Connecticut

Each child will build a display box to sort and test 7 rocks and minerals brought to the Museum from across Connecticut. Each sample will have different properties. Students will learn how rocks are formed as well as the categories and characteristics that distinguish each type. They will learn how to identify the rocks they will categorize. Every student will learn to use and will take home a handheld magnifying lens and mini light.

Canals were the world's first steps towards mass movement infrastructure. Before technology like trains and automobiles, boats were the first vehicles capable of moving large amounts of goods and people from one place to another. All you needed was water and a boat! When there was no water, humans devised a way to create waterways. Humans have dug canals since the time of ancient Egypt and China. Connecticut was once home to a canal that helped open the interior of New England to industry and trade. Each student will learn this history and build their own canal boat with unique features to help it navigate these man-made waterways.

Each student constructs half-inch scale figures and a traditional dwelling of Northeastern Indigenous Peoples. We refer to the Quinnipiac who once lived in the region around the museum. We honor traditions and customs, adapting contemporary materials with the resourcefulness once applied to barks, skins, and shells, students create a diorama of Indigenous Native American life in the past.