Learning Materials
Downloadable classroom lessons for high school students on behalf of Montclair History Center. The materials focus on segregation and discrimination in the first half of the 20th century.
Downloadable lesson plans accompanying the exhibition Casey Ruble: Everything that Rises at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey. Lessons are standards-aligned and combine Art, History, and English/Language Arts.
Digital curriculum on Dutch Breukelen using Brooklyn Historical Society resources now available. Lessons for grades 2-8.
Family Discovery Packs
2014-2015 Prototype Family Discovery Packs for Prospect Park Alliance – evaluating and testing on weekends at Pop-Up Audubon II tents in Prospect Park.
“You’ve exceeded my expectations.” – Funder from the NY Community Trust upon seeing the Discovery Packs and Pop-Up II tent activities during a site visit, June 2015
Discovery Trunks
2009 McCormick Freedom Project Discovery Trunks – handling materials for classroom use.
Stories depicted through objects in the trunk.
2010 Discovery Trunk for the NJ Vietnam Era Education Center: Created theme, obtained objects, supervised reproduction of documents, created information sheets and lesson plans. Here’s a link to an article written about the Vietnam trunk.
In 2012, more than 10,000 students used the trunks, and many schools discovered the museum through their use.
Please click on the images below to see the trunk contents in more detail.
Podcasts: Training for Texas Museums Series
Videos: Sunnyside After School Program
Partners in Learning Education Program
Jersey Rocks Exhibit Interactive
