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.

Canal boats tell the story of the first bold man-made trade network, of community cooperation, of the ingenious use of water power. Construct a boat, its mules, people and canal bed in 1/4th" scale. Operate a model lock. With the rich illustrations of Peter Spier's Erie Canal ©1970

Connecticut History for the canal communities: New Haven, Hamden, Cheshire, Southington, Plainville

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. 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.