 3:A.3, CS 1:2.D, CS 1:4-5, CS 2:1-2] Cowboy Hot Branding Program (Grades 3-6): De-

Native American Pictographs (Grades 3-4): Learn about Native American symbolism by creating a pictograph story on a “buffalo hide” paper cutout. Share stories with classmates, then take them home to share with family.

Explore the galleries to look for images of Native American symbolism in both the art and artifacts. [The Arts 2:1, 3:2, 4:1-3. Social Studies Grade 3—PALS 3:A.3, CS 3:2A-B, CS 4:3; Grade 4—PALS 3:A.3] DEFINING THE WEST: THE FRONTIERSMAN & THE

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SCHOOL PROGRAMS & TOURS

Weather In The West

code brand markings from actual branding irons used in the West. Design your own brand on a piece of leather as a memento. After proper safety instructions are given, take part in an actual branding exercise using a plywood steer. Visit the galleries to view works of art that illustrate cowboys working with and branding cattle, and discover the American Cowboy Gallery to investigate the development of ranching traditions in the United States and the different types of branding irons used in the cattle industry. (Branding is dependent on weather conditions.)

[The Arts 4:1-3; Social Studies Grade 3—PALS 3:A.3, CS 4:6; Grade 4—PALS 3:A.3, CS 1:2.D, CS 1:4-5, CS 2:1-2] EXPLORATION & SETTLEMENT When the frontier began to be populated by rugged individuals of many nationalities and objectives, the West grew into territories and later states, becoming divided, distributed, and cultivated by an emergence of new people, cultures, and beliefs. Student explorers discover the past by comparing it to the present and the future. They relive the turn-of-the-century in Prosperity Junction, a recreated Western Town that features a livery, bank, print shop, saloon, blacksmith shop, and one-room school house.

Oklahoma Flag and History (Grade 3): Explore the history of the Oklahoma state flag and its symbolism.

Make a replica flag on a piece of leather to take home.

Visit the galleries to view paintings and artifacts relating to Oklahoma’s settlement and early statehood. [The Arts 3:2, 4:1-3; Social Studies PALS 3:A.3, CS 1:3, CS 3:2.A-B, CS 4:3, 5-6, 8, 11]

One-Room School House (Grades K-6): Before

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computers, mobile apps, and iPads, a teacher provided lessons in math, spelling, and readings from McGuffey’s Readers. Students use slates and chalk to complete their lessons and are expected to follow 1905 rules of conduct.

Compare this approach with ways kids learn today and invent ideas about how kids will learn in the future. [The Arts 4:1-3, Social Studies: various standards based on the grade level participating.]

TRANSFORMATIONS & IMPACT Western habitats have changed or disappeared and much of the landscape has been altered for settlement, mined for its vast resources, cultivated, and developed. Is the West a place to be dominated or a vanishing sanctuary to be protected and nurtured? What are the growing and changing priorities and needs of the region? What is the West to us now? Investigate the connection between Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) and the arts.

Weather in the West (Grades K-4): Learn how the often brutal environment of the West with its dramatic blizzards, violent thunder storms, floods, droughts, tornadoes, and hurricanes has shaped, and continues to shape, the history of the American West. Student weather scouts explore the galleries to focus on the way the rugged weather conditions of the Western United States influenced Western artists and culture. [Science K-ESS2-1, K-ESS2-2, K-ESS3-2, #-ESS202, 4-ESS1-1; W4.9, RI.4.7] Teacher-Directed Museum Visits Think about the Museum as an extension of your classroom.

Create your own lessons, scavenger hunts, or self-guided field experiences. When you schedule your visit, we can provide you with suggestions.

Looking for Something Different?

SCHOOL PROGRAMS & TOURS Call us for a curriculum consultation and we will work together to develop a special program that meets your needs.

Free After School Art Program Our After School Art Program can be tailored to any level of elementary students. Activities include visits to the Museum’s galleries with related art projects and guest speakers/performers.

Activities may include printmaking, weaving, flute making, soap carving/sculpting, roping, working in clay, watercolor painting, and experiencing a one-room school house. Programming will meet select Oklahoma Priority Academic Student Skills standards, depending on programs, activities, and your needs.

The Museum may be able to reimburse transportation costs.

Offered on multiple days each week for four weeks, or once a week, if this best fits your school.

Fall Sessions: September 12 - November 18, 2016 Winter Sessions: January 9 - March 31, 2017 Spring Sessions: April 10 - May 26, 2017 Drop in Activities - Perfect for Homeschoolers During fall and spring break weeks for Oklahoma City and surrounding schools, drop by and participate in family-friendly activities. Create a different make-and-take activity each day, while supplies last. Free to Museum members and free with Museum admission. 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

The fall 2016 sessions focus on the Museum’s exhibition, Power and Prestige: Headdresses of the American Plains.

