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Traveling Trunks

Traveling Trunks can build upon field trip experiences, virtual school programs or be a standalone lesson to complement classroom curriculum.

Price: $20/week for up to 2 weeks. Cash or check are accepted at the time of pickup. 
Pickup and drop-off locations: Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum in San Jose and/or Anderson Lake Visitor Center in Morgan Hill  

View Traveling Trunk request form

To reserve a Traveling Trunk, please complete our Traveling Trunk request form. If you have any questions, email [email protected].

 

A plastic pickaxe replica sits on tops of a bin containing materials for an off-site or self-guided version of the Almaden Quicksilver School Program.

Almaden Quicksilver Traveling Trunk

The lesson plans, materials and teaching guide in the trunk support 4th grade social studies standards. The trunk includes activities that allow students to explore Almaden Quicksilver's rich history through the people who lived and worked in the mining communities as well as understand how a local source of mercury was important to the success of the gold rush. The trunk can support the virtual school program or a teacher's own curriculum.

 

 

Acorns and other brown nuts and seeds spill off of the edge of a woven plant fiber mat.

Chitactac Community Village Traveling Trunk

The items within the trunk are designed to support the Chitactac school program and represent the local Indigenous People. The trunk can be checked out by educators whether or not the class attends the field trip program. The trunk contains various teaching materials for an off-site version of the Chitactac school program, including a lesson plan, a deer bone rattle, cooking basket, deer pelt, staves, and much more! As with the in-park program, these materials are intended to support learning standards for 3rd and 4th grade.

 

Coyote Creek Traveling Trunk: Coming soon!

Martial Cottle Traveling Trunk: Coming soon!