Younger students
Frontier Highlights Tour
K-4th grade
Museum educators guide students on inquiry-discussion tours which are designed to expand critical thinking. Students are encouraged to contrast and compare life on Tennessee frontier to life today.
Museum Experience Room (MER)
K-4th grade
The current program is Home Is Where the Hearth Is . This hands-on program allows students to participate in an activity, such as weaving or spinning that would have been conducted next to the light and warmth of the frontier cabin fireplace.
Trade Demonstration: Frontier Print Shop
K-6th grade
Learn about George Roulstone, an 18th century printer who set up the first print shop in Tennessee . Using the museum's reproduction of an 18th century hand printing press, the guide takes students through the printing process and discusses how early settlers received news.
First Person Interpretation: Ann Cockrill
K-4th grade
This program is geared towards younger students, who can listen as Ann Cockrill tells about her life on the Tennessee frontier. As a member of the flotilla which made its way to Nashville in 1780, Ann Cockrill experienced a journey of excitement, adventure and hardship, which she will share with students.