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Each of our fifteen Museum to You Boxes is a self-contained, ready to use, hands-on learning unit with a complete educator guide. The boxes explore topics of our region's Natural History and Cultural History. Many boxes meet Washington State's Essential Academic Learning Requirements (EALR's). Last year approximately 6,800 students from pre-kindergarten through college were fortunate to experience these boxes.
Boxes may be reserved up to three weeks. Reservations are made on a "first come, first serve" basis. Boxes may be picked up and returned to the Museum Tuesday through Saturday between 10 am and 3:30 pm. Fee: $15 per week.
Contact Michelle Loudon, Education Coordinator at 888-6249 or m.loudon@wenatcheevalleymuseum.com
to reserve a box.
Natural History Boxes
Bird Box: Soar into the wonderful world of birds with this introductory box. Includes specimens, feathers, nests, eggs, and books.
Birds of Prey: Investigate the features and ecology of Washington's eagles, hawks and owls. Includes specimens, video, owl pellet dissection, and activities.
Butterflies: Investigate beautiful butterflies and their important place in our eco-system. Includes specimens, video, activities and posters.
Fin Bin & Wild Salmon: Explore the life cycle of salmon. Includes specimens, activities, videos, Check-out for 1 week only in Sept.
Plant Discovery: Explore the rich plant life of Eastern Washington Includes curriculum, posters, books, flower model, videos.
Plants for People: Take a tour of the natural "grocery store" found in plants growing on the Columbia Plateau. Includes slide show with script, plant samples, poster and activities.
Sagebrush Sam: Join Sagebrush Sam on a hike to explore the diversity of plants and animals adapted to Central Washington's arid lands. Includes slide show with script, poster, and accompanying activities
Water & Bug: Examine life above and below the water line. Includes curriculum, posters, videos, and water quality test kits.
Wolf Box: Use skulls, hides, tracks and scat to examine the magnificent, and often maligned, wolves. Includes specimens, videos, cassettes and reference books.
Cultural History Boxes
Clovis Culture: Use archaeological data from the internationally recognized East Wenatchee Clovis Site to learn about people who lived on the Columbia Plateau 11,000 years ago. Includes artifact replicas, bones, slide show, maps.
Mexican Art Adventure: Celebrate the art, culture, and history surrounding Mexico's El Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) holidays. Includes curriculum, artifacts, prints, and art projects.
Pioneer Life: Experience pioneer life the 1890's. Discover how everyday tasks were done and what kids used to do for fun! Includes artifacts, books, activities.
Trading Post: This lively readers theater play introduces the fur traders, Native Americans, Chinese miners, and settlers who came through Wenatchees Miller-Freer Trading Post in the 1880s. Includes script, costumes, and artifacts.
Wenatchi Culture: Learn about the resilient, resourceful culture of the Wenatchi Indian people. Includes script, overheads, artifacts. and activities.
Visit With Mrs. Johnson: Investigate Central Washington dry-land farming and water use around 1905. Includes scripts and costumes, artifacts, video.
Visit With Mrs.Tibbets: Discover the impact of water on turn-of-the-century life along our local rivers. Includes scripts and costumes, artifacts, video.
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