Feb 27, 2019 | Careers / Life Skills, History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Multicultural, Program, Science, Visual / Design Arts
Discover the history of African Americans with Kansas connections, a journey that travels through time and around the state. Learn about great African American history makers and their Kansas connections. Go from Kansas to Africa in the “Africa to Kansas” Core...
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Language Arts, Program, Visual / Design Arts
Discuss themes of personal, cultural, and national identity using artwork to generate conversation and inquiry. Artists give us a unique window on American life, reflecting the cultural, social, and political climate of the time in which they work. This tour will...
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Language Arts, Program, Visual / Design Arts
A look at the development of American art and the history of WAM’s founders and collection. This tour explores some of the major art movements and their practitioners. Topics include colonial portraiture, 19th-century landscape painting, American Impressionism,...
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Language Arts, Multicultural, Program, Visual / Design Arts
Come join us for exhibition tours of Mark Arts galleries. Teachers can lead their students through our various gallery spaces and encourage critical, conceptual and analytical skills through discussion and shared ideas about our exhibitions. Average tour is 40-60...
Feb 27, 2019 | Language Arts, Program, Science
Students in grades 9-12 are able to tour the Zoo’s Commissary and Oliver Animal Hospital. Groups are limited to 15 total people including students and teachers. All participants must wear closed-toe shoes. Tours involve a fair amount of walking. For every ten...
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Multicultural, Program, Visual / Design Arts
The Wichita Cottage and Magic City exhibits illustrate the settings and characters in Grasslands, Debra Seely's historical fiction novel for young readers. A teacher's guide is available online.
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Program, Science, Visual / Design Arts
Students learn the history behind the local aviation industry and how Wichita became known as The Air Capital. This tour includes a guided tour of the Spirit of Wichita exhibit as well as a film entitled Wichita, The Air Capital: The Early Years. (45 minutes)
Feb 27, 2019 | Language Arts, Program, Science, Theater
Expand your students’ understanding of a “bug’s life” by learning how they eat, move, and survive in our world. Your budding entomologists will also be able to identify this largest group of arthropods by recognizing their habitat and survival...
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Language Arts, Program, Theater
This is a full length verse translation/adaptation of Dante’s first book of his Divine Comedy – Inferno. Confronted by his fears and sins, in the figures of three wild beasts, Dante cannot make it up the mountain to the light (Heaven). As he flees down the...
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Music, Program
Music is very influential in the lives of children. Blues in the Schools can reach students in a way few other curriculums can. Historically, Kansas has played an important role in our nation's first pure musical (art) form.
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Music, Program, Science
Organ Crawl, the POPs video, is now available on DVD, and can stand alone as a teaching tool. This 12-minute visual has been used successfully all over the country. It complements the other teaching materials that prepare students for a visit to a real organ. The kit...
Feb 27, 2019 | Customized to Curriculum, History / Social Studies, Language Arts, Music, Program
The Wichita Blues Society is also eager to work with teachers on developing cross-curricular Blues in the Schools workshops and residencies.
Feb 27, 2019 | Careers / Life Skills, Customized to Curriculum, Emergent Literacy, Language Arts, Literary Arts, Program, Storytelling
Tours should be arranged no less than two weeks in advance. Neighborhood Branch Tours: Tour of Angelou Northeast, Linwood or Orchard Branch Library. (15-30 minutes) Neighborhood Branch Tours with Storytime: Tour of Angelou Northeast, Linwood or Orchard Branch Library...
Feb 27, 2019 | Careers / Life Skills, Customized to Curriculum, Emergent Literacy, Language Arts, Multicultural, Program, Storytelling
An outreach librarian can visit your school or other community events and provide any of the following services for early childhood and elementary-age children and their families: Library Presentation: Explanation of library resources and library card. Suitable for...
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Multicultural, Program, Visual / Design Arts
All guided school tours are free of charge. Tours have been carefully designed to follow the Kansas curricular standards. Resource packets and curricular standards for each tour are available on our website.
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Multicultural, Program, Visual / Design Arts
Students step back in time and explore an exhibit full of toys, clothing, and children's activities from the past as they compare and contrast their own daily lives to children living in early Wichita. This tour includes a guided lesson and also hands-on...
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Multicultural, Program, Visual / Design Arts
Students discover the early days of Wichita and its rapid growth from a vast prairie to a bustling city. This tour focuses on the early settlers and their interaction with the Native Americans and includes hands-on activities relating to Wichita Indian culture. (60...
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Multicultural, Program, Visual / Design Arts
Students tour the rooms of recreated Victorian house and learn about the design and function of the average 1890s home in Wichita. This tour includes an illustrated lecture, guided lesson, and hands-on kitchen activities. (60 minutes) A teacher's guide is...
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Program, Theater
Ride the trail to the past with our costumed cowboy to experience the boredom and dangers of a cattle drive. Let us come to your school, and take students back to the past. Guides come with activities that help students think about the past in a different way....
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Program, Theater
An 1870s townperson will help you discover some of the games and etiquette that were a part of life when Wichita was young. Let us come to your school, and take students back to the past. Guides come with activities that help students think about the past in a...
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Program, Theater
Discover the challenges experienced as people traveled west. Experience what it took to start the town of Wichita in the middle of the prairie. Let us come to your school, and take students back to the past. Guides come with activities that help students think about...
