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Outreach Program Overview


Bring a one-of-a-kind history experience to your classroom or multi-purpose room with a visit by a Dallas Heritage Village costumed character. Our fun and interactive programs are the perfect complement before or after a visit to the museum. Each theme is a 45-minute session for up to 30 students, all TEKS-aligned.

Topic options include:

• Wagons West! (3rd to 5th Grade)
• All Aboard (3rd to 5th Grade)
• Artifact Discovery (5th to 8th Grade)

Program Fees


Schools in Dallas County

• First Session $100 ($75 each additional session)
  
• First Session With Museum Visit $75 ($50 each additional session)
  

• First Session $125 ($75 each additional session)
  
• First Session With Museum Visit $100 ($50 each additional session)
  

Reservations


To reserve your outreach program or for more information, contact the Reservations Coordinator.

• Phone: 214-413-3674 (Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to Noon)
  
• Email: Reservations

Wagons West! (3rd Grade to 5th Grade)


Program Description
What was it like to move to Texas in a covered wagon? Compare the journey to moving today. What would you take and what would you leave behind? Unpack a trunk filled with hands-on, reproduction objects representing the kinds of things people took West with them. Experience textures, smells, and objects from the pioneer era.

Students will

• Learn how North Texas was settled.
• Evaluate the items necessary to build a home and community.
• Compare and contrast travel today with travel 150 years ago.

All Aboard (3rd Grade to 5th Grade)


Program Description
How did trains change life in Texas? Compare and contrast life in a Texas town before and after the railroad. Children will learn about the changes the railroad brought, including technology, the economy and urban growth.  There will be plenty of interactive, hands-on opportunities, including a guided scavenger hunt through the 1895 Montgomery Ward catalog.

Students will

• Learn about the impact of the railroad on the economy and growth of early Dallas.
• Explore early technology with railroad related artifacts.
• Discover how people lived at the turn-of-the-last-century through primary sources.
• Learn about commerce and the exchange of goods and services.

Artifact Discovery (5th Grade to 8th Grade)


Program Description
Be a history detective! How were artifacts used in the past? What can we learn about history through objects? Search for clues in artifacts brought to your classroom.  Students will have the opportunity to discover the secret of the artifact and share their findings with their classmates.

Students will

• Explore the technology of the past.
• Play the role of a historian by observing and analyzing artifacts and other primary sources in order to discover their use.