Old Independence Regional Museum’s Fall Home School Day Monday, October 2nd (Posted by Ginger Smith)
Fall Home School Day Program
Old Independence Regional Museum has scheduled our Fall Home School Day for Monday, October 2nd from 9 am to Noon. Cost for the program is $5 per participating student and pre-registration is required. The registration deadline is September 25th. The theme for the program will be World War I.
Students will learn about World War I and its impact on our region and its people. During the program, participants will learn about aviation and its role in the war, mining in the region, food and voluntary rationing, the 1918 flu epidemic, inventions of the war and how animals were used in the war effort.
Students will be divided by ages into three groups and will complete six different program stations. In the first round of programs children will learn about the use of planes in the war effort at the Aviation station. They will make a wooden model airplane to take home. During the epidemic portion of the program the students will help conduct a simple science experiment to demonstrate how fast the flu virus can spread. At the invention station the students will learn about items that were improved and even invented for use in the war effort. They will also view a WWI helmet, pick and shovel and a tank periscope from the Museum collections.
In the second round of programs students will learn about voluntary rationing and will sample a cake made using a period recipe at the food station. In the mining station, they will learn about how the mines in our area helped the war effort and they will learn about identifying rocks and minerals. Each child will receive a rock/mineral sample to take home. At the animal station they will discover how animals like glow worms, pigeons and even slugs were used in the war. They will also make an animal related craft to take home.
This humanities program was made possible in part by a grant from the Department of Arkansas Heritage, funded by your 1/8 cent conservation tax, Amendment 75, local support from Independence County and the City of Batesville, as well as by Challenge Grant Endowment funding from the National Endowment of the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Normal museum hours are: Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is $3.00 for adults, $2.00 for seniors and $1.00 for children. The museum is located at 380 South 9th street, between Boswell and Vine Streets in Batesville. Telephone: 870.793.2121.
Old Independence is a regional museum serving a 12-county area: Baxter, Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Marion, Poinsett, Sharp, Stone, White, and Woodruff. Parts of these present-day counties comprised the original Independence County in 1820’s Arkansas territory.
