Travelers' Rest Field Trip Offerings

Program description: From arrow toss to double-ball, your students will love this opportunity to play traditional Salish games while learning more about what life was like for the people who lived here at the place they called "No Salmon." Specific activities vary depending on age level.

Appropriate grade level: K-12th
Time required: 30-60 minutes

Montana Curriculum Content Standards addressed:

Social Studies Content Standards:
3. Students apply geographic knowledge and skills (e.g. location, place, human/environment interactions, movement, and regions).
4. Students demonstrate an understanding of the effects of time, continuity, and change on historical and future perspectives and relationships.

Communication Arts Content Standards (Speaking and Listening):
1. Students demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the communication process.

Health Enhancement Content Standards:
2. Students apply movement concepts and principles while learning and developing motor skills.
7. Students demonstrate health-enhancing behaviors.

IEFA Essential Understandings Regarding Montana Indians addressed:
1. There is great diversity among the 12 tribal Nations of Montana in their languages, cultures, histories and governments. Each Nation has a distinct and unique cultural heritage that contributes to modern Montana.
2. There is great diversity among individual American Indians as identity is developed, defined, and redefined by entities, organizations, and people. A continuum of Indian identity, unique to each individual, ranges from assimilated to traditional. There is no generic American Indian.

Program Description: When Lewis and Clark arrived in the Bitterroot Valley in 1805, they entered a place that had been home to the Salish people for thousands of years.  Learn a little about the Salish people's way of life, changes that took place very rapidly with U.S expansion, and how they were - and still are - affected by such changes.

Appropriate grade level: 4th-12th
Time required: 45 minutes

Montana Curriculum Content Standards addressed:

Social Studies Content Standards:
3. Students apply geographic knowledge and skills (e.g. location, place, human/environment interactions, movement, and regions).
4. Students demonstrate an understanding of the effects of time, continuity, and change on historical and future perspectives and relationships.
6. Students demonstrate an understanding of the impact of human interaction and cultural diversity on societies.

Science Content Standards:
5. Students, through the inquiry process, understand how scientific knowledge and technological developments impact communities, cultures, and societies.
6. Students understand historical developments in science and technology.

Mathematics Content Standards:
1. Students engage in the mathematical processes of problem-solving and reasoning, estimation, communication, connections and applications, and using appropriate technology.
5. Students demonstrate an understanding of measurable attributes and an ability to use measurement processes.

Communication Arts Content Standards (Speaking and Listening):
1. Students demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the communication process.

IEFA Essential Understandings regarding Montana Indians addressed:
1. There is great diversity among the 12 tribal Nations of Montana in their languages, cultures, histories and governments. Each Nation has a distinct and unique cultural heritage that contributes to modern Montana.
2. There is great diversity among individual American Indians as identity is developed, defined and re-defined by entities, organizations and people. A continuum of Indian identity, unique to each individual, ranges from assimilated to traditional. There is no generic American Indian.
3. The ideologies of Native traditional beliefs and spirituality persist into modern day life as cultures, traditions, and languages are still practiced by American Indian people and are incorporated into how tribes govern and manage their affairs. Additionally, each tribe has its own oral histories, which are as valid as written histories. These histories pre-date the "discovery" of North America.
4. Reservations are lands that have been reserved by the tribes for their own use through treaties, statutes, and executive orders and were not "given" to them. The principle that land should be acquired from the Indians only through their consent with treaties involved three assumptions:
I. Both parties to treaties were sovereign powers.
II. Indian tribes had some form of transferable title to the land.
III. Acquisition of Indian lands was solely a government matter not to be left to individual colonists.
5. Federal policies, put into place throughout American history, have affected Indian people and still shape who they are today. Much of Indian history can be related through several major federal policy periods.
6. History is most often related through the subjective experience of the teller. With the inclusion of more and varied voices, histories are being rediscovered and revised. History told from an Indian perspective frequently conflicts with the stories mainstream historians tell.

