Teacher Guides for Educational Programs

Classroom materials for all of the Educational Programs that we offer are available on this Web site in PDF format. The materials include background information, vocabulary lists and classroom activities that will help teachers prepare their students for museum programs, and support and expand lessons learned during their museum experience once students return to the classroom. Teacher Guide PDF's are linked from the Educational Programs page, at the end of each program description.

One Hundred Summers: The Kiowa Calendar of Silver Horn
View the museum’s entire collection of calendar drawings by Kiowa artist Silver Horn and learn how the artist’s images represent key events in the history of the Kiowa people from 1828 to 1928.

Discovery Guides for Students

Are you looking for an activity to help guide your students through the museum’s three main exhibit galleries? Our Discovery Guides include a series of questions that encourage students to think about what they are seeing in each gallery. Print out one for each student so they can follow along with you and the guide. Each PDF begins with Teacher Instructions before moving on to the Students' Sections.

Ancient Life Gallery	Natural Wonders Gallery	People of Oklahoma Gallery
Grades K through 2	Grades K through 2	Grades K through 2
Grades 3 through 5	Grades 3 through 5	Grades 3 through 5
Grades 6 through 8	Grades 6 through 8	Grades 6 through 8
	Grades 9 through 12

 

Discovery Guide for Pre-schoolers                              Discovery Guide for Families

 

Please have students write in pencil and use either a folder or a friend's back as a writing surface. Please instruct students not to use exhibit labels, signs or walls as a writing surface. Thank you.

Professional Development Workshops

COMING UP: Oklahomans for Excellence in Science Education (OESE), in conjunction with the University of Oklahoma Biological Station (OUBS) and the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (SNOMNH), is organizing a professional development workshop on Teaching Evolution in the 21st Century for Oklahoma high school science teachers and undergraduate and graduate students in science education. The workshop will be held on Saturday September 5, 2009 from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History in Norman, OK. Click here for more details.


The education staff provides professional development opportunities for teachers on a variety of natural, earth and social science topics. Please call the education department at (405) 325-4712 to discuss designing a teacher workshop for your group.