Lesson Plans

Selected programs have pre- or post-visit lesson plans to help prepare your students for their Museum visit or reinforce the ideas and topics discussed back in the classroom.

Introduction to the Spurlock Museum

Is this your students’ first visit to a museum? Prepare them for what to expect when they arrive.

Download Introduction to the Spurlock Museum Lesson Plan

What is an Artifact?

To many student visitors, artifacts are old things dug up by archaeologist that have little to do with them. In this lesson, students learn that artifacts can be both old and new and that just one can help them understand a great deal about the culture it comes from.

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