Bring your campers to Arizona State Museum
or have Arizona State Museum visit your camp!
Exciting Summer Programs: May 23 - June 27, 2008
Journey through the origins, history, and life today of the Native tribes of the southwest. Become familiar with the location, traditions and languages of three tribes. Choose which three groups your program will focus on: Navajo, Hopi and Apache or Seri, Yaqui and O’odham.
What: 1 hour inquiry-based tour includes storytelling and handling of real artifacts. Choose from 2 distinct tours.
Cost: $2 per camper, chaperones & counselors are free
Group size: minimum 12/maximum 30 students, minimum 2 chaperones
What: 2 hour program includes inquiry-based tour and hands-on activities: playing Native American games and making traditional-style crafts such as Yaqui tissue paper flowers, O’odham calendar sticks, Navajo-style carding and weaving, an unique Loteria game, and a fun creative writing activity.
Cost: $4 per camper, chaperones & counselors are free
Group size: minimum 12/maximum 30 students, minimum 2 chaperones
Discover Arizona State Museum’s newest exhibit and explore the art and science of Native American pottery.
What: 1.5 hour program includes guided gallery experience, video of Hopi ceramic artist, and hands on activities: creating your own design for a pot, making a paper pot, pottery puzzles, and a creative writing activity inspired by pottery.
Cost: $3 per camper, chaperones & counselors are free
Group size: minimum 12/maximum 30 students, minimum 2 chaperones
A fun introduction to Navajo history and culture.
What: 1.15 hrs program explores sandpainting and weaving as an important part of Navajo life. Campers make a small weaving and handle real artifacts.
Cost: $100 per presentation; 2nd presentation on same day $75
Group size: minimum 12/maximum 30 students, 1 adult helper required, more preferred
Learn about the desert people, the Tohono O’odham, through cultural objects and stories of the saguaro.
What: 1.15 hrs program includes storytelling, making calendar sticks, and playing Geenz, a Tohono O’odham game of chance.
Cost: $100 per presentation; 2nd presentation on same day $75
Group size: minimum 12/maximum 30 students, 1 adult helper required, more preferred
Learn about Mexico’s history and culture through mask-making traditions. Discover the role of Tigre, the intrigue of lucha libre’s masked fighters, and how masks and musical instruments are used in indigenous cultures.
What: 1.15 hrs program includes stories, mask making and playing a game of Traditional Musical Instrument Loteria.
Cost: $100 per presentation; 2nd presentation on same day $75
Group size: minimum 12/maximum 30 students, 1 adult helper required, more preferred
Don’t Wait!
Book your program today.
- Call 520-621-9434 or email asmedu@email.arizona.edu to book a program.
- Prepayment required. Make your check payable to University of Arizona.
(Sorry, no refunds.)
- Mail your payment to
Education
Arizona State Museum, PO Box 210026,
Tucson, AZ 85712
- Come on time for your program and enjoy!
