Arkansas Frontier Traveling Suitcase

Traveling Suitcases – Arkansas Frontier: 1540–1840

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Travel with your students back in time to the year 1809 and explore the Arkansas Frontier.  This traveling suitcase exhibit provides frontier activities for Math, Language Arts, and Social Studies, including various hands-on activities.

This traveling suitcase exhibition was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Materials list:

1. Books
2. Apples to Oregon
3. Black Frontiers
4. Life on a Pioneer Homestead
5. Papa and the Pioneer Quilt
6. Pioneer Life from A to Z
7. Pioneer Projects
8. Schoolyard Games
9. The Prairie Schooners
   1. Candles (3 short, 3 tall)
   2. Coonskin Cap
   3. Dowel Rods (6)
   4. Glass Jars
   5. Handbag (rag–doll inside and spectacles)
   6. Leather Possible Bags (Labeled Names, Fates, and Possessions)
   7. Lesson Plan Book
   8. Measuring Tape (1)

10. Popsicle Sticks

11. Slide–Show Disk

12. String (to be used with Wagon Wheel)

13. Targets (4)

14. Trading Post (dollhouse)

15. Wagon–Wheel (Outside case) 

 Click here for Arkansas Curriculum frameworks for this exhibit