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Traveling
Trunks
Large
trunks filled with reproduction primary source artifacts and documents
that travel to your classroom for a three-week rental. Also include
lessons plans, activity suggestions, worksheets, and audiovisuals.
$55 for three week rental plus return shipping
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Three-week
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Fees:
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$55
($49.50) includes one-way postage to your site
Trunks will be shipped by UPS.
You will be responsible for the cost of return postage.
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Call 410- 685-3750, ext. 334 to book a trunk. Confirmation letters
will be sent as soon as a trunk is booked.
Colonial
Maryland: Building a New World (Grades
3-8)
Explore everyday life in early Maryland from the settlement at St.
Mary’s City in 1634 to the growth of towns and a thriving
economy in the mid-1700s. Compare and contrast life in these two
centuries as you work with primary sources and study real Marylanders
through a variety of hands-on activities. Discover how Maryland’s
settlers created a new way of life in Lord Baltimore’s colony.
Students will interpret primary sources and will learn about the
earliest settlement of Maryland, as well as daily life and early
economic activity in the colony.
Forgotten
Folk: Maryland Indians (Grades
K-5)
Bringing the lives of Native Americans, past and present, to life,
this trunk offers a rich assortment of artifacts including clothing,
archeological relics, and natural history specimens. Students will
analyze the social characteristics of societies native to Maryland
and identify ways Maryland Indians adapted to and used the natural
world.
Tools
of the Historian
(Grades 3-12)
How do historians study the past? This kit offers student- and teacher-
directed activities emphasizing the strengths and limitations of
primary sources, including documents, photographs, objects, oral
histories and more.
Growing
Up in Maryland 100 Years Ago (Grades
K-5)
Introduce the study of history through the stories of children who
lived 100 years ago. Students can try on clothes, play 19th-century
games, and complete school lessons of the time period.
Revolutionary
War Haversack: Marching with the Maryland Line (Grades
3-5)
Students learn about the daily life of a Revolutionary soldier by
examining the contents of this haversack.
A Stitch in Time: Quilts (Grades
K-12)
This trunk demonstrates how quilts have the capacity to tell a story.
Using hands-on quilting objects, quilting games, and reading materials,
students will discover stories of women free and enslaved.
Call
410- 685-3750, ext. 334 to book a trunk.
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