Feb 27, 2019 | Language Arts, Program, Science, Storytelling
Program in your classroom.
Feb 27, 2019 | Language Arts, Program, Science, Theater
Program in your classroom
Feb 27, 2019 | Language Arts, Program, Science, Visual / Design Arts
Guided tours of the Gardens are available for groups of 10 or more. Call for specific information.
Feb 27, 2019 | Program, STEM, Theater
Bring your students together to Kick it with Chemistry, be exhilarated by Electrifying Energy or find out how our bodies process sugar and some of the not-so-sweet side effects in Science of Sweets. For entire schools or large groups, multi-grade level appropriate....
Feb 27, 2019 | Program, STEM, Theater
Stimulate your students with science! Standards based, grade-level appropriate, hands-on science activities. See website for program details. Min 10/max 25 students per classroom. Book multiple rooms per visit. For list of programs go to...
Feb 27, 2019 | Program, STEM, Theater
Combine a live science show and a hands-on program for a complete educational adventure right at your own school! Live science shows hold up to 300 students (minimum 50). Hands-on programs hold up to 25 students (minimum 10). For a complete list of shows go to...
Feb 27, 2019 | Health, History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Program, STEM, Theater
Exploration Place is Kansas’ premier hands-on science center for all ages, located on a 20-acre site along the Arkansas River in Wichita’s downtown Museums on the River district. Eight hands-on exhibit areas focus on aviation, Kansas, medieval life in a...
Feb 27, 2019 | Program, STEM, Theater
Choose a movie or a planetarium show at the Digital Dome Theater and Planetarium. Movies this year include: Pandas: The Journey Home Great White Shark Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag (3-12)(available until January 2019) Chirpie's Amazing World Adventure (K-2)...
Feb 27, 2019 | Program, STEM, Theater
Choose from standards based, grade-level appropriate hands on education programs. For a list of programs go to www.exploration.org/programs/hands-on-programs
Feb 27, 2019 | Health, History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Program, STEM, Theater
All Exploration Place exhibits, one Dome show and one hands-on program. To reserve your visit go to www.exploration.org/programs
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Program, Theater
Taking the role of townspeople, students tour to find the basics about the town that any 1870s citizen would need to know. Teacher's packet and other guides available online.
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Program, Theater
Kansas state symbols and folk characters reveal just what it takes to have "Kansas Character." Teacher's packet available online.
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Program, Theater
Explore the history of Kansas through the state seal and explore the lives of people in the transition to statehood and beyond. Teacher's packet available online.
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Program, Theater
Teach in a school decorated for Christmas to experience how students in the 1870s prepared for the holidays.
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Program, Theater
Take your students back in time as our costumed teacher leads them through lessons and exercises of the 1870s. Let us come to your school, and take your students back to the past as our costumed teacher leads them through lessons and exercises of the 1870s. Guides...
Feb 27, 2019 | Character Education, History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Multicultural, Music, Program, Storytelling, Theater
Opening with a Spiritual that prompts the students to “Hold On,” all will be engaged in the process. 3-5 students will be paired with 1-3 ARISE members to learn and recite something about Gordon Parks’ multi-faceted life. All students will sing...
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Math, Program, Science, Theater
Explore the sights, sounds and smells of an 1870s County Fair. Reservations required.
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Math, Program, Science, Theater
Experience life on an 1880s farm, as your students participate in hands-on activities that take you through the daily chores and games that were common to children that lived in this rural setting. Teacher packet available online.
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Math, Program, Science, Theater
Participate in common chores, games and manners of city children in an 1870s lower middle class home. Teacher's packet available online.
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Math, Program, Science, Theater
Learn from an 1870s cowboy about the diverse group of men who secure Wichita as a booming cow town. Teacher packet available online.
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Math, Program, Science, Theater
Learn about the diverse peoples who worked with local entrepreneurs, the tools and methods of transportation they used to create a town on the prairie. Teacher's packet available online.
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Math, Program, Science, Theater
Be an 1870s teacher for half a day. Use McGuffey's Readers, slates and chalk to teach in a one-room school. Teacher's packet available online.
Feb 27, 2019 | Careers / Life Skills, History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Program, Theater
Contrast occupations of the 1870s and what replaced them In modern times. Teacher's packet and other materials available online.
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Program, Theater
Compare living in the city and with life on an 1880s farm and decide whether city children or those in the country had it easier. Teacher packet and other materials available online.
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Program, Theater
How did people of a new town work together? Find out how working together to provide basic goods and services was needed to keep the town alive. Teacher and student booklets available online.
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Kansas History, Language Arts, Program, Theater
Participate in domestic holiday preparations that conclude with traditional Christmas songs and the staging of a nativity tableau. A teacher's packet is available online.
Feb 27, 2019 | History / Social Studies, Language Arts, Program, Visual / Design Arts
WAM and CityArts partner for a unique art experience just for high school students. Take a tour at WAM exploring the American painting collection; then head to CityArts for a painting session with a teaching artist. Cost for class session is $5 per student; WAM tour...
Feb 27, 2019 | Language Arts, Program, Science, Storytelling
Program for your classroom.
Feb 27, 2019 | Language Arts, Program, Science, Theater
This classic chidren’s class offered by Botanica leads students through the discovery of what is needed to grow a plant from seed to flower. Your students will help grow a 6 foot tall sunflower as they become the soil, rain, and sun!
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