Choose from any of these programs; those not available for presentation in the classroom are noted accordingly. 

Programs

All Bundled Up:  Quilt Program (K-7) 
Students will hear a story about a quilt maker who records her favorite things on the blocks of her quilt. They will also see examples of old and new quilt blocks with a variety of quilt patterns and a full quilt.
30 minutes 

Apple Blossom Time (K-5) – only available in September
Students will learn that the local apple industry was substantial and that the parades and pageants celebrating that industry became a tourist attraction. This is shown through photographs and artifacts.  A PowerPoint presentation is available for older children.
30 minutes 

Arkansas Symbols (K-2)
Students will learn about the origins and meanings of our state symbols.
30 minutes 

Becoming A History Detective (3-5)
Students will learn how to differentiate between primary and secondary sources. The program includes different examples of sources for the students to compare.
1 hour  

Christmas Traditions Past and Present (K-5)
Students will learn how people in America celebrate Christmas and how the traditions have changed over the years. The program starts with simple pine boughs and goes through Twas the Night Before Christmas, magazines and how presents have changed.
30 minutes 

Coming to Arkansas:  An Immigration Story (K-7)
Students will learn about the 3 major movements of people into Northwest Arkansas from pioneer times to the present. Includes map of U.S. to show where people came from. Lesson includes student input.  Includes a PowerPoint presentation.
30-45 minutes

Discovering the Bluff Dwellers (K-6)
Students will learn about the Native Americans, who traveled through Northwest Arkansas as long as 14,000 years ago, who often made their seasonal homes in bluffs located along the nearby White River.  The program includes highlights of the Rock Art PowerPoint program developed by George Sabo III, PhD., University of Arkansas & Arkansas Archaeological Survey. 
1 hour 

Rocky Branch One-Room Schoolhouse (1-5)
Take students back to school days of long ago with a day at this historic one-room school east of Rogers.  Available to school classes or to home-school groups of 20 or more students. Students will compare and contrast a modern school with a school from 1905. The day includes lessons given by a school marm/master in arithmetic, spelling and reading and recess using old-time games and toys.  Rocky Branch One-Room School is located 13 miles east of Rogers. 

Available only September-October and April-May.
Available only as a field trip.  Transportation is not provided. 
Two classes may come at a time.  No more than 56 children.
Adult supervision is necessary.  One adult is required for every 10 children.
No pre-school age children will be allowed to attend.
Lunches and drinks are not provided. 
A typical day lasts from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm. 

Sequoyah and the Talking Leaves (K-7)
The son of a white trader and a Cherokee woman, Sequoyah became curious about the “talking leaves,” or written pages, he saw white soldiers reading.  Sequoyah developed the Cherokee alphabet.  He also spent time living in Arkansas.
30 minutes 

A Stamp Away: The History of Mail Service in Northwest Arkansas (2-5)
This program will identify milestones in the history of mail services from the early years of the pony express to present-day methods of shipping overnight by airplane.  Includes a PowerPoint presentation.
30 minutes 

Thanksgiving (K-4)
The history of the Thanksgiving holiday and its traditions will be explored from the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock to the mid 20^th century. As a class, students will prepare one large timeline.
30-45 minutes 

Train Program:  The Frisco Line (K-8)
Students will learn how the coming of the train affected the growth of Rogers.  A slideshow will cover the beginning of the Frisco line in Rogers in 1881 through to the last train in the late 1960s. Includes why train is a better form of transportation than wagon, but wagons still needed.
If this program is presented at the museum, a tour of the Frisco Caboose is included. 
30 minutes (1 hour if touring caboose)

Transformation of Transportation (K-5)
The program will look at the history of transportation and its impact on the city of Rogers.  The economics of a growing population and the new technologies that developed as a result of new modes of transportation will be explored.  Includes a PowerPoint presentation.
1 hour 

Valentine Program (K-4)
This program will look at why we celebrate Valentines Day and the meanings behind some of the traditions. Students will learn how making Valentine cards began as a small operation in a home and developed into an industry using mass production. Program ends with I Love Lucy video clip of Lucy and Ethel in chocolate factory.  Includes Assembly Line card-making activity.
1 hour 

Walking Tour of Downtown Rogers (2-7)
During a walking tour of historic downtown Rogers, students will explore the lives of the people who lived and worked in our downtown throughout the history of Rogers.  Follow-up activities will reinforce the concept that it took many of the same kinds of people, businesses, and services to make a community work in the past as it takes today. Lesson is a 2 block walk during which students place magnets on a metal board.
Available at the museum only.
1 ½ hour
No more than 28 students. 

Wagons Ho (K-2)
Students will become aware of how much sacrifice families made as they made their way west in a covered wagon.  Scarcity is emphasized.
30 minutes 

Warm Winter Comforts (K-2)
Students will learn about different methods of keeping warm and how they have changed. These methods include a heated brick, a comfortable quilt, and a variety of clothes.
30 minutes