The McCreary County Museum is offering free memberships to interested McCreary County teachers. Our hopes are that with easy, regular access to our publications, programs, and exhibits that we can assist local teachers with learning resources outside the classroom. Click here for details.
The McCreary County Museum offers Preschool through Elementary level treasure hunts. The treasure hunt is an on-site program that engages the student to look at each exhibit in hopes of finding a treasure. The
McCreary County Museum has also created a 36 page local history coloring book that has taken historic places and items from McCreary County and the Museum and compiled them into a fun and educational coloring book for any child that enjoys coloring. Click here for a
FREE coloring Page example.
We encourage educators to contact us via email museum@bsfsry.com or by phone at 606-376-5730 to request information for group guided tours. Please call today for more information! If you are considering bringing a class but want to come in advance to see our location, call and arrange a FREE one-on-one site visit!
Lesson Plans- The Museum is proud to offer the following lesson plans that have been prepared by museum supporters:
Arts and Humanities Lesson Plan
Classifying Rocks Lesson Plan 1
Classifying Rocks Lesson Plan 2
Math Lesson Plan
Educators-
The McCreary County Museum is proud to offer educational programs for educators. This year the Museum will be offering guided tours and services to class groups that wish to take advantage of the McCreary County Museum as an educational resource.
Educational Program & Resources-
As Director of The McCreary County Museum, I have made it my mission to encourage educators and parents within the county and throughout the state to use our local history Museum as a resource for education by making available the following resources:
Save Our History-
The McCreary County Museum would like to encourage all educators to visit the website www.saveourhistory.com. A resource from The History Channel, the Save Our History Educators Manual is available from their website and is "a local history curriculum and project guide, linked to state standards, that will excite and engage your students and help them make a difference in their community. The FREE Save Our History Educational Manual contains unique lessons and classroom activities for 2nd through 12th grades that will help your students gain an appreciation of local heritage. These lessons and activities include oral history and research projects designed to develop the student’s knowledge of local and national history. These programs are written to the national standards suggested by the National Council for History Education, and are easy to implement in any classroom." The History Channel has taken great strides to make history and preservation an important part of education by providing one class lesson plans and easy to understand projects and forms.
The Kentucky Coal Association-
The Kentucky Coal Association offers valuable resources for educators in the Science, Math, Language Arts and Social Studies fields for all grades K-12. Their resources include Classroom Lesson Plans, Coal Educational Resources and a Teacher Outreach Program all FREE at their website www.coaleducation.org.