The Journey Museum Education Department
222 New York Street
Rapid City, SD 57701
605-394-2535
Diane Melvin - Education Director
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	Journaling Our Journeys ($10/2weeks) Target audience: high school students and adults. The project works best in groups of ten. This can be adapted to extra credit assignments for students. Time: 2 hours in the museum and 30 minutes minimum for processing. If time allows, go back through the museum at your own pace, ending with the movie about the Journey Museum. This activity explores the heritage of the cultures of the Black Hills region through introspection and writing. Participants use various journaling strategies while immersed in the museum settings in order to explore writing from a unique point of view. Participants then share insights and discoveries with the full group. There are four activity cards complete with leader scripts and writing prompts. Activity Card #1 "Under the Stars" - Connected to the Constellation Room. Activity Card #2 "Hear the Lakota Drum" - Connected to the stories told by Nellie Two Bulls at her tipi. Activity Card #3 "Catch the Pioneer Spirit" - Connected to the Fur Trapper's Cabin. Activity Card #4 "The Stars and the Hero's Journey" - Back in the Constellation Room with the group leaders help, individuals write about coming full circle. The last card "Process the Process" outlines the exchange when participants share with the full group.
	Inquiry Based Geology in a Box: The Black Hills Rock! ($10/2weeks) Target audience: high school grades 11-12 but can be adapted for other grade levels . Time: 1-4 hours depending on the depth instructors desire for their students. This traveling box contains all that a classroom instructor will need to teach a unit on Black Hills geology. The kit includes rocks and minerals, testing materials to run various lab activities, lab ideas, maps and coordinates. The lab materials and activities are designed as a supplement to instruction, NOT as a stand alone unit on the geology of the Black Hills. It is designed to make students think about what they are learning and to give them ownership into how they learn. Use your best judgment regarding how much background your students receive regarding the forces and processes that formed the Black Hills, utilizing this kit to reinforce your teaching.
	Ledger Art Project ($10/2weeks) Target audience: K-12 Time: 2-5 days (50 minute sessions) This program explores the history or ledger art and the significance of its pictorial record of history. Students apply the historical and cultural concepts in a personal ledger art expression. Major Themes: Native American History in Dakota Territory 1834-1915 History of ledger art Vocabulary development via pictographic illustration Personal ledger art expression. The kit includes a teacher's notebook, reference books, a CD on the history of ledger art with story "The Ledgerbook of Thomas Blue Eagle," and ledger paper.
	Hunting for History ($10/2weeks) Target audience: Ages 13 and Up Time: Approximately 2 hours This is a self guided hunt of the museum with an optional geocaching activity. The brochure is filled with questions to be answered; some of the questions give coordinates for the geocaching activity. The geocaching component adds an actual hidden treasure at the end of the hunt. The real reward is the adventure of learning and the fun in the search. Use your own Global Positioning Systems or museum units are available for check out. A trunk of 10 GPS units are available to schools. Call for details.
	Excursion into Lakota Culture ($10/3weeks) Target audience: grades 7-8 Time: Approximately 2½ weeks (50 minute sessions) This program immerses a group or classroom in Lakota culture and history through the use of videos, vocabulary, reading, art, writing, geography. This kit contains a teacher guide with copy masters, 20 "The South Dakota Story" text books, example of a parfleche, pattern for a buffalo hide winter count, "Song of the Ghost Dance" sheet music, "Canyon Trilogy" flute music CD, "The American Indian's Sacred Ground" DVD, and SD Adventures and SD Public Television Network DVD.
	In My Backyard: In Pursuit of Black Hills Trivia Wolakota (Wol lah koh tah) "All that makes us the Lakota people"($10/2weeks) Target audience: grades 7-8 Time: The game continues until the first team reaches the Crow Fort or time expires. This is a board game designed for fun learning about pioneer life and Native American storytelling and literature. This is the first of six strands. The five others will be added in the next two years. The Wolakota game board illustrates the original winter count created by Lone Dog covering the years 1800-1871. This game is an introduction to Lakota Culture through an exploratory learning activity.
	Buffalo Rawhide Box (presentation requests; not for rent) Target audience: Groups of all ages Time: Approximately 30 min presentation and optional 52 min DVD "Brain Tanning : Bison Robes the Native American Way. This authentic buffalo box is used to store tipi accessories. The box has the bison hair intact and has buckskin thong ties. Our buffalo box contains buffalo soap, bone paint brush, bone awl, stomach, hoof sheaths, shoulder blade, bladder pouch, bladder, foot bone, dew claw, milk teeth, tail, bull horn cap, rawhide, leg bone flesher, deer sinew. The buffalo box is brought out for special tour presentations in the museum or can be requested by a teacher for a presentation in the classroom.