Outreach Trunks

These outreach trunks are available now!
Call 728-3476 x 3 to reserve a trunk for classroom use.
FREE 2-week checkout, renewable with permission and availability.

"Fort Fizzle Trunk"

Students have fun reenacting local history. Pick a character or a group to represent, don a costume, and role play using a script. Learn the tactics and blunders made by 7th Infantry Army Captain Rawn at Fort Fizzle. Discover the challenges faced by Chief Looking Glass and the Nez Perce in passing near present day Lolo, Montana. Historic replicas include an Army cap, 2 uniform shirts, cartridge belt, canteen, trowel bayonet, photographs and maps of the site. Grades 4-9. Call to reserve the trunk for a free 2-week checkout.

Missoula History through Children’s Eyes

This new education history trunk will be available in Fall 2010 for teachers to check out, free of charge, for a 2 week period or presented by a docent.  We are calling it a “Hatbox History Kit”, because the complete trunk can be checked out, or the separate “hatbox” components can be checked out individually, depending on the classroom needs and interests.  This is an ideal option for 3rd graders studying local history.  The hands-on, interactive trunk includes the following components:

1. Introduction - Presettlement, 1700-1850s

2. Children on the Way

3. Children and Their Environment

4. Children at Home

5. Children in Town

6. Children at School and Church

7. Children and Art