Museum on Main

Traveling Trunks

A Mini-Museum in your classroom!
Traveling Trunks are packed full of original and replica artifacts, historical photographs, activity ideas, aducational materials, music, dress-up clothes, and more!  Teachers may book trunks on a weekly basis and may share within the school.  Maximum 2 weeks/school.  To book a Traveling Trunk for your School or Organization, please contact Director of Education at 925-462-2766 or education@museumonmain.org  Please indicate which traveling trunk you would like to book as well as preferred week/s of rental.

Traveling Trunk Fees: $25 per week.

Local History (Pleasanton):
(3rd Grade)

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Focus on the people and places in the history of the Amador-Livermore Valley.
Activities include:
- Draw A Diseno
- Traveling Tortillas
- Tools of the Time
- Old Time Toys
- Postcards from Pleasanton
- I Have, Who Has? Vocabulary
- Mail Order Math

Addresses CA State Standards:
History-Social Sciences: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.5
English-Language Arts: Reading 2.0, Writing 2.0
Visual and Performing Arts: 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
Mathematics: Number Sense 2.0, Algebra and Functions 2.1, Statistics, Data Analysis and Probability 1.0

Gold Rush:
(4th Grade)

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 Focus on diverse experiences of the Gold Rush and impact on California.

Activties include:
- Crafting a Guidebook
- Mapping the Routes
- Primary Source Photo Analysis
- Timeline
- Gold Rush Economics
- I Have, Who Has? Vocabulary
- Cookie Mining

Addresses CA State Standards:
History-Social Sciences: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
English-Language Arts: Writing 2.1
Visual and Performing Arts: 5.3, 3.1
Mathematics: 3.0
Earth Science: 5a