October 10 - Native American Dance Troop Performances Noon and 2:00 p.m. Grab a front row seat for these special performances and explore hands-on artifacts to learn about Native American lifeways.

October 11 - Beadwork Techniques: Loom your own Beadwork Bracelet Explore detailed beading and then we’ll show you how to make your own creation.

October 12 - Ledger Art and Battle Scenes

Prosperity Junction

See examples of this special way of communicating, then draw powerful stories of your own.

October 13 - Hide Painting and Bonnet Imagery Make a hide painting using traditional feather and bonnet imagery.

The spring 2017 sessions connect with different temporary exhibitions on view in the galleries.

March 13 - Bandanna Decorating Decorate your very own bandanna in honor of the Museum’s new exhibit, A Yard of Turkey Red: The Western Bandanna.

March 14 - Fun with Illustration Become a junior illustrator by making your own paperback book cover, inspired by the exhibit, The Artistry of the Western Paperback.

March 15 - Threadwork Bracelets Learn the art of wrapping thread seen in the exhibit, Power and Prestige: Headdresses of the American Plains.

March 16 - Paisley Pop Art Learn about the origins of the decorative element seen on most contemporary bandannas and design your own paisley canvas pop art, based on the exhibit, A Yard of Turkey Red: The Western Bandanna.

March 17 - Hollywood Hunt Join us for a special screening of The Cowboys starring John Wayne Screening times: 10:00 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.

After the film, partake in a scavenger hunt that takes families through the temporary exhibit Hollywood and the American West and the Museum’s Western Performers Gallery to explore the classic icons Western films.

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FEATURED COLLECTIONS & EXHIBITIONS

Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount) and Elam Ferguson (Common) from Hell on Wheels.

Photo Credit Frank Ockenfels / AMC

EXHIBITIONS The National Cowboy Western & Heritage Museum is America’s premier institution of Western history, art, and culture. Founded in 1955, the Museum collects, preserves, and exhibits an internationally renowned collection of Western art and artifacts while sponsoring dynamic educational programs to stimulate interest in the enduring legacy of our American West. More than 10 million visitors from around the world have gained better understanding of the West − a region and a history that permeates our national culture.

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum features a superb collection of classic and contemporary Western art, including works by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, as well as sculptor James Earle Fraser’s magnificent work, The End of the Trail. The exhibition wing houses a turn-of-the-century town and interactive history galleries that focus on the American cowboy, rodeos, Native American culture, Victorian firearms, and frontier military and Western performers. Outside, beautifully landscaped gardens flank the Children’s Cowboy Corral, an interactive children’s space.

From fine art, pop culture, and firearms to Native American objects, historical cowboy gear, shopping and dining, the Museum tells America’s story as it unfolds across the West.

Mission Statement The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum preserves and interprets the evolving history and cultures of the American West for the education and enrichment of its diverse audiences of adults and children.

Lowell Ellsworth Smith: My Theology of Painting

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Through July 9, 2017 Discover one artist’s personal process and approach through watercolor studies and the artist’s own words and observations. The exhibition introduces the man, his methods, and his belief in the power and potential of creative energy.

He lived for the moment and painted what he saw and as importantly, what he felt, leaving something of himself in each of his works.

Power and Prestige: Headdresses of the American Plains August 26, 2016 – May 14, 2017 War bonnets are an iconic image of the American West, yet the truth behind these emblematic items is more complex than the name would indicate. Going back centuries, feather headdresses played a formalized role in both conflict and ritual with large and subtle variants in style, use, and design. This exhibit explores the history and development of the Native American headdresses of different styles, ledger art, and photographs.

Power and Prestige Children’s Gallery February 4 - May 14, 2017 Power and Prestige: Headdresses of the American Plains is the foundation for much of the Museum’s Native American school programs in the spring of 2017. Explore a rich culture focusing on the universal concepts of community, diversity, artistry, respect, bravery, and pageantry. The adjacent Children’s Gallery invites learners into the culture and history of Native Americans through dramatic scenes and stories, a mapping journey, a story station reading area, make-and-take projects at these activity areas:

The Mystery of Heather the Feather

FEATURED COLLECTIONS & EXHIBITIONS Learning Outcome: Understand how to “read” an artifact.

Ledger Art Maker Station Learning Outcome: Participants will explore ledger art and make up stories of their own using concepts that kids care about today.

De-Coding Pictographs Learning Outcome: Discover Native American symbolism by creating a pictograph story on a “buffalo hide” paper cutout; share stories with others and take them home.

Mapping a Battle: Tribes of the Great Plains Culture Group Learning Outcome: Discover Plains Indians comumnities on a map and understand similarities and differences among them.

