Teaching Trunks may be one of the coolest resources we provide to schools all over the midwest. If a school requests our teaching trunk for a semester regardless of where they are, we will find a way to ship it to them. This week Alexis and I inventoried, stocked, and assembled six trucks. Our trunks range from 5th to 12th grade and the materials vary based upon the schools curriculum. In Illinois, Holocaust Education is a mandatory subject and everyone is required by the state mandate to provide Holocaust Education for their students.
We began the process weeks ago when we found out that we were receiving several more trunks allowing us to provide more schools with this unique teaching experience. Each trunk is donated to the Education Center and a plaque is then cemented to the trunk in honor of the donor/s.
After spending the last month going through our inventory and ordering the books, dvds, and binders we were missing we are now able to get them fully up and running. This past week we put together one 5-6th grade trunk, four 7-8th grade trunks, and one 9-12th grade trunk. Each trunk reflects not only the teachers curriculum but the level of information we feel the students in the age group will be ready to encounter in a classroom.
The materials used in these trunks are ABSOLUTELY incredible. There are so many books I have found and begun reading just from inventorying the trunks. Each school pays a $200 deposit which is returned to them upon the return of the trunk to our facility. Only $200 dollars...I wish we had the resources to provide every school with a trunk because this literature is incredible and every student should be able to partake in this kind of learning experience.
http://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/pages/teaching_trunk_program/59.php
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