Learning Guides

oillearningguide: Oil Exhibit Learning Guide

This guide is intended for the classroom teacher in preparing students of grades 4 - 8 for a tour of the oil exhibition at the Kern County Museum. The content presented for the exhibition will provide background knowledge to make your visit to the museum more meaningful. Pre-visit activities have been provided to assist teachers in preparing students for a tour of the oil exhibition, as well as providing teaching moments for the classroom that align with state content standards. Post-visit activities have been designed to assist students in recalling information that was presented during their visit, extending learning beyond the tour of the oil exhibition to the classroom.

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nativelearning: Native American Life Learning Guide

A trip to the Kern County Museum to take part in the Native American Life Program gives classes a closer look at the daily life of the Yokuts people, their skills, pastimes, and the artifacts they left behind, as well as how artifacts are treated to preserve them for future generations. Students also participate in the hands-on activity of grinding acorns. The visit to the museum for the Native American Life Program and the use of this guide are only the beginning. Pre and post classroom activities will provide an experience that will help make history come alive for the students and reinforce the learning that takes place.

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California History Day

The students attending California History Day at the Kern County Museum will have the opportunity to step back in time to when the first European explorers and the settlers that followed them came to the southern San Joaquin Valley. The California History Day has been designed to support the student’s learning of our state’s early history from the days of the first explorers to the early twentieth century. It is not intended to be a complete history, but to support the course of instruction set forth by the state framework and provide concrete learning experiences that students will remember for years to come.

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Living History Day: Frontier Life in Kern County

The Living History Day Program is a historical and cultural experience appropriate for students in grades 5 and 6. Participation in the Living History Day at the Kern County Museum gives students and teachers an opportunity to take a step back in time to the early settlements of the West. As they move throughout the museum grounds, particpants will experience hands on activities, crafts, and demonstrations representing some of the daily tasks of early settlers. Topics for Living History Day may include wood carving, corn husk dolls, rope-making, basket weaving, apple peeling, making bobbin lace, old fashioned wood-working, wool carding, butter churning and much, much more.

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