SCHOOL PROGRAMS
&
SCOUT PROGRAMS
Registration is required two weeks prior for all programs.
Rates For School Groups
Per 1/2 day or 1 program or tour
Children - $3.00
One Free adult for every 10 students. Remaining Adults - $3.00
All Day Fee or a Guided Program and a Self- Guided Tour
Children - $4.00 (Adults and Children)
Title 1 Schools - $1.50 Per 1/2 day or 1 program (Adults and Children)
One Free adult for every 10 students.
All day or a Guided Program and a Self-Guided Tour - $2.00 (Adults and Children)
One Free adult for every 10 students.
Cowtown on the Road - $3.00 /student or $1.50/student for Title 1schools for one program
Old Sedgwick County Fair Education Day - Oct. 9, 2010 - $4.50/ student, all adults admitted free.
GUIDED PROGRAMS
Select only ONE GUIDED PROGRAM per visit.
Programs last between 1 1/2 hr. and 2 hrs.
May easily be paired with a SELF-GUIDED TOUR
(SEE BELOW)
for an all day experience.
Farm Life: 1880s Style (K -3rd)
Students examine the link between food and farm to discover the role of the farmer from 130 years ago and today. They also examine the life of children from the 1870s at the DeVore farm house. Class size recommended not to exceed 50 students.
Daily Life: 1870s City Living (K-3rd)
Participate in common chores, games, and manners of city children in an 1870s lower middle class home. Class size recommended not to exceed 25 students.
A Glimpse Of Christmas Past (K-5th) Daily in December
Participate in domestic holiday preparations, pretend shopping trip, and make an ornament to take home. Program concludes with Christmas songs and a nativity tableau. Class size limited to 60 students.
The Cowboys, Cattle and Kansas (3rd – 4th)
Learn from an 1870s cowboy about the diverse group of men who secure Wichita as a booming “cowtown.” Class size recommended not to exceed 25 students.
Trails & Rails: The Settling of Wichita (3rd – 5th)
Learn how the people of the 1860s and 1870s traveled the Prairie Desert and the hardships they faced, to call the Great Plains and Kansas their Home. Class size reccomended not to exceed 45 students.
The Kansas Character (2nd-3rd) Daily in January
Explore the Kansas State Symbol and Folk Characters to reveal just what it takes to have "Kansas Character." Class size reccomended not to exceed 25 students.
Ad Astra Per Aspera (4th-5th GRADES) Daily in January
Explore the history of Kansas and its people as they make this state. Class size reccomended not to exceed 25 students.
SELF-GUIDED TOURS
Old Sedgwick County Fair Education Day - Oct. 9, 2010
One Day only! Reservations Required! Special Fee!
Experience the sights and sounds of an old county fair as your students take a 2 hour tour of the grounds visiting places that attract your students interest. There are more activities than can be experienced in the time allotted, but that should give your students the ability to focus on activities that most interest them. One Chaperone for every five students is requested and admitted free.
2010 curriculum pt 1.
2010 curriculum pt 2.
Education Day Activity Booklet for Lower Grades
Education Day Video - Place your mouse on the media player do a right mouse click, and select zoom - full screen
2009 Education Day Passport.
One Room School (K – 12th)
Be an 1870s teacher for half a day. Use McGuffey’s Readers, slates and chalk to teach in a one-room school.
Community Helpers and Changing Times (K – 2nd)
Compare and contrast occupations of the 1870s and what replaced them today.
Community Helpers Student Booklet
Community Helpers Leaders Booklet
Children: Town and Country (3rd – 4th)
Compare living in the city and on an 1880s farm to decide if city children or those in the country had it easier.
Children: Town and Country - Student Booklet
Children: Town and Country Leader Booklet
Working Together To Make A Town Work (3rd – 5th)
How did people of a new town work together? Find out how working together to provide basic goods and services was needed to keep the town alive.
Working Together Student Booklet
Working Together Leaders Booklet
All Around the Town (5th-8th)
Taking the role of townspeople, students tour to find the basics about the town that any 1870s citizen would need to know.
All Around the Town Leader Booklet
All Around the Town Student Booklet
Cowtown On The Road
Let us come to your school, and take students back to the past. Guides come with activities that help students think about the past in a dfferent way.
Program lasts 1 hour and are designed for single classes.
Readin', Writin' & Recitation - Take your students back in time as our costumed teacher leads them through lessons and exerecises of the 1870s.
Cowpokes & Trail Drives - Ride the trail to the past with our costumed cowboy to experience the boredom and dangers of a cattle drive.
Manners and Marbles - An 1870s townperson will help you discover some of the games and etiquette that were part of life when Wichita was young.
Cub Scout Programs
Click for Color Brochure of Programs
Tiger Cubs -Discovering Wichita – Plan your “Go See It” at Cowtown and learn about Wichita’s past. Tour the museum, make a card in the print shop, visit the farm and learn about animal care.
Meets Requirement 1 g, 4g and Elective 31
Offered any time,
Minimum of 6, maximum of 12 participants
Approximately 1.5 hrs.
$3.00 /child/adult
Wolf Cubs –Getting It Done in the 1870s – Learn about tools, their uses in the Carpentry Shop and create a birdhouse project. Go around the grounds learning about machines and how they did the work needed long ago.
Meets Requirement 5a, c, d, e and elective 7a, 8b,c -
Available on non-event Saturdays
Minimum of 6, maximum of 12 participants
Program length – 2hrs
Cost: $10/ per child, $3.00/ adult
Bear Cubs –Building an 1870s Town – Come and learn how a town was built and then create your own toolbox at Old Cowtown Museum’s Carpentry shop so that you can go out and build on your own.
Meets Requirement 3b,c, e and 20a, 20b
Available on non event Saturdays
Minimum of 6, maximum of 12 participants
Program length – 1.5-2hrs
Cost: $10/ per scout, $3.00/ adult
Girl Scout Programs
Daily Life: 1870s City Living (K-3rd)
Participate in common chores, games, and manners of city children in an 1870s lower middle class home. Class size recommended not to exceed 25 students. - Completes most requirements for the Brownie Frontier Fun badge.
Summer Girl Scout Programming
To Schedule a Program Contact
316-350-3317 or 316-350-3322