Schools and
Teachers
Learning
history is easier and more fun with participation in one of the school
days programs at the Stagecoach Inn Museum Complex.
Chumash Program
(Third Grade)
The
Chumash tour offers students the opportunity to pretend they
are the original
inhabitants of the Conejo Valley and lived here many years ago.
This tour includes "hands on" experiences such
as drawing Chumash pictographs, playing Chumash games, listening
to Chumash legends,
pounding acorns and making rope from the yucca plant fiber.
Pioneer
Days Program (Fourth Grade)
The
Pioneer Days tour allows the students to participate in children's
activities
from over one hundred years ago in the Conejo Valley. The many "hands
on" experiences include baking, washing clothes, beating
rugs, dancing, soaping a horse's saddle, attending an authentic
pioneer
school and panning for gold as pioneers did in other parts of
California.
Western Movement
Program (Fifth Grade)
The
Westward Movement tour challenges the students by exposing them
to ideas and
experiences from the middle of the 1800s. The swift creation
of an American Commonwealth by multitudes of adventurous
people in the "Wild
West," the gold rush in 1849, California statehood in 1850,
the use of land and resources, and the creative expression of
the people through folk dance, stories, music and crafts are
explored.
All three
tours follow the suggested California State curriculum. Follow up
lesson plans are given to the teachers.
