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Five Oaks Museum is proud to be a valued local resource for educational materials based in community voices for K-12, college, and adult learners. View our Values-Based Learning Philosophy here.

We are currently rolling out learning offerings for our Replenish the Root Exhibition. In-class presentations are now available (below), and downloadable education materials are in the works! Please subscribe to our newsletter and select “Educator Updates” to be the first to know when these offerings are ready. In the meantime, check out our downloadable learning materials, virtual class visits, Museum at (Our Place) mini exhibitions, and adult presentations.

Free Educator Tours of Replenish the Root as well as museum resource-shares will occur throughout the school year and will be promoted through our educator mailing list.

Please contact learning@fiveoaksmuseum.org to get on our educator mailing list for updates.

Bring the community voices from our guest curated exhibitions into your classroom (or living room!) setting with our downloadable learning materials. All materials are offered on a sliding scale cost.

Registration for Steph’s presentations is currently closed! Come back to check future windows or sign up for the newsletter or educator update to get notified of future registration windows. You can find descriptions of Steph’s presentations below. Steph is pleased to offer both virtual presentations and in-person presentations in the Portland Metro area.

For school groups: We request a limit of 75 students per in-person presentation.

This IS Kalapuyan Land

In this presentation of the exhibition’s central ideas, curator and Kalapuyan descendant Steph Littlebird questions how Native history is told, shares Kalapuyan history from a contemporary Indigenous perspective, and features artworks by Indigenous creators who are contributing to cultural survivance today.

Within a school context, Steph’s presentation is an especially compelling addition to Oregon’s Tribal History / Shared History, deepening its relevance and supporting its understandings through very local, place-based content.

This presentation can be adapted to groups from elementary age to adult professionals or seniors, and it can be accompanied by optional pre-and-post learning materials.

Beyond Land Acknowledgments

With the rise in popularity of land acknowledgments, Indigenous artist Steph Littlebird asks us to reexamine this trend and go beyond the statement. What comes after we acknowledge the land and its Native stewards? How can individuals and institutions contribute to lasting changes and be true allies for Indigenous communities? Learn more about past and present Native identity, how to look critically at land acknowledgments, and move past words toward action.

This presentation is geared toward adult groups and institutions (including educational ones), but may also be a powerful topic for high school students.

My Powerful Hair

Steph illustrates Carole Lindstrom’s book My Powerful Hair, a story of heritage and survivance.  My Powerful Hair will soon be a required part of the Tribal History / Shared History learning plans. Steph’s reading of the book, discussion of her personal connections, and elaboration of her artistic choices is a powerful way to share this treasure with students of all ages.

View This IS Kalapuyan Land Learning Materials

Registration for this In-Class presentation is currently closed. We’ll be in touch as soon as we are able to reopen registration! Contact learning@fiveoaksmuseum.org to get educator updates and be notified as soon as we are able to get back into classrooms.

Five Oaks Museum is offering multidisciplinary in-class presentations for 3rd through 8th graders within 30 miles of Beaverton on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Students participate in a hands-on, interactive exploration of the Oregon white oak savannas that once flourished in the Tualatin and Willamette Valleys.  This hour-long presentation focuses on Kalapuyan stewardship of these savannas and oaks as anchor-species of their ecological communities.

Add another twenty minutes to half an hour if you’d like the presenter to stay and guide a clay leaf-impression art project with your students!

The presentation directly supports learning from Oregon’s Tribal History/Shared History curriculum as well as the new Social Studies standards. Take a look here to see the connections to your classroom goals.

We are delighted to be receiving grant funding from Tualatin Soil & Water Conservation District for these presentations! So, while we have unlimited numbers of presentations we can offer at the full price of $300, we also have half-price presentations to offer at $150, and a limited number of free presentations to offer to Title 1 schools or schools with other needs. You are best situated to determine your classrooms needs, and if your school requires a combination of those costs for multiple classes, we can work that out. Let me know on the scheduling form.

See Standards & Tribal History/Shared History Connections

Printing of Musuem at (Our Place) signs is now on hold. Check back later!

Museum at (Our Place) is an opportunity to bring an outdoor mini-exhibition to your school or neighborhood as a set of 10 colorful, waterproof yard signs.

Each M(OP) kit is available for $300, and individual signs can be purchased at the museum for $35 apiece.

The Community Gallery highlights exciting, ongoing work of regional students and educators in interpreting history, culture, and art. We welcome proposals for student-curated exhibitions and displays of student work which investigate the implications, ethics, and methods of how history, culture, and/or art is interpreted. Contact learning@fiveoaksmuseum.org to learn more.