Program Description: Including everything from clothing to flintlock weapons and navigational equipment, Travelers' Rest's large collection of replica items illustrates what life was like for explorers in the early 19th century. This collection students the opportunity to "relive history" during this interactive presentation, which features stories from the Lewis and Clark expedition's journey through what is now western Montana. Younger students (grades K-2) can investigate replica items through a fun, hands-on matching game.

Appropriate grade level: K–12th
Time required: 30-45 minutes

Montana Curriculum Content Standards addressed:

Social Studies Content Standards:
3. Students apply geographic knowledge and skills (e.g. location, place, human/environment interactions, movement, and regions).
4. Students demonstrate an understanding of the effects of time, continuity, and change on historical and future perspectives and relationships.
6. Students demonstrate an understanding of the impact of human interaction and cultural diversity on societies.

Science Content Standards:
5. Students, through the inquiry process, understand how scientific knowledge and technological developments impact communities, cultures, and societies.
6. Students understand historical developments in science and technology.

Communication Arts Content Standards (Literature):
5. Students use literary works to enrich personal experience and to connect to the broader world of ideas, concepts, and issues.

Communication Arts Content Standards (Speaking and Listening):
1. Students demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the communication process.

IEFA Essential Understandings regarding Montana Indians addressed:
1. There is great diversity among the 12 tribal Nations of Montana in their languages, cultures, histories and governments. Each Nation has a distinct and unique cultural heritage that contributes to modern Montana.
6. History is most often related through the subjective experience of the teller. With the inclusion of more and varied voices, histories are being rediscovered and revised. History told from an Indian perspective frequently conflicts with the stories mainstream historians tell.

Program Description: In keeping with President Thomas Jefferson's mandate for the expedition, Captains Lewis and Clark, their Sergeants, and Private Whitehouse kept detailed journals about their trip across the continent. In this program, students hear what the expedition members had to say when they visited Travelers' Rest while trying to decipher their 19th century descriptions of plants and animals. Students also make their own careful observations and write a journal entry to record their experience at Travelers' Rest.

Appropriate grade level: K-12th
Time required: 45 minutes – 2 hours

Montana Curriculum Content Standards addressed:

Social Studies Content Standards:
3. Students apply geographic knowledge and skills (e.g. location, place, human/environment interactions, movement, and regions).

Science Content Standards:
3. Students, through the inquiry process, demonstrate knowledge of characteristics, structures, and functions of living things, the process and diversity of life, and how living organisms interact with each other and their environment.
6. Students understand historical developments in science and technology.

Mathematics Content Standards:
1. Students engage in the mathematical processes of problem-solving and reasoning, estimation, communication, connections and applications, and using appropriate technology.
5. Students demonstrate an understanding of measurable attributes and an ability to use measurement processes.

Communication Arts Standards (Reading):
1. Students construct meaning as they comprehend, interpret, and respond to what they read.

Communication Arts Standards (Speaking and Listening):
1. Students demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the communication process.

Arts Content Standards:
1. Students create, perform/exhibit, and respond in the Arts.
6. Students make connections among the Arts, other subject areas, life, and work.

Health Enhancement Content Standards:
7. Students demonstrate health-enhancing behaviors.

IEFA Essential Understandings regarding Montana Indians addressed:
1. There is great diversity among the 12 tribal Nations of Montana in their languages, cultures, histories and governments. Each Nation has a distinct and unique cultural heritage that contributes to modern Montana.
5. Federal policies, put into place throughout American history, have affected Indian people and still shape who they are today. Much of Indian history can be related through several major federal policy periods.
6. History is most often related through the subjective experience of the teller. With the inclusion of more and varied voices, histories are being rediscovered and revised. History told from an Indian perspective frequently conflicts with the stories mainstream historians tell.

