RESOURCES FOR THE EDUCATOR

The Education Department offers several resources to help enhance your field trip, including gallery worksheets and specialty tours. These resources provide an in-depth learning experience that makes your museum trip a more memorable visit for you and your students.

Worksheets

• Artifact Detective - Any artifact in the museum
  • 1 and 2nd Grade
  • 3rd to 5th Grade
• I Spy – All Galleries
• I Spy - Coming to the Lakes Gallery
• I Spy – Fur Trade
• I Spy – Habitat and Food Webs Gallery
• I Spy – Native American (Coming to the Lakes Gallery)
• Museum Challenge – All galleries
• Museum Challenge – (Teacher's Key)
• Simple Machines Mystery
• Bodyworks Challenge
• Body Works Challenge Key

Exhibit Related Materials

• Coming to the Lakes Information Panels
• Chronicle of Our Century Timeline

Specialty Tours:

Artifact Handling
Program Length: 30 minutes
Grade Level: K-5th grade
Capacity: 30 students
Students will get an opportunity to learn what an artifact is, why it is important, and how the museum takes care of artifacts. Hands-on experience includes students putting on gloves and handling a museum artifact, just like the curators.

Behind the Scenes Tour
Program Length: 45 minutes
Grade Level: 3rd-5th grade
Capacity: 15 students
After a brief introduction to the Muskegon County Museum and how museums function, students will get an opportunity to tour the museum and meet employees to see the work that goes on behind closed doors.

Artifacts Use
The Education Department has several volumes of Muskegon newspapers from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1950s. Educators may use these books during their visit or take them back to the classroom for a hands- on history experience. Call the Education Department at 722-0278 for further details.

Primary Sources

TITLE	PICTURE	DESCRIPTION	DATE
Slave Deed	Image 1 Image 2	Copy of "Bill of Sale" of slave William, known as "Buck" J.W. Powers of Natham Strattan.	1848
Affidavit	Affidavit	Affadavit of Support for the United States; for Louis Leszecz of Austria; sworn by Joseph Stephanitz of Muskegon Heights, foundry worker; Canadian Pacific Steamships from Europe to America.	1922
Lincoln Letter 1-2	Page 1 Page 2	Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln U.S. History.	1863
Round Trip Rates	Booklet	Resorts in West Michigan reached by the G. R. & I. Railroad; G. R. & I. Railroad Advertising booklet for resort area.	1899
Substitution Form & Letter	Form Envelope Letter 1 Letter 2 Letter 3 Letter 4	A substitution certification for David Califf exempting him from military service during the civil war because he supplied a substitution.	1863 - 1864
Hume Indenture	Indenture	Thomas Hume of Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland, indentured to merchant John Stevenson, merchant of Dungannon, Ireland, to learn his trade with consent of his father, William Hume.  Service to start 1st of Sept. 1862 and last for six years; includes meat, drink, lodging.	1862
10 Hours No Sawdust	Flyer	Ten Hours or No Sawdust! A strike flyer for lumbermen.  Lumber workers strike for shorter hours, has been laminated.	1881
Replica Bond	Bond 1 Bond 2	Copy of U.S. War Savings bond Series E for $200 "victory loan."	1945
Helen's Letter	Page 1 Page 2 Page 3	Letter to WWI servicemen as he was going to war, written June 17, 1918.  From Helen M. Hume.  Possibly to previous Sunday School class member.  Mentions Package that is being sent.	1918
German Letter & Translation	Page 1 Page 2 Translation	Handwritten in German.  Letter to his wife telling of recent fighting.  Enclosed in frame, had typewritten translation (b).	1863
557 AAA War Diary	Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4	War Diary.  Mimeographed copy of daily journal of anti-aircraft mechanic stationed in Europe during WWII.	1944-45
Inauguration Ticket	Ticket	Ticket to INAUGURATION OF THE PRESIDENT.  Admit one to House End of Capitol.  March 4, 1889, signature of John G. Carlisle.  Speaker of the House.	1889
World's Fair Ticket	Ticket 1 Ticket 2	World's Columbian Exposition.  Admit the Bearer, Good for One Admission at the Pay Gates.  Picture of George Washington, made to resemble dollar bill.	1893
World's Fair Lincoln Ticket	Ticket 1 Ticket 2	Entrance ticket to World's Columbian Exposition Chicago Admit the Bearer 1st May to 30th Oct. 1893.  Motif of Abraham Lincoln.	1893
Alabama Ticket	Ticket 1 Ticket 2	Goodrich Transit Co. S.S. Alabama lower berth Chicago-Muskegon.	1928
Alpena Ticket	Ticket	Goodrich Transportation Co. Steamer Alpena.  Trip No. 154.  Goodrich Transportation Co. stamp dated Jul. 15, 1880.  One First Class from Muskegon to Chicago.	1880
Ration Books 3 - 4 Mileage Rations	#3 Page 1 #3 Page 2 #4 Page 1     #4 Page 3 #4 Page 2     #4 Page 4	War Ration Book No. 3 and 4.  Belonged to John P. Diendorf and Lulla Diendorf of 1336 Apple Avenue Muskegon, MI.	WWII 1945
Ration Book 3	Page 1 Page 2 Page 3	War Ration Book No. 3 for Roy Bears of 399 W. Webster in Muskegon, c. WWII.  Male, age 48, weight 147 lbs., height 5 ft. 8 in., pipe fitter.	1943
France Rations	Page 1 Page 2	Found at house sale.  Used in France to exempt luxury tax to US soldiers.	1918
Sugar Ration	Page 1 Page 2	Sugar ration from World War I ear.  4  Nov. 1918.	1918
Park Pavilion Ticket	Ticket 1 Ticket 2	Admit the Bearer to Muskegon Street Railway Co.'s Lake Michigan Park Pavilion Entertainment Coupon.	1897