Education
Educational Traveling Trunks
The traveling trunks were created by the Tucson Chapter, NSDAR, to provide teachers with additional educational tools that can help supplement history lesson plans. A resource guide for the teacher is included, and it contains lesson plans, activities and a bibliography enhancing the use of the trunk items.
The chapter developed our first educational traveling trunk based on ideas from the Portable Education Program of the DAR Museum. To promote American history in the community, we decided to create our own Colonial Trunk. We chose to target fifth graders because Colonial times and the Revolutionary War are taught at this level in Arizona schools. Our chapter started working on the trunk in the spring of 2014 and debuted the trunk to a classroom of 32 fifth-grade students in the fall of 2014.
Since our debut, 475 students from four local schools have enjoyed the treasures of our educational traveling trunk, and children from kindergarten to high school have enjoyed the information inside of the traveling trunks. We found that teachers needed at least a month to utilize the materials and resources in the trunk.
The feedback we have received from teachers, parents, and students encouraged us to proceed with additional trunks. There are four educational trunks in circulation:
- George Washington Traveling Trunk
- Colonial Traveling Trunk
- Civil War Traveling Trunk
- Stars and Stripes Traveling Trunk
If you are interested in checking out one of our trucks, please click here to fill out an interest form, or use the links on this page to download a brochure to see which educational trunk is right for your students.
Please download the brochures below to see which educational trunk is right for your students.
George Washington Traveling Trunk
The George Washington Traveling Trunk was put together by the Kachina Society, National Society of the Children of the American Revolution (N.S.C.A.R.), founded in 1895.
The purpose of creating this trunk is to provide teachers with additional educational tools to supplement existing lesson plans on George Washington and the American Revolution. The trunk may be reserved for two to four weeks at a time.
What you will find inside: books, movies, costumes, toys and games, and George Washington’s camp gear!
Civil War Traveling Trunk
The Civil War Traveling Trunk was put together by the Tucson Chapter, NSDAR.
The purpose of creating the trunk is to provide the teacher with additional educational tools that would supplement existing lesson plans on the Civil War.
What you will find inside: books, Union and Confederate uniforms, activities/lesson plans, toys and games, recipes, battlefield maps and much more!
Colonial Traveling Trunk
The Colonial Traveling Trunk was put together by the Tucson Chapter, NSDAR.
The purpose of creating the trunk is to provide the teacher with additional educational tools that would supplement existing lesson plans on Colonial life.
What you will find inside: books, schoolyard games, activities and lesson plans, colonial crafts, recipes, musical instruments, and so much more!
Stars and Stripes Traveling Trunk
The Stars and Stripes Traveling Trunk was put together by the Tucson Chapter, NSDAR.
The purpose of creating this trunk is to provide the teacher with additional educational tools that would supplement existing lesson plans on the United States Constitution, Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights and the United States Flag.
What you will find inside: the United States Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the United States Flag.
Contact us to learn more about our traveling trunks and how to become a member of NSDAR.
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Photos courtesy of Tucson Chapter members and Flickr.
