History Trunks Available
Check out to take to your classroom
by Anne Shadwick
Southwest Center History Trunks
You may check out these trunks for your classroom or contact Marti Pittman (Marti@southwestcenter.org or Charlene Casady (charlene@southwestcenter.org) and they will teach a lesson for you, free of charge.
For information on contents and pictures of each trunk, click on the titles below.
1. The Gilded Age high school Marlene Moran
2. Childrens Literature During the Truman Era RubyBridges, Sadako and Harry Truman biography - elementary level Anita Troth
3. Many Hats of Harry Truman elementary Kathy Marney
4. Civil Rights elementary, junior high and secondary
5. Lewis and Clark--Missouri River elementary and junior high Karen Grimmett and Marsha Dobson
6. Exploring America: The Lewis and Clark Expedition junior high Elissa White
7.Early Settlement and Missouri History elementary and junior high Nicole Boone
8. Life in the Ozarks in Early 20th Century--Farming, Labor and Tomatoes jr high and high school
9. Pioneers: Childrens Games Through History elementary
10. Patriotic Symbols of America elementary Sharon Bramwell
11. Recipe for Citizenship elementary
12. Daniel Boone: Searching Through history for the Man Behind the Myth junior high Marti Pittman
13. Indians in the Ozarks elementary Anita Troth
14. Missouris Quest for Statehood/State Symbols elementary Elissa White
15. Explore the Civil War Using Primary Sources elementary Kim Gilmore
16.World War I Jr High and High school
17. Titanic elementary, junior high and high school
18. Guerilla Warfare in Southwest Missouri During the Civil War junior high Marti Pittman
19. Navigation and Dead Reckoning: Jamestown Virginia elementary, junior high and high school
20. Famous Missourians: Communicating Their Beliefs Across the Continent and Around the World elementary and secondary Karen Grimmett and Marsha Dobson
21. Southwest Missouri and the Surrounding Areas- Places of Prominence in the Civil Wa� �elementary, junior high and high school Rhonda Wyrsch
22. The Civil War in Cedar and Vernon Countieselementary Anita Troth
23. War Torn Missourielementary and junior high Cindy Gray
24. We were In This War, Too: World War II - junior high Marti Pittman
25. We Remember: World War II elementary, junior high and high school � Rhonda Wyrsch
26. Southwest Missouri Mining- elementary--Sharon Bramwell and Linda Boyd
27. Heroes of the Underground Railroad elementary Sharon Bramwell
28. A Day in the Life of a Colonial Child elemenntary Michelle Chancey
29. Child Labor, then and now elementary, jr. high, Lonna Tucker
30. Revolutionary Times elementary Debbie Neill
31. SHH Slavery, Secrets, and Safety: Underground Railroad elementary, middle school, Karen Grimmett
32. Private Yankee Doodle Elementary, jr. high Marti Pittman
33. Civil War elementary and junior high
34. Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of Rum, Pirates elementary, jr. high Crista Bobski
35. Colonial America elementary, jr. high
36. Inventions: Coming to the iEra elementary
37. Immigration junior high school
38. 1893 Chicago World Fair high school
39. Freedom Rocks: Founding Fathers elementary
40. The Bill of Rights Rocks My World elementary and junior high
41. Freedom Rocks: Freedom of Speech high school
42. Japan elementary, middle school Marti Pittman
43. George Washington Carver elementary
44. Laura Ingalls Wilder and the "Little House" Books elementary
45. Teddy Roosevelt: Impact on America and National Parks elementary, junior high and high school
46. Cods and Whales and Ships, OH MY elementary and junior high
47. The Two Peoples of the First Thanksgiving--elementary and junior high
48. Paul Revere and the Shot Heard Round the World
