Outreach to the Classroom
Bring the museum to your classroom or your local group! The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center offers presentations to school and youth groups throughout the state. Programs on Arkansas's African American communities, art, music, politics and entrepreneurship are available. Education Department staff members will travel anywhere in Arkansas free of charge to provide these programs. To schedule a program contact the Education Department at 501-683-3592.
All MTCC programs are tied to the current Arkansas Department of Education Curriculum Frameworks. Click here for a quick reference guide to our Outreach programs and the Curriculum Frameworks.
Freedom Summer
Life Masks
Zin! Pluck! Bang!
Gee, What's Ge
Speaking Up, Speaking Out
Entreprecation
Mosaic Templars of America
Dunbar, "Your Guiding Hand" 1929-1955
Freedom Summer
Grades PK - 2
Maximum group size: 40 students per session
This hands-on program focuses on friendship and civil rights activism in Arkansas through literature and images related to Arkansas's desegregation of public services. This program concludes with participants making friendship bracelets that they can keep as a souvenir.
Life Masks
Grades PK - 4
Maximum group size: 35 students per session
Nationally recognized artist Isaac Scott Hathaway created life and death masks of notable black Americans, including several black Arkansans. After examining the masks of Hathaway as well as other examples of life masks from other cultures and time periods, students will create their own cardboard "life masks."
Zin! Pluck! Bang!
Grades PK - 4
Maximum group size: 40 students per session
This hands-on program focuses on the musical talents of Arkansas-reared, nationally-acclaimed, classical composer William Grant Still. Students will see, hear, and touch different musical instruments and learn about a symphonic orchestra and get a chance to be musicians!
Gee, What's Ge?: Introducing Artist Isaac Scott Hathaway
Grades 2 - 12
Maximum group size: 30 students per session
This hands-on art program introduces students to the nationally recognized art of African American sculptor, ceramicist and illustrator Isaac Scott Hathaway, who created sculptures of notable African Americans.
Speaking Up, Speaking Out
Grades 4 - 12
Maximum group size: 35 students per session
Buttons have been used for decades to express political opinions and were especially popular during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In this program, students will use their artistic ability to design and create their own wearable buttons to speak up and speak out.
"Entreprecation"
Grades 4 - 12
Maximum group size: 50 students per session
This program gives students an understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of Arkansas's African American community in the early twentieth century through an interactive presentation.
Mosaic Templars of America
Grades 5 - 12
Maximum group size: 40 students per session
Students will hear the story of the Mosaic Templars of America, a highly successful and nationally acclaimed Arkansas-based black fraternal organization and business. Students will create their own business/club badges.
Dunbar, "Your Guiding Hand" 1929-1955
Grades 2 to 4 and 7 to 12
Maximum group size: 35 students per session
Students will learn about segregation through an examination of Paul Lawrence Dunbar High School, which was the only high school for blacks in Little Rock, Arkansas between 1929 and 1955. Students will have a chance to create school visors to represent their school spirit.
Curriculum Connections: M.4.3, M.4.4, M.5.9, W.7.AH.7-8.1, W.7.AH.9-12.2, WWP.9.AH.7-8.12
Quick Reference Guide to Arkansas Department of Education Curriculum Frameworks
| Programs |
Grade |
Student Limit |
Program
Length |
Hands
on
Activities |
Curriculm
Frameworks |
|
Freedom Summer
|
PK - 2 |
40 |
40 min |
Y |
H.6.1.7 and H.6.2.8 |
|
Life Masks
|
PK - 4 |
35 |
40-60 min |
Y |
H.6.K.3, H.6.2.3, H.6.3.2, A.1.1, A.2.2 and A.3.7 |
|
Zin! Pluck! Bang!
|
PK - 4 |
40 |
40 min |
Y |
H.6.K.3, H.6.2.3, H.6.3.2, M.1.2, M.5.3 and M.4.4 |
|
Gee, What's Ge
|
2 - 12 |
30 |
1 hour |
Y |
H.6.2.3, W.7.AH.7-8.1, W.7.AH.9-12.2, A.1.1, A.1.2, A.1.5, A.2.1, and A.2.16 |
|
Speaking Up, Speaking Out
|
4 - 12 |
35 |
45 min |
Y |
C.5.5.15, C.6.14, WWP.9.AH.7-8.4 and WWP.9.AH.7-8.4 |
|
Entreprecation
|
4 - 12 |
50 |
45 min |
N |
H.6.4.12, E.8.3.5, and E.8.4.5 |
|
Mosaic Templars of America
|
5 - 12 |
40 |
45 min |
Y |
E.8.4.5, W.7.AH.7-8.1, and W.7.AH.9-12.2 |
|
Dunbar, "Your Guiding Hand" 1929-1955
|
2-4 and 7-12 |
35 |
45 min |
Y |
H.6.2.3, H.6.3.2, H.6.4.12, W.W.P.9.AH.7-8.4 and W.W.P.9AH.9-12.4 |
Quick Reference Guide to Arkansas Department of Education Curriculum Frameworks