Classroom Resources
Curricula
The Willamette Heritage Center has developed a series of curricula for teachers that can be implemented in the classroom. Check out the links lesson plans and more in the links below.
Traveling Trunk Program
Bring the museum experience to your school or home!
Adventures on the Oregon Trail
The Willamette Heritage Center’s Adventures on the Oregon Trail traveling trunk brings an important period in America’s history to life for students in a unique way. Students work in teams in a choose your own adventure format, solving problems, creating strategies, and engaging in the risks, drama and excitement of the trail experience. Hands-on activities, artifacts, games, photographs, prints, books, and primary source documents are included as well as a four-part activity plan.
Learn more about the trunk here.
To request the Adventures on the Oregon Trail Traveling Trunk, click the link below.
The Traveling Trunk will be available again February 2025
Cost: $25 per week (two week rental maximum)
Trunk Pick Up and Return: The trunk can be picked up at the Willamette Heritage Center front desk on the scheduled pick up day during normal business hours. The trunk can be dropped off at the Willamette Heritage Center any time during your reservation period.
Flipgrid
Connect with us on Flipgrid! Flipgrid is an interactive, online education space. Join the discussion on our public grid or use our lessons in your own classes. We’ve added lesson templates to the Disco Library.
Kids in the Archives
- Introduction: Finding kids in our archival collections. How objects tell a story.
- Leona Fast, 1936: A look at life inside the Oregon State Tuberculosis Hospital.
- Haruko Tsukamoto, 1942: Story of one girl’s experiences during the forced removal of people of Japanese ancestry during WWII.