Kentucky Pioneers Photo Gallery

Grades 3- 5
Minimum 15/maximum 120 students

In this hands-on/minds-on program students explore the life and hardships of early Kentucky pioneers. Students handle reproduction tools and make predictions about their uses, discovering what the tools “tell us” about people living in frontier Kentucky.  In the galleries, students investigate the history of Kentucky through careful observation of maps, images and primary source artifacts. The program concludes with a live performance about life on the (Kentucky) frontier.

Want to make a day of it?  Our Reservation Specialist can help you add a visit to an additional site that would complement the program.  Possibilities include: Viewing KentuckyShow! at the KY Science Center (one block away),  a visit to Historic Locust Grove (Thursdays only) or a visit to the Blackacre State nature Preserve and Historic Homestead (payments will be made separately at each location)

Core Content:

SS-04-5.1.1 Students will use a variety of primary and secondary sources (e.g. artifacts diaries, timelines) to describe significant events in the history of KY and interpret different perspectives.

SS-04-4.4.1 Students will explain and give examples of how people adapted to/modified the physical environment (e.g. natural resources, physical geography, natural disasters) to meet their needs during the history of KY and explain its impact on the environment today.

SS-04-5.2.2 Students will identify and compare the cultures of diverse groups and explain why people explored and settled in KY.

SS-04-2.3.1 Students will describe various forms of interaction (compromise, cooperation, conflict) that occurred during the early settlement of KY between diverse groups (Native Americans, early settlers).

AH-1.13 Students make sense of ideas and communicate ideas with the visual arts.