The Chippewa Valley Museum has many resources for teachers, preschool through university.

• You can arrange a class trip to the museum any weekday during the year. If you'd like a brochure, call (715) 834-7871. or you can see one here with Adobe Acrobat Reader (196k - 30sec download with 56k modem). It's a legal-size PDF; print on legal paper for best results. Follow this link for more info on field trips.
• You can check out any one of our 12 history kits.
• You can visit -- or even teach a class inside -- Sunnyview School, a rural one-room school on the museum grounds, open April-October.
• You can visit the Glenn Curtis Smoot Library and Archives for research, or even bring a small class group for a research project if you arrange it ahead of time. Admission to the library is free. The library is open 1-5, Monday-Friday and by arrangement. The library has substantial collections on the Ojibwe, Hmong, logging and lumbering, local industries and businesses, and the folk arts.
• You can encourage your university students to come here. Any UW student with an I.D. can gain admission for $1.50. Any UW student completing a class project is admitted free.
• A limited number of unpaid internships are available for university students. We often have projects in collections, education, programming, design, and marketing suitable for interns. Contact Melissa Holmen, Director of Public Programming for more information: mholmen@cvmuseum.com

Teachers' Guides available online. (More to come)

These are all PDF files. You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open and print them. Don't have it? Get it here

"My Town, Your Town" exhibit guide for teachers: Provides teachers with information and activities as they prepare students for a field trip to the Chippewa Valley Museum. The guide allows educators to better understand the history of the 1920s, as it pertains to the workings of a local community set in that era. The guide also helps educators explore the exhibit’s community-related themes of “Learning to be a Citizen,” “Building a City,” “Making a Living,” and “Making a Difference” with their students. The exhibit My Town, Your Town is designed for a primary audience of children between the ages of six to ten. Secondary audiences may include middle and high school-aged students and adults. Information may be adapted for age-appropriateness. The material in this packet is not intended to be all inclusive, but is presented as a framework for teachers to use in ways that will best meet the needs and interests of their students. For more in-depth information, please refer to the resource/reference list included at the end of the PDF file. 268K. Download: 45 seconds with 56K modem. Get it here.

"My Town, Your Town" accompanying photo guide: Captioned photographs of Eau Claire businesses and services, to provide visual context for materials in the exhibit guide. Large file, 912K. Download: 2.5 minutes with 56K modem. Get it here.