Program Description: Walk in the footsteps of the Lewis and Clark expedition at Travelers' Rest, the only archeologically confirmed campsite along the entire Lewis and Clark Trail. In this program, students learn about the scientific process and the technology used to pinpoint the location of the Travelers' Rest site while viewing the areas that were excavated in 2002 to uncover the expedition's campfire and latrine.

Appropriate grade level: 4th-12th
Time required: 45 -60 minutes

Montana Curriculum Content Standards addressed:

Social Studies Content Standards:
3. Students apply geographic knowledge and skills (e.g. location, place, human/environment interactions, movement, and regions).

Science Content Standards:
4. Students, through the inquiry process, demonstrate knowledge of the composition, structures, processes, and interactions of Earth's systems and other objects in space.
5. Students, through the inquiry process, understand how scientific knowledge and technological developments impact communities, cultures, and societies.

Mathematics Content Standards:
5. Students demonstrate an understanding of measurable attributes and an ability to use measurement processes.

Communication Arts Standards (Speaking and Listening):
1. Students demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the communication process.

Health Enhancement Content Standards:
7. Students demonstrate health-enhancing behaviors.

Program Description: By studying the Corps of Discovery's activities at Travelers' Rest, students will learn that the members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition wore many hats, including that of explorer, naturalist, and researcher. This field trip includes the Journaling for Jefferson, Archaeology at Travelers' Rest, and Relive History with Replicas programs. Refer to these individual program descriptions for details.

Appropriate grade level: 4th-7th
Time required: 2 hours

Montana Curriculum Content Standards addressed:

Social Studies Content Standards:
3. Students apply geographic knowledge and skills (e.g. location, place, human/environment interactions, movement, and regions).
4. Students demonstrate an understanding of the effects of time, continuity, and change on historical and future perspectives and relationships.
6. Students demonstrate an understanding of the impact of human interaction and cultural diversity on societies.

Science Content Standards:
3. Students, through the inquiry process, demonstrate knowledge of characteristics, structures, and functions of living things, the process and diversity of life, and how living organisms interact with each other and their environment.
4. Students, through the inquiry process, demonstrate knowledge of the composition, structures, processes, and interactions of Earth's systems and other objects in space.
5. Students, through the inquiry process, understand how scientific knowledge and technological developments impact communities, cultures, and societies.
6. Students understand historical developments in science and technology.6. Students understand historical developments in science and technology.

Mathematics Content Standards:
1. Students engage in the mathematical processes of problem-solving and reasoning, estimation, communication, connections and applications, and using appropriate technology.
5. Students demonstrate an understanding of measurable attributes and an ability to use measurement processes.

Communication Arts Standards (Reading):
1. Students construct meaning as they comprehend, interpret, and respond to what they read.

Communication Arts Content Standards (Literature):
5. Students use literary works to enrich personal experience and to connect to the broader world of ideas, concepts, and issues.

Communication Arts Standards (Speaking and Listening):
1. Students demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the communication process.

Arts Content Standards:
1. Students create, perform/exhibit, and respond in the Arts.
6. Students make connections among the Arts, other subject areas, life, and work.

Health Enhancement Content Standards:
7. Students demonstrate health-enhancing behaviors.

IEFA Essential Understandings regarding Montana Indians addressed:
1. There is great diversity among the 12 tribal Nations of Montana in their languages, cultures, histories and governments. Each Nation has a distinct and unique cultural heritage that contributes to modern Montana.
5. Federal policies, put into place throughout American history, have affected Indian people and still shape who they are today. Much of Indian history can be related through several major federal policy periods.
6. History is most often related through the subjective experience of the teller. With the inclusion of more and varied voices, histories are being rediscovered and revised. History told from an Indian perspective frequently conflicts with the stories mainstream historians tell.

Program Description: As ordered by President Jefferson, Lewis and Clark were to take careful observations of latitude and longitude at all remarkable points along the expedition's route. By making their own sextants and using compasses to complete an orienteering course, students will learn hands-on about historic navigation, its influence on exploration and commerce, and the similarities and differences between modern navigational technologies and historic methods. 

