Museum Educational Resources to Use at Home

The Chandler Museum offers a wealth of educational resources for students, parents, and educators to use from home!

Chandler Museum "Use Local, Teach National" Lesson Plan Series:

Dorothea Lange and Dust Bowl Migrants in Chandler
Olive Goodykoontz and World War II: Perspectives on War
The Prohibition Movement: Arizona Votes
Architecture 101 with Frank Lloyd Wright
Post-war Germany
Zora Folley
Japanese Americans at the Gila River Internment Camp
Forms of Communication: Postcards from the San Marcos Hotel
Cotton in Chandler, World War I
Persuasive Writing

Other Social Studies Lesson Plans:

Family History Journal
Streets of Chandler
Navajo Code Talkers
Centennial Lesson Plans

Experience the popular Tumbleweed Ranch Field Trip from home:

Tumbleweed Ranch Field Trip Description
Red Shed Theater Station
Cotton Station
Morrison Grocery Station
McCroskey House Station

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Social Studies Resources:

Social Studies Mythbusters
Online Social Studies Resources

Learn about important events, people, and places from Chandler's past

Read the Chandler Arizonan newspaper

Discover your new favorite dish with historic Chandler recipes:

Favorite Recipes of the Basha Family
Home Cooking Secrets of Chandler
Pauline Openshaw's Recipe Scrapbook
Chandler Historical Society's Recipes to Remember
Southside Neighborhood: 100 Years of Stories and Recipes

Listen, watch, or read transcripts of Chandler oral histories. 

Explore primary documents from Chandler's history:

Photographs
Postcards
Town and city directories
Yearbooks

Learn about Chandler's unique holiday tradition, the Tumbleweed Tree:

Historic photographs of the Tumbleweed Tree
Earle Barnum's Tumbleweed Tree Scrapbook

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