Educators and a guest are invited to experience all that the National Cowboy Museum offers teachers and students! Museum education staff, curators and docents showcase available educational resources, preview student tours, and lead Museum Vault tours. Guests are also invited to explore Museum galleries on their own. Refreshments and a cash bar are available. Limited to K – 12 educators and students teachers plus one guest. This event is free; however, pre-registration is required by November 29. This event is for…
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December 2019
February 2020
Join us for a professional development opportunity for teachers of grades 5 –12 at the National Cowboy Museum in collaboration with the College of Education and Professional Studies, University of Central Oklahoma. Best known for her Migrant Mother photograph, Dorothea Lange’s body of work touched on provocative social and political issues throughout her career, including Japanese internment, racial segregation and Civil Rights. This workshop focuses on Lange’s social and political activism in the 20th century as seen through her lens.…
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Socialize after hours during a free K – 12 professional development session at the National Cowboy Museum. Seth Hopkins, executive director of the Booth Western Art Museum and curator of Warhol in the West, leads educators on a tour of the exhibit, featuring Warhol’s Cowboys and Indians portfolio, the last major project before his death. It includes images of 14 iconic Western subjects such as Custer, Geronimo and John Wayne. Participants will: Explore Warhol and the West with exhibit curator…
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Educators are invited to be among the first to see Liichokoshkomo’!, Outdoor Education Experience, an interactive, multi-cultural space that introduces the American West through science, technology, engineering, arts, math, and citizenship in an immersive hands-on, minds-on environment. Enjoy light refreshments and explore this new educational space at this special event just for K – 12 educators and student teachers. (Educators may bring one guest.) Museum staff will also be available to schedule field trips for the 2020 – 2021 school…
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