High Desert Museum: School Festivals

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Festivals

Festivals at the Museum

Each festival for grades K-8 focuses on a particular theme.  Multiple stations are set up around the Museum featuring hands-on activities and opportunities for learning.  Students and chaperones explore in small groups at their own pace.

Admission: $5.50 per student; teachers and chaperones are free.
Time:  9:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Festivals sponsored in part by:

Project WET     Water Education for Teachers

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"Make A Splash!" Water Festival


Thursday,  October 2 : Grades K-3

Friday,  October 3: Grades 4-8 

Kick off the 2007-2008 school year with this popular school event which features hands-on activities and stations throughout the Museum.

Topics include:

Water cycles - water quality - habitats - wildlife - conservations - art classes - properties of water pollution - storytelling . . .  and more

 

"Frontier Days" Festival  -

Please check register early - last year sold out!

Wednesday,  April 22:  Schools outside the Bend/LaPine school district

Thursday,  April 23:  Grades k-3

Friday,  April 24:  Grades 4-8

Experience life in the 1880s in the High Desert, and see it from many points of view.  This hands-on, unique living history event offers diverse, interactive features which may include:

Buckaroos and roping- washing clothes- churning butter- homestead skills- crosscut sawing- Native American traditions- Oregon Trail- the fur trade- gold panning- sheepherders- folk music-  storytelling . . .  and more