At Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, Education is Fun!
Our intorductory video - Welcome to MKIM!
Our teaching methods include storytelling, interpretation, hands-on activities, essential questions, and assessment strategies. Programs take place under the guidance of trained museum educators. Our programming can take place inside the museum or a more informal setting such as our Medicine Woods. We work with classroom teachers and educators to provide well-rounded and thoughtful presentations. And this is just what happens at Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum.
MKIM also offers tours for home-school groups, scouting groups, senior and charter tours, and special interest tours for groups such as cultural awareness, gardening, crafts, Native studies, and museum studies groups.
Your group will learn about Native culture of the Northeastern Woodlands with its birch bark containers, moose hair embroidery and split ash baskets, into the Southeast with artifacts from the Seminole and Cherokee cultures. Around a corner, enter the Southwest with a fascinating discussion about corn, pueblo pottery, Navajo weaving and basketry from the western part of the country. The Plains Gallery brings a full-scale furnished tipi into the galleries! Students will marvel at this glimpse into Plains life with discussions of the American bison, beadwork and feather headdresses.
MKIM is a natural resource for classroom teachers, home school parents, youth group leaders and enrichment coordinators. In addition to offering group tours of the museum, the museum offers Outreach Travel Programs that will come to you where your classroom or group meets. MKIM aligns with the New Hampshire Department of Education's State Curriculum Frameworks for Teaching Social Studies, Common Core standards and the National Council for the Social Studies standards. Our programming can be customized to meet your needs. Our outreach also includes civic engagement groups, historical societies and libraries.
But there is more...
New Hampshire Department of Education’s State Curriculum Frameworks includes the study of Native American history and culture, or people and their environments. A visit to the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum can be the perfect way to enhance your students’ learning. Experiencing the museum with a trained educator will provide your students with information about, and a close examination of the daily lives and cultures of tribes across North America.
We can also add to your tour! Try a guided walk through our beautiful Medicine Woods, where there are over 100 species of plants that have been used for medicinal remedies, food, tools, or shelter. Your tour guide will explain the plants exhibited that were used then and now to create some of the items your students will experience in the museum.
* Guest passes, Groupons, or any discount passes are not valid for any special events, school tours, or other prearranged group tours.
Outreach/Travel Programs
Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum can bring the museum to you with a Powerpoint presentation and some artifacts. Some customization is available.
For groups:
A general digital tour of the museum, its mission as well as engaging, hands-on artifact examinations and discussion.
TRAVEL PROGRAMS FEES
90 Minute Program $375.00 (PowerPoint Presentation with Artifacts, Hands-On AND Question and Answers)
60 Minute Program $250.00 (PowerPoint Presentation with Artifacts, Hands-On OR Question and Answers)
45 Minute Program $188.00 (PowerPoint Presentation with Artifacts - For Any Group)
ADDITIONAL FEES
There is a mileage fee of $.75/mile, round trip from Warner, NH.
Teacher Evaluations and Assessments
In order for us to continue to provide quality engagement and content knowledge that will assist YOUR efforts to meet the New Hampshire Curriculum Frameworks, please click on the button to evaluate us. Your assessment of our educational programming will only serve to strengthen OUR efforts for YOU and your students! Thank you.
We also offer Virtual Interactive Tours!
Interactive Virtual Field Trips are available for your classroom. If you can’t visit us, we can bring the museum to you. Please e-mail education@indianmuseum.org for more info. Prices start at $188 for a 45 minute tour which includes a question and answer period with one of our knowledgeable Educators. We can customize a tour to meet your needs.
Visit these websites for additional resources for teachers, parents, and students:
Abenaki Arts and Education Center
Educational programming is more than simple museum exhibits. Throughout the year we hold events which include the teaching of various Native American crafts, demonstrations, lectures, workshops and classes as well as many other activities.
We've developed a seed library from the crops we grow which, in turn, offer these seeds to individuals and groups who are interested in growing heritage food crops.
Email us or give us a call to schedule your program today! (education@indianmuseum.org)