Appropriate grade level: 6th-12th 
Time required: 2 hours

Montana Curriculum Content Standards addressed:

Social Studies Content Standards:
3. Students apply geographic knowledge and skills (e.g. location, place, human/environment interactions, movement, and regions).

Science Content Standards:
4. Students, through the inquiry process, demonstrate knowledge of the composition, structures, processes, and interactions of Earth's systems and other objects in space.
5. Students, through the inquiry process, understand how scientific knowledge and technological developments impact communities, cultures, and societies.
6. Students understand historical developments in science and technology.

Mathematics Content Standards:
1. Students engage in the mathematical processes of problem-solving and reasoning, estimation, communication, connections and applications, and using appropriate technology.
2. Students demonstrate understanding of and ability to use numbers and operations.
4. Students demonstrate understanding of shape and an ability to use geometry.
5. Students demonstrate understanding of measurable attributes and an ability to use measurement processes.

Communication Arts Standards (Speaking and Listening):
1. Students demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the communication process.

IEFA Essential Understandings regarding Montana Indians addressed:
1. There is great diversity among the 12 tribal Nations of Montana in their languages, cultures, histories and governments. Each Nation has a distinct and unique cultural heritage that contributes to modern Montana.
3. The ideologies of Native traditional beliefs and spirituality persist into modern day life as tribal cultures, traditions, and languages are still practiced by many American Indian people and are incorporated into how tribes govern and manage their affairs.

Program Description: Join us in a guided exploration of Travelers' Rest's beautiful riparian area and investigate the variety of habitats, plants, and animals that occur here.  Depending on age level and season, activities may include plant identification, nature journaling, wildlife observation, ecology games, field research, watershed education, and more.

Appropriate grade level: K -12th
Time required: 1-3 hours

Montana Curriculum Content Standards addressed:

Social Studies Content Standards:
3. Students apply geographic knowledge and skills (e.g. location, place, human/environment interactions, movement, and regions).

Science Content Standards:
3. Students, through the inquiry process, demonstrate knowledge of characteristics, structures, and functions of living things, the process and diversity of life, and how living organisms interact with each other and their environment.
4. Students, through the inquiry process, demonstrate knowledge of the composition, structures, processes, and interactions of Earth's systems and other objects in space.

Communication Arts Content Standards (Speaking and Listening):
1. Students demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the communication process.

Arts Content Standards:
1. Students create, perform/exhibit, and respond in the Arts.
6. Students make connections among the Arts, other subject areas, life, and work.

Health Enhancement Content Standards:
7. Students demonstrate health-enhancing behaviors.

IEFA Essential Understandings regarding Montana Indians addressed:
1. There is great diversity among the 12 tribal Nations of Montana in their languages, cultures, histories and governments. Each Nation has a distinct and unique cultural heritage that contributes to modern Montana.
3. The ideologies of Native traditional beliefs and spirituality persist into modern day life as cultures, traditions, and languages are still practiced by American Indian people and are incorporated into how tribes govern and manage their affairs. Additionally, each tribe has its own oral histories, which are as valid as written histories. These histories pre-date the "discovery" of North America.

Program Description: Bring the field trip to your classroom! From October - March, we can bring one of our popular field trip programs to you and your students. We will bring some of our replica artifacts and program supplies for a one hour presentation in the classroom.

Appropriate grade level: 3rd-8th
Time required: 1 Hour Per Class

Other Details:

Programs Available
Reliving History with Replicas
Salish Timeline

Maximum Students Per Program
We can offer this program to a maximum of one classroom (35 students) per 1 hour program. Multiple programs in one day are available. For multiple presentations, please allow 10 minutes between each program for material set-up.

Fees
$75 Per Program, Plus Mileage
Discounts Available for Multiple Programs