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Alviso Slideshow | Volunteer Form | Student Tour Registration
ABOUT THE ADOBE The 1854 Alviso Adobe is one of the oldest structures in the City of Pleasanton and has been listed on the California State Register of Historic Places (site 510) as a unique location that demonstrates an exceptional intersection of culture and history. The Alviso Adobe Community Park Visitors enter the park from a 30-space parking lot off Foothill Road, with a drop-off zone at the site’s southern tip as well as a bus turnout. Other site improvements include a new interpretive adobe wall at the southern entrance to the site, lighted walkways, a small amphitheater and group gathering space, gardens and interpretive signage and displays. Alviso Adobe Community Park is a collaborative project between the City of Pleasanton and Pleasanton’s Museum on Main. TIMELINE OF EVENTS 2008
- Alviso Adobe Community Park Opens INTERPRETIVE PROGRAM OPTIONS & DESCRIPTIONS Time Travelers (December – February) Students will travel into the historical life ways of the people who lived at the Adobe before the present era. Exploration of the clothing, tools and foods of the Ohlone, the Rancho people and the Meadowlark Dairy. Includes a brief, guided tour of the entire Alviso Adobe. Preschool – 5th / 2 hours. Native Ways (Weds & Thurs) Hands on program learning about Ohlone material culture through actively creating crafts and tools used historically by them. Students will also learn about native flora and fauna which the Ohlone shared their world with and utilized within their culture. 2nd - 6th / 1.5 -2 hours. Adobe chores (year round, brick making only in spring and summer) focus on Californios life-ways and daily chores with hands-on activities including tending gardens, processing adobe bricks, branding leather and preparing food using traditional methods. Preschool – 4th / 1 or 2 hours. Dairy Discoveries (winter, spring and summer) Visit the Meadowlark Dairy and learn about the important impact it had in Pleasanton, nutrition and heath care in the Bay Area. Students will make one of the products which are produced after the cows do their work. 1st - 5th / 1 or 2 hours. Plant Impact (year round) In-depth study of plants, their uses and historical influences on human culture. Focus on Ohlone, Adobe and Meadowlark Dairy chronological periods. Program and activities will focus on the following areas: Nutrition, Cultural uses of plants in cuisine, utilitarian uses and healing properties. Followed by an examination into how plants affect our daily lives today. Preschool – K, 1st - 6th / 1 hour or 1.5 hours. Share Cropper (1st visit late March/April -2nd visit early June) Students come into the gardens to plant their own crops and then return to harvest them later in the season. Also designed for home school groups. 1st - 6th / 2 visits 1.5 hours each. Delightful Vegetable (June and on until final harvest) How About Our Habitat (spring, summer and fall) Intensive look at the various habitats which exist in and around the Adobe with field study of the flora and fauna on site. 2 hours Butterfly Garden (winter, spring and summer 2009) Hands on field work which involves student in the creation of butterfly habitats at the Adobe site, followed by natural and cultural history of native butterfly populations. 2 hours Riparian Rendezvous (rainy season and spring only) Students work in the field with naturalist in on going development of seasonal creek restoration as they learn the importance of riparian habitats to both local species and human culture. 1.5 hours Arthropods in the Garden (spring and summer) Come into the gardens and learn about the beneficial and harmful relationships between humans and insects. Students will learn to identify species in the field and find out about historical encounters in agriculture both positive and negative between humans and insects. 1 hour Fauna around the Farm (2009) Learn about the history of domestication and animal adaptation in and around the farm. Find out which animals benefited from agriculture and which ones do not. 1.5 hours Medicines in the Garden (2009) Learn about plants in relation to medicinal properties and how all cultures have uses plants as healing agents, both past and present. 1 hour Stewards of the Valley (year around) Student will come up to the Adobe and experience how they can affect change in the world around them by helping to shape the landscape which is the Alviso Adobe. 1.5 or 2 hours Exploring Our World (year around) Learn what it was like to be an explorer in by gone eras, study weather, the sun and stars in relation to navigation. Students will create a map using the methods of the past. 1 hour Digging Pleasanton (spring and summer) Field Archeology program which will introduce students to the history of the world under our feet. This program will allow classes to become apart of the ongoing research into the history of the Adobe. 1.5 or 2 hours Prehistoric Pleasanton (2009) Find out what it was like in Pleasanton 6000 years ago, 12,000 years ago or 65,000,000 years ago and beyond. What was it like before and who or what lived here? Students will travel back in time and find out. 1 hour Expanding the Universe (year around) Various studies offered in all Natural and Physical Sciences. Answer the questions of where we have been, where we are and where are we going in the future. 1hour Station Programs (fall, spring and summer – Friday and Sunday) Children move between activities stations which may consist of grinding acorn, making ice cream, tending the vegetable garden, tule cordage and rope-making, historical games, encounters with native wildlife or visiting farm animals. A list of the day’s activities will be posted upon arrival. Program times ALVISO ADOBE COLLABORATIVE TEAM City of Pleasanton Pleasanton’s Museum on Main Please stay tuned with the Pleasanton’s Museum on Main for the latest updates for the Alviso Adobe Community Park and tour reservations. Phone the Museum at 925-462-2766 or email at education@museumonmain.org or office@museumonmain.org. ©2007-2008 ALVHS |
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