October 14 – December 31, 2016 The Traditional Cowboy Arts Association (TCAA) is dedicated to preserving and promoting the skills of saddlemaking, bit and spur making, silversmithing, and rawhide braiding and the role of these traditional crafts in the cowboy culture of the North American West. Visit this gallery before or after any of the Museum’s cowboy programs.

Small Works, Great Wonders Winter Art Sale November 5 – December 31, 2016 Art students will love this exhibition! Drawings, paintings, sculptures, and mixed media by leading contemporary artists working in a small format is sure to encourage creative ideas and experimentation.

Story Station Learning Outcome: Use the arts to ignite creativity and imagination.

Feel & Find Station Learning Outcome: Incorporate the sense of touch to understand the materials used in constructing headdresses.

Gallery Programs: Circle of Stories Learning Outcome: Develop a community of readers; harness the power of storytelling.

Hell on Wheels: Uniting a Nation by Rail August 20 – October 23, 2016 The labor force that built the first transcontinental railroad reflected the colorful diversity of the American West in the 1860s. This exhibition portrays that dynamic era, in part, through the display of wardrobes worn on the AMC series Hell on Wheels, 2011-2016, depicting the legions of railroad workers including Chinese, Irish, Mormon, and former enslaved individuals. This exhibition makes a poignant statement about the kaleidoscope of cultures present in the American West.

Hot Tip! Challenge older students with thought-provoking research projects based on this TV series and the expansion of the American West. The power of TV and Museum objects enlivens your curriculum in ways no textbook can do alone.

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibition October 14 – November 27, 2016 The Cowboy Artists of America (CAA) are the vanguard of the Western art revival that began in the 1960s, and they continue to set the mark for those who carry on the legacy today.

Hot Tip! Visit this gallery before or after any of the Museum’s cowboy programs, or change your venue to spark creativity. Bring students to the Museum to sketch outdoors on our grounds or from works in this exhibition.

Traditional Cowboy Arts Association Exhibition

The Artistry of the Western Paperback

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FEATURED COLLECTIONS & EXHIBITIONS

Eagle Feather Headdress, Blackfoot Nation, attributed, ca. 1910, (1991.01.0495)

January 21 – May 14, 2017 The imagery of the American cowboy has been presented in a variety of ways. Whatever the circumstance of the individual, illustrators of Western paperback books had to create the stirring, and at times violent, representations of these characters. Illustrators depicted the cowboy as the struggling hero trying to correct the injustices of the West, or as the rescuer of the beautiful damsel in distress. Sometimes, the cowboy was portrayed as the desperate outlaw who either turned his bad man ways around, or succumbed to the dark realms that rest deep in his heart.

Hot Tip! Enhance your English-Language Arts curriculum with these illustrated book covers that can inspire narrative or expository writing assignments.

Hollywood and the American West February 3 – May 14, 2017 Candid, intimate, and raw, these photographs showcase private access to the greatest movie stars, musicians, and directors of all times. Subjects include John Wayne, Natalie

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Wood, Ann Margaret, John Ford, Paul Newman, Kirk Douglas, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Stewart, Frank Sinatra, Kevin Costner, Madeline Stowe, and more.

A Yard of Turkey Red: The Western Bandanna February 3 – May 14, 2017 Many a 19th-century cowboy bought a square yard of Turkey red cloth at the local mercantile and proudly tied it around his neck. The bright red material derived its name from the Turkish process of dying cotton fabric with the root of the rubia plant. A rare collection of period bandannas provides students a glimpse of authentic neckwear once sought after by young horsemen on the range and later popularized in Western fiction.

Hot Tips! (1) Find the perfect intersection of math and design. Explore pattern, measuring, spacing, and problem solving. Supplement any of our cowboy programs with a visit to this gallery; (2) Bandannas can help you teach history.

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt’s 1912 presidential campaign utilized a bandanna and cowboy hat imagery to promote his persona as a rugged cattleman and Rough Rider.

TEACHER RESOURCES

TEACHER RESOURCES

Back to School Bash for Educators Tuesday, August 30, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Location: Oklahoma History Center, across the street from the Governor’s mansion, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, Oklahoma City, OK 73105.

Join the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and other metro area museums to celebrate the beginning of the new school year focusing on all that museums have to offer teachers and their families. Staff will be on hand to answer questions about field trips, free bus transportation, trunks, and special events. Discover traveling trunks on display for handson interaction, pick up curricula materials, and meet living history characters. Door prizes will be awarded throughout the night, with teacher identification. Registration is not required.

For more information about the event, please contact education@okhistory.org or (405) 522-3602.

