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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

• Barnyard Buddies (PreK to 2nd Grade)
• Wagons West! (3rd to 5th Grade)
• Civil War Lives (4th to 8th Grade)

Barnyard Buddies (PreK to 2nd Grade)


Choose one of four different programs and we'll bring history to your class.

TEXAS LEGENDS
Texas is full of stories and tall tales. We’ll sing a few Texas songs, read Pecos Bill by Steven Kellogg and selections from Texas Mother Goose. Wrap up your Texas adventure by making your own piece of rope and decorating a bandana.

TRAIN TRACKS
Get ready to climb aboard! We’ll play a few train games, read I’m Taking a Trip on My Train by Shirley Neitzel and Full Steam Ahead by Faye Gibbons. We'll even make a train whistle.

SHEEP SHENANIGANS
What would it be like to be a sheep? Touch real wool, read Red Berry Wool by Robyn Eversole and Brave Charlotte! by Ann Stohner, and make your own sheep. We’ll even try our hand at some weaving.

MUSIC, MUSIC EVERYWHERE
It’s a toe-tapping good time! We’ll sing a song or two, read When Uncle Took the Fiddle by Libba Moore Gray and Westward Ho, Carlotta! by Candace Fleming, and make a musical instrument. We might even play a game or two of musical chairs.


FEES

• $125 for up to two classes (limit 20 kids per class)
  
• $25 each additional class
  

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.

• 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.

• 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)
  

Civil War Lives (4th Grade to 8th Grade)


Program Description
Explore a one-of-a-kind experience through reproduction artifacts, photos and letters. Students will actually touch and examine these items, helping spur imaginations to create their own Civil War story.

• Identify the effects of war on every day life.
• Discover some of the key decisions made by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
• Use primary sources to create a Civil War story.

• 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)
  

"Civil War Lives" Add-On to Field Trip


Add "Civil War Lives" to your February or March Field Trip to Dallas Heritage Village. Your outreach program will be followed by a guided tour of the Shotgun House, the Village’s nineteenth century African-American household.
Fee with museum visit (admission of $4 per student still applicable) is $75 for the first session. Additional sessions are $50.

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