Educational Outreach Programs
Experience exciting and engaging programs that come right to your classroom!
The museum can travel! Bring the collections and educational resources of The Schiele Museum to your school or event. Our hands-on classes and grade-level presentations illustrate classroom lessons and support curriculum standards.
Outreach Presentations
Assembly-style programs with a maximum attendance of 100.
$300 per presentation.
Outreach Classes
Single-class programs for up to 30 students with guided, hands-on explorations.
$200 per class.
Outreach Displays
Guided tabletop displays and activities designed for curriculum nights, festivals, and special events.
Themes: Animals, American Indians, or Fossils.
$200 per 2-hour session. $50 each additional hour.
OUTREACH PROGRAMS
Outreach Presentation
Meets curriculum for grades: K, 1, 2, 4, 5, & 8
Program can be adapted to meet the learning level of participants.
Study the diversity of the animal kingdom and how animals use adaptations to survive in varying habitats. Program includes live animals and preserved specimens. The museum educator comes to your facility in a presentation-style setting.
Outreach Class
Students will work in pairs to dissect an animal specimen, examining internal structures and identifying organs.
Outreach Class
Meets curriculum for grades: K, 1, 4, & 8.
Investigate the fascinating world of rocks, gems, and minerals! Participants use identification and sorting techniques to find, examine, and classify minerals. Treasure-seekers will keep what they find in this gemstone mining activity.
This program needs to be held outdoors with access to running water (via hose) to operate the portable sluice.
Outreach Presentation
Meets curriculum for grades: K, 2, and 4
Program can be adapted to meet the learning level of participants.
Enter the world of people from long ago and explore how they lived. Students will learn about both the Catawba Indian culture and 18th Century European settlers and their influence on the world around them.
Outreach Class
Conduct experiments and analyze demonstrations to learn about properties of matter and how they are affected by different forms of energy.
Outreach Class
Meets curriculum for grades: 2, 3, & 7
Program can be adapted to meet the learning level of participants.
Travel back in time to explore ancient creatures. Discover how they looked, lived, and interacted with each other by observing real fossils. Students will dig into mini fossil material from the Carolina cost to test their paleontology skills.
Outreach Presentation
Meets curriculum for grades: 5 & 7
Program can be adapted to meet the learning level of participants.
Experience a forecast of hands-on demonstrations! Find out how air, water, sunlight, and gravity combine to create Earth’s weather systems through dynamic demonstrations. The museum educator comes to your facility and presents in a presentation-style setting.
Outreach Class
Meets curriculum for grades: K – 3
Program can be adapted to meet the learning level of participants.
Let the Schiele bring everyone’s favorite fall fruit to your school! Museum staff will bring a set up a pumpkin patch with a pumpkin for each student to take home! Participants will explore the history of pumpkins and their many uses across the world!
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The Schiele Museum’s education programs address critical standards for public education. For specific curriculum standards met by our programs, questions or reserve a field trip or outreach, please contact our Group Scheduling Coordinator, Stephanie Austin, at stephaniea@cityofgastonia.com or 704-854-6676.
