MUSEUM OF THE GREAT PLAINS

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING

Dear Teacher,

It is our pleasure to offer special museum programs for students. This brochure outlines several of the programs available this fall that will enhance classroom studies.

For reservations or more information on programs and tours, call the MGP education department at 580-581-3460. MGP educator Jana Brown or Living History Interpreter Tim Poteete will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

School Programs and Guided Tours

Blue Beaver # 61 One Room Schoolhouse Send your students back to 1910 to experience Penmanship with nibs & staffs, Reading lessons with McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader, Orthography, Arithmetic on a slate, Personal Hygiene Lesson (1910 style), History, all topped off with a Spelling Bee. Available by reservation throughout the year.

NEW!
Summer Programs

Red River Trading Post Red River Trading Post was built from a written description of an actual fur trade "station" which operated along Red River, c1840. Dealing primarily with the Comanches and Kiowas, customers also included Caddos, Wichitas, Wacos, Kiechias, Tonkawas, and Anadarkos, among others. RRTP is stocked with both the hides of the animal species hunted and trapped on the Southern Plains at the time, and the goods for which these hides were traded. These hides include black bear, beaver and buffalo, while the goods range from buttons and calico cloth, butcher knives and belt axes, to tin ware and brick tea. Come visit where paper money didn't exist, but furs bought needed supplies. Available by reservation throughout the year.

Children's Chores     Bring your class out to the post to experience early chores children performed in the morning and after school. For instance, hauling firewood and water, changing the mattress straw, shucking corn, grinding corn to meal, cooking biscuits, and various other prairie home activities.    Available by reservation throughout the year.

Rental Kit "Plains Indian Life"    Items comprising this kit are typical of a Plains Indian home, c1875. A bow, quiver & arrows, buffalo and otter hides, dolls, pipes, tomahawks, moccasins, bone scrapers, parfleche, games, shell buttons, buffalo bladder container, and quills. This kit allows students to see and handle these and other items that otherwise would be only a photograph or drawing in a book. It is a tangible link to the culture and heritage of this region.

Admission
GROUP RATES * NON-PROGRAM (SELF TOUR)
Grade School Students (5 or more)    $2.00
Jr. and Sr. High School Students (10 or more)    $2.50
Pre-School Students    $1.00
Adults and College Students (15 or more) $3.00

GROUP RATES * PROGRAM (GUIDED TOUR)
Grade School Students    $2.50
Jr. and Sr. High School Students    $3.00
Pre-School Students    $1.50
Adults and College Students $4.00

CHAPERONES
1 Adult for every (10) children FREE
1 Adult for every (5) pre-school & kindergarden FREE
Other Adults accompanying group $5.00