Take a trip back in time with up to 9 hands on exhibits and learning centers featuring 9 artists from various cultures and exhibiting various trades; each bringing to the table an experience that your young learners are not soon to forget. During the event your students will venture around a myriad of stations that provide access to Early American and Pioneer core content and meeting Core Content and National academic standards from many different cultures from that time period.

   During the event you and your students will experience stories and musical instruments that were brought here from Africa from an authentic African storyteller, taught how to make brooms and why trades such as that were important all the while being told stories of why family is so important, a first hand experience with an authentic Native American from Kentucky who will share the importance of Oral traditions, music and dance. A mountain man who will demonstrate the use of tools from the pioneer era and why they were so important to the Pioneers, an authentic blacksmith who will demonstrate the art of blacksmithing to make necessary tools such as horseshoes, nails, axes, knives, etc., a folk musician who will demonstrate the use of many different musical instruments from the time period, sing folk songs that can correlate with any folk dances and tell why music was so important to the Pioneers. Also, during the event the children will experience a Interactive Pioneer museum that contains over 300 items that is completely sensory; they can touch everything in it!

"For more information please download the Traveling History Event Portfolio below" 

	Open Availibilty from October 2009 through October 2010
	Varies ( please contact for more information and/or request a proposal for your facility)
	7 hands on learning stations   * Native American Culture ( storytelling, music and dance) by Anthony Redfeather Nava for more information click here * Early American Folk Music by Ray Major for more information click here * Early American & Colonial (broom-making and storytelling) by Donna Williams aka The Kentucky Broom Lady for more information click here * Early American & Colonial Culture (Weaver and Storytelling) by Michelle DeEsch for more information click here * Fur Trade and Mountain Man Demonstration by D.W. White aka "Legs" for more information click here * Blacksmithing Demonstrations by Andy Bennett for more information click here * Interactive Pioneer Museum & Indigenous Peoples' Sensory Museum by the Nava family
	up to 640 Children / 6 hour Day
	K - 12
	Social Studies * Kentucky History (Kentucky) * Indiana History (Indiana) * Historical Perspective       * The Factual and Interpretive Nature of History       * The History of the United States       * The History of the World * Culture & Societies:       * Elements of Culture       * Interactions amoung Individuals and Groups * Geography       * Patterns       * Human - Environment Interaction  Arts & Humanities * Music * Dance * Visual Arts * Drama

 

* Traveling History Program proposals to help you propose the event to your administrators and staff

* We have access to many grants and we provide assistance with writing grants

* Teachers Guide that is filled with Resources, Pre and Post Activites, Lesson Plans and Glossary

 

Event Portfolio	Teachers Guide
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