20% discount on educational materials purchased in The Museum Store that day • Early opportunity to schedule a Museum visit for up to 60 students (two classes) • Complimentary lunch at The Museum Grill To register, click here: www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/teacherworkshop Power and Prestige Children’s Gallery You’re invited! Opening Reception for Teachers and Families Saturday, February 4, 2017 10:00 a.m. - Noon Be among the first to experience this new exhibition. Enjoy refreshments. Pick up curriculum resources, hear Native American storytellers, schedule field trips, and learn about our stipends for bus transportation and reduced or free admission.

Traveling School Trunks (Grades K-6)

Power and Prestige: Teaching the Headdresses of the American Plains Thursday, September 22, 2016 Wednesday, February 22, 2017 8:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. for districts beyond 20 miles of the Museum.

Location: National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum The Museum is able to cover the district’s costs for substitute teachers on the day of this workshop.

A free K-12 Teacher Professional Development Opportunity at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Collaboration with the College of Education and Professional Studies, University of Central Oklahoma. Up to 30 participants will: • Meet directly with experts and curators about the history and development of the Native American bonnet, ledger art, and primary source photographs from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum permanent collections, as well as headdresses from the Gilcrease Museum and the Oklahoma History Center • Explore FREE engaging and standards-based teaching resources • Provide input for a special children’s gallery connected to this exhibition • Schedule a subsidized student field trip to the Museum free of charge Participating teachers receive: • One paid substitute teacher while attending the workshop • Up to $150 bus transportation subsidy paid to your district for a student field trip • Free Museum admission for the group • A “Partner Pass” for one-time, free admission per teacher and one guest in advance of your visit, plus a

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TEACHER RESOURCES Show your valid school district I.D. and enjoy ½ off regular admission rates.

Museum Hours: Monday – Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Sunday, Noon – 5:00 p.m.

Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day Admissions: Adults $12.50 Seniors (62+) $9.75 Student with valid ID $9.75 There is no admission charge to visit and shop at The Museum Store or to eat at The Museum Grill.

Partner Pass (New!) Teachers and a guest are encouraged to visit the Museum free of charge with a special one-day “Partner Pass.” Teachers can use it in advance of their scheduled field experience. Get to know the Museum and enjoy a special 20% teacher discount on educational resources in The Museum Store. The Partner Pass will be available to download with confirmed group reservations.

Summer Teacher-in-Residence Program (New!) The inaugural Teacher-in-Residence Program is an extended professional development opportunity for two educators from area K-12 schools to learn about the resources and educational materials available through the Museum and to create new resources for use by other teachers.

Educators selected for the Teacher in Residence Program will:

Arthur and Shifra Silberman Gallery of Native American Art

Traveling trunks are pre- or post-visit learning opportunities that focus on the American cowboy, Plains Indian, or Oklahoma history. Teachers can tailor their program to accommodate any grade level. Items in the trunks include artifacts, tools, clothing, images of artwork from the Museum’s collection, as well as story books to share with students. A notebook of related resources provide teachers with additional teaching material. Use the contents of our trunks to meet Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies on various class levels. The traveling education trunks are free of charge to pick up or drop off.

Reserve yours here or contact the Museum’s Program Educator at (405) 478-225 ext. 264.

Reduced Admission for Educators

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TEACHER RESOURCES

• Receive a summer stipend of $25/hour for up to 16 hours of residency per week for six weeks during the summer of 2017, not to exceed $2,400 per residency • Engage in current thinking about object-oriented and place-based inquiry • Explore the Museum’s collections on view in the galleries, online, and in the Museum’s extensive archives and library • Develop at least one lesson plan or a unit based on primary sources to be used in your classroom or school • Assist with one on-going Museum project during the residency, and • Increase your understanding of museums as places for project-based student activities The emphasis of this program is to link the Museum with

teachers from schools with underserved student populations in urban and rural school districts. Spend most of your time engaging with the Museum’s collections and developing lesson plans to use in your classroom and in the Museum with students. Present your projects to your own students, other teachers, and to a wider education audience.

Apply online by March 1, 2017 here

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PROGRAMS AND SERVICES FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS 2016 − 2017

1700 Northeast 63rd Street Oklahoma City, OK 73111 www.nationalcowboymuseum.org (405) 478-2250

Museum Partners: Devon Energy Corp. • E.L. & Thelma Gaylord Foundation

The Museum’s programs and services for teachers and students are made possible through the generosity of BNSF Railway Foundation, Bank of America, BancFirst, Union Pacific Foundation, Allied Arts, and Mr. Lee R. Riley. Funding for Power and Prestige: Headdresses of the American Plains and related student programs is provided, in part, by a grant from the Oklahoma Humanities Council (OHC) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibitions and program do not necessarily represent those of OHC or NEH.

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