History a la Carte*
90 minutes
4th grade / 50 students
$5 per student
For booking details, call the Museum at 816-483-8300
While Corinthian Hall is currently being renovated in Historic Northeast Kansas City, the Kansas City Museum is offering students a tremendous opportunity to learn about Kansas City and Missouri’s history at Union Station. Students will get an “up close and personal” look at several artifacts and reproductions in Kansas City Museum’s vast collection at Union Station. Students will explore artifacts from the 1800s all the way up to the mid 20th century, and participate in group activities, facilitated by the Kansas City Museum’s education staff.
*only available on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Growing Up in Kansas City
Students will explore original artifacts or selected reproductions representing leisure activities during the mid 20th century.
Students will get “up close and personal” with actual historical objects, including letters, photographs and toys. Students will then take the engaging information they received about the artifacts and in a group, collect their information and present it to the rest of the class.
Students will come away with a stronger understanding of their personal place in history and gain a sense of their own links to the past.
Missouri Grade and Course Level Expectations Supported:
The following 4th grade expectations are targeted in this visit:
Social Studies SS 5, SS7
Communication Arts CA 1, CA 3
Kansas Curriculum Standards:
The following 4th grade expectations are targeted in this visit:
Kansas, United States and World History
Benchmark 4, Indicator 4, 5
Faces of Missouri
Students will explore original artifacts or selected productions, relating or belonging to, several famous Missourians.
Students will create large timelines and create cut-out images, to put these famous Missourians in their place in history, while learning facts about each of these people. Students will also create their own historical journals told from the perspectives of famous Missourians like Loula Long Combs and Alice Nielsen, and group together to play a history-based trivia game.
Missouri Grade and Course Level Expectations Supported:
The following 4th grade expectations are targeted in this visit:
Social Studies SS3, SS7.
Communication Arts CA 3
Paul Mesner Puppet Show
45 Minutes
K-5 students
For booking details, contact the Museum at 816-483-8300
Join the Kansas City Museum as we take students back to the early 1900s and explore early Kansas City through the eyes of one of its “founders” Robert Long.
In 1891, Kansas City welcomed Robert and Ella Long, their proper daughter Sally America and their vivacious, younger daughter, Loula, a lover of horses. The young lumber baron and his family were determined to transform this cow town of saloons and stockyards into a city of distinction with paved streets and civic institutions.
Before your eyes, Paul Mesner’s animated puppets build Corinthian Hall. Loula, in her famously fabulous hats, and an eccentric cast of characters share fascinating historical facts about Kansas City and the secrets of the “Palace on Gladstone Boulevard.”
This work is portable, and can be presented at your school gym or auditorium.
Social Studies Concepts: The Development of Industrial America, Continuity and Change, Production, Distribution and Consumption, Western Expansion
Visual Arts Concepts: The Creative Process and the Artist’s Role, Cultural Styles
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