Summer 2008 History Camps
A FUN, BRAND NEW PROGRAM!
BECOME AN ECO-HISTORY AMBASSADOR!
July 7-11, Watertown Community Center
Are you ready to make a difference? Join the Carver County Historical Society as we learn how our actions today can protect the future - and the past!
Discover your part in keeping the environment around us healthy
Learn about eco-history through trips, speakers, and hands-on activities
Meet community elders and explore the past through oral history
Visit the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and the Carver County Environmental Center
Learn heirloom gardening skills
Help create an exhibit that will be displayed in the five Carver County libraries!
This is a FREE program, but space is limited to 12 students per session, so sign up fast! This program is open to students in grades 3-5. The camps are from 8:30am-4:30pm daily.
To register, please contact Erin Anderson at (952)442-4234 or e-mail us at education@co.carver.mn.us.
 Funding for this program is through a generous grant from Community POWER, a program of the Solid Waste Management Coordinating Board. The SWMCB, and their information website www.greenguardian.com, are committed to reducing the amount of household waste produced by the Twin Cities.
WAGONS AND CABINS: SETTLING CARVER COUNTY
July 21-25, 9am-12pm
Grades K-3 (students must have completed kindergarten to attend)
Imagine homesteading in Carver County 150 years ago
Discover pioneer life - from going to the bathroom to growing the crops!
Experience a day in a one-room schoolhouse
Explore baking homemade bread and churning butter
Use an old-fashioned fishing pole and spend a day at the lake!
Learn about Native American culture, traditions, and storytelling
Register soon! There is only room for 12 students in this history camp! To register or for more information, please contact Erin Anderson at (952)442-4234 or e-mail us at education@co.carver.mn.us.
Are you a member of the Carver County Historical Society? Your registration begins TODAY! Registration fee: $15
Not a member? Join today and save $10! Your registration begins on Monday, May 26. Registration fee: $25
Family Programs
Summer 2008 Family Camping Trip
Friday & Saturday, July 18&19 from 5pm
 A great opportunity to learn about eco-history as a family! Special activities by the Dakota community of Carver County, Carver County Libraries, Three Rivers Park District, and the Minnesota Astronomical Society are sure to make this a trip to remember!
Call the Historical Society at (952)442-4234 or e-mail Erin today to sign up, because there is only room for 35 on this trip!
Date: July 18&19
Time: 5pm Friday - 12pm Saturday
Ages: Fun for the whole family!
Cost: FREE!
School Programs
The Carver County Historical Society is proud to offer a variety of programs for schools and groups of all ages and sizes. Through the use of artifacts, maps, historical photos, and other primary sources, students learn how national events affected local history. All of our programs offer a hands-on learning experience for students.
School Programs/Traveling Programs
These programs are available year-round, and can be booked at the school or at the museum. They are free within Carver County. These programs are also great for Girl and Boy Scout troops, 4-H clubs, home school classes, and other youth group events.
All Grades: One Room Schoolhouse
School sure has changed in the past 150 years! A Carver County teacher from the past will help your students discover what life was like in a pioneer schoolhouse. Students will learn how going to school has changed over the last century by following 19th-century classroom rules and participating in reading, recitation, handwriting, and arithmetic lessons similar to those taught in the original one room schools. Grades 1-3 will use a slate to practice penmanship, and grades 4-6 will use dip pens. 60 minutes
Kindergarten: Mysteries in History
Your students will use artifacts and inquiry-based learning to help solve a “mystery in history.” How do we know what we know about the past? Students will explore their historical curiosities as they engage questioning and reasoning skills to solve artifact mysteries. What is it made from? What does it smell like? Does it look like something we use today? Is it an ice skate or a vegetable chopper? 30 minutes
Grade 1: Putting Your Life in a Box
Students will help pack an immigrant trunk. They must choose what items to bring with them to America and what to leave behind – not everything will fit in the trunk! Students are asked to think about what types of things immigrants would want to bring with them when they move to a new country where they have never been before. This activity is designed to encourage students to think about what it is like to leave a place you have always called home for a new one in a strange country. 30-45 minutes
Follow-up activity available: Coming to America interactive story
Grade 2: Down on the Farm
Can you imagine life 150 years ago? Without Wii, without electric toasters, without even an indoor toilet? A CCHS staff member will help your class try their hand at homesteading, discover aspects of pioneer life (from growing the crops to going to the bathroom), and even churn their own butter! Students will get a chance to handle and use all of the artifacts. This program is designed to explore the differences between family life today and yesterday, and to let students discover what hard work it was to farm and keep house in Carver County during the 1880s. 45 minutes
Grade 3: Ghost Towns
Not all ghost towns are in the Wild West! Whether or not a town survives depends on four main factors: people, transportation, organization, and natural resources. Students will learn about why some towns survived while others did not, and how civic duty and economic choice played a role in shaping the future of these communities by looking at examples of lost communities right here in Carver County. 45 minutes
Grade 4: Exploring the Great Northwest
Students will learn about the fur trade in Minnesota by actually living it! Students will experience Minnesota wilderness firsthand as they pretend to travel with voyageurs of the 18th-century to a small fur trading post just south of Carver, called Little Rapids. Your students will also be introduced to the dynamic of Native American-trader relations and how Europeans and Indians worked together or conflicted in the industry. This is a fun way to explore Minnesota history through pictures, song, and re-enactment! 45-60 minutes
NEW PROGRAM!
Grade 5: Can You Dig It?
Even though Carver County has only been around for a little over 150 years, the history of the area dates back thousands of years. The stories of these people are woven in the evidence found in the earth. In this program, students will learn about Native Americans in Carver County by studying bone tools, stone artifacts, and ceramics. Your students will also get the chance to dig through trash to discover how the archaeological record is made! 60 minutes
Grade 6: Rosie the Riveter
Explore life in Carver County during World War II as we meet Rosie, a mother and wife of an army infantryman who takes a job in a munitions box factory during the war. Students will experience her life during the war through words, photos, posters, and objects and will discover the impact WWII had on the homefront. 40-50 minutes
NEW PROGRAM!
Grade 6: Marching Barefoot
Minnesota was still a young state when the Civil War began, but it quickly became embroiled in one of the country's most contentious and devastating wars. From Fort Snelling to Carver County, no other state in the Union sent a higher percentage of their male population to war. Students will understand the important role that Minnesota played in the war by engaging map and reasoning skills and using primary sources (Carver County Civil War diaries) to get a firsthand look at Minnesota life during the 1860. 60 minutes
Follow up activity available:Civil War Cryptography
Please contact Erin Anderson at (952) 442-4234 to
check availability or e-mail us at education@co.carver.mn.us.
NEW PROGRAM!
JUNIOR CURATORS
Explore the Carver County Historical Society in a brand new way! This is an opportunity for students in grades 5-12. This is a FREE program.
A Junior Curator will have the opportunity to:
Choose an artifact, text, photo, person, or place to research and discover OR create a school, preschool, or family program based on an exhibit in the museum.
Write an article about the object or program and its significance. The article will be published in the student's local newspaper.
Tour behind the scenes at our museum to gain an understanding of how a museum operates and who works there.
To apply, please contact Erin Anderson (952)442-4234 or e-mail us at education@co.carver.mn.us.
Junior Curators must agree to a one-month commitment (four consecutive Saturday mornings) or a minimum of 8 hours. These 8 hours do not have to be consecutive but can be fulfilled based on the student's schedule.
All of our programs are FREE unless otherwise stated.
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