Teaching Kits
Hands-on Experiences!
Teaching kits provide hands-on experiences for the classroom setting and are designed to support the required curriculum in Utah public schools.
Kits contain a variety of teaching aids including real artifacts and/or replicas, photographs, documents, videos, publications, and teaching guides.
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Teaching kits are not available for checkout at this time.
Prehistory/Archaeology Teaching Kit
Description:
This kit focuses on what is currently known about the prehistoric sequence in Utah from shortly after the melting of glacial ice, about 9500 B.C., to the American Indians who were in the area when Euro-American settlers first arrived.
Contents:
Manuscripts, posters, maps, publications, and a variety of visual aids, including 35mm slides and artifacts (some authentic and some reproductions) to allow students hands-on experiences.
Artifacts include: projectile points, pottery fragments, stone specimens, bone tools, basketry fragments, and vegetable products used in daily life.
A teaching guide contains instructions for teachers, a synopsis of the guide, an archaeology program for school children, and exercises and games for use in the primary grades. Recommended for 4th - 12th grade levels; history and earth science classes.
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Some items from the Prehistory/Archaeology Teaching Kit
Country School Legacy Teaching Kit
Description:
This kit focuses on children attending school during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A tabletop exhibit of photographs and document facsimiles related to the country school experience is also available with this kit.
Contents:
The kit contains 21 photographs of Utah schools, a set of McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers, Primer Through the Sixth (reproductions), The Elementary Spelling Book by Noah Webster (reproduction), The Second Reader, 1848 (reproduction), The Tales of Peter Parley about America by Peter Parley, 1828 (reproduction), Early American School Books (choice pages from 1785-1880), 28-minute Country School Legacy video and an accompanying booklet, Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier, two “My Copybook” examples and an activity sheet for making a “My Copybook” plus a set of Copybook exercise sheets, a slate, chalk, and quill pen.
Recommended for 4th – 9th grade levels; history, English, and art classes.
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Some items from the Country School Legacy Teaching Kit
Country School Legacy Tabletop Exhibit
Liquid Treasure Teaching Kit
Description:
This kit focuses on water, the foundation of all life on earth. Its purpose is to help teachers motivate their students toward an understanding of the many uses of water as well as an appreciation of the complex and expansive engineering works required to deliver water to cities, farms, and industries. Developed by the Utah Department of Water Resources and State History.
Contents:
Historic photographs, artifacts and artifact replicas, documents, and printed material. Artifacts include: a rain stick of the type made by Indians in Chile to pray for rain, water bag made from flax, gold pan used in prospecting for gold in rivers and streams, “divining rods” to locate underground water, washboard, clothes pins, carbide lamp, bench mark, railroad spike, glass insulator, bottle of iodine, “Sears Roebuck & Co. Consumer Guide 1909,” “The Wonders of Water” video provides an introduction to the study of water, and another video that provides teachers with ideas on how the kit can be used in the classroom.
Recommended for 4th – 12th grades; history, geography, and earth science classes.
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Some items from the Liquid Treasure Teaching Kit
Mining History Teaching Kit
Description:
This kit focuses on the pivotal role mining has played in the history of Utah encompassing industrial and technological development, as well as the diverse peopling of the state.
The kit centers on the mining industry and daily life in three important mining areas: Park City (silver), Bingham Canyon (copper), and Castle Gate (coal). Three tabletop foldouts exhibit historic photographs of these towns and the mining that occurred in nearby mines. These photos illustrate the themes of mining technology and the day-to-day life of miners, their families, and the role of children.
Contents:
Hands-on artifacts include: replica of an early candlestick holder, carbide lamp and canvas cap, yellow slicker, prospector's hammer, box of 15 common ore samples, miner's type lunch pail, 1895 Montgomery Ward & Co. catalog reproduction, washboard and lye soap, men's black mourning arm bands, girl's black mourning hair ribbons, children's games from various historic periods, muslin bag of marbles with steelies and 1 rag baseball.
The kit also contains a variety of activities and games, ranging from experiments with minerals to "Geologic Time Chart Scramble," to "Strike It Rich." Several publications and videotapes on mining complete the presentation. This kit has a fully developed integrated curriculum guide for 4th and 7th grades, developed by teachers.
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Some items from the Mining History Teaching Kit