Just for Educators
More than 90,000 school-aged children visit the Witte Museum every year. About 25,000 of those participate in educational programs provided by the Witte. We want to assure that their time here is educational, as well as enjoyable. |
Support for the Witte Museum web site and educational outreach is generously provided by the Dickson Allen Foundation. |
There are currently no programs scheduled. Please check back for future additions.
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There are currently no programs scheduled. Please check back for future additions.
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BasinQuest Water Education Workshop
Saturday, April 3 | 9 am-4 pm | Fee: $20 | Grades: 6-8 | 6 CPE Hours
(includes 1 hour lunch break)
BasinQuest, San Antonio River Authority’s middle school water education program, is tailored to show students the relationship between science processes and the area in which they live – the San Antonio River Basin. Encouraging students to explore and learn on their own, the lessons are designed around engagement, exploration, elaboration, explanation, and evaluation activities. Participants receive classroom sets that include a teacher’s workshop and 30 student booklets. All lessons support the TEKS.
BasinQuest is presented in conjunction with the San Antonio River Authority. |
Project WILD
Saturday, April 24 | 9 am-4 pm | Fee: $10 (facility fee) | Grades K-12 | 6 CPE Hours
(includes 1 hour lunch break)
Talk a walk on the WILD side. Utilize your students’ natural interest in wildlife to teach math, science, language arts, and more! Activities are adaptable for all grade levels, integrated with core subject curricula and aligned with TEKS. The Project WILD Activity Guide contains over 80 lesson plans and is provided free of charge to each educator at the completion of the workshop.
Project WILD is presented in conjunction with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. |
Project WILD: Aquatic
Saturday, May 8 | 9 am-4 pm | Fee: $10 (facility fee) | Grades K-12 | 6 CPE Hours
(includes 1 hour lunch break)
Empower your students to think critically about conservation and the environment. This popular aquatic wildlife and environment educator workshop provides you with TEKS aligned hands-on activities, games and explorations to share with your students in the classroom. A teacher resource book is included.
Project WILD: Aquatic is presented in conjunction with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
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Outreach Gallery Theater
Bring history alive for your students through the Witte Museum’s Outreach Gallery Theater program, now available for school and classroom performances. These 20-25 minute dramatic plays are guaranteed to make history engaging and fun. Performed by professional actors using authentic costumes and props, Outreach Gallery Theater plays are packed with information while providing an entertaining learning experience.
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The following plays are available to schedule (click on the title for a description):
Encounter at Panther Cave
Playwright: Bryce Milligan
Setting: Panther Cave Rock Shelter in the Lower Pecos area of Texas
Character: An archaeologist and the Panther Shaman
Time: 20-25 minutes
A present-day archeologist spends the night in Panther Cave, a shelter used by prehistoric Indians of Texas. During the night, the archeologist encounters the spirit of the Panther Shaman, whose image is painted on the rock shelter wall.
As they try to understand each other’s worlds, the Panther Shaman dramatically recreated his first hunting experience. In doing so, he tells the story of a people who lived 4, 000 years ago− “at one with the land.”
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Noble Lofton, Buffalo Soldier
Playwright: Celeste Bedford Walker
Setting: Fort Concho, Texas in 1877
Character: Corporal Noble Lofton, an African American trooper in the Tenth Regiment of Cavalry, U.S. Army
Time: 20-25 minutes
Marching on stage in uniform, Noble Lofton welcomes the audience to Fort Concho. He gives them a briefing about the Tenth, a regiment of black soldiers stationed on the West Texas plains, whose duties include making the area safe for settlers and helping keep law and order. American Indians named these “colored” troopers, buffalo soldiers, because, as Noble says, “We put ‘em in mind of a buffalo, ‘cause of our hair and ‘cause we tough like buffalo.” Noble reminisces about his family, life under slavery, gaining his freedom, working as a cowboy in East Texas and his experiences as a soldier with the Tenth Cavalry.
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Outreach Gallery Theater Fees
One actor plays:
Noble Lofton, Buffalo Soldier
*One performance : $80
Two performances: $115
Three performances :$145
*These are per day fees. For more than three performances per day each
additional performance is $25.00 (e.g. 4 performances = $145 + $25=170)
Two actor plays:
Encounter at Panther Cave
*One performance : $115
Two performances: $165
Three performances: $215
*These are per day fees. If there are more than three performances per day each
additional show costs is $50.00 (e.g. 4 performances $215 + $50 = $265)
Mileage reimbursement is included in the honorarium rate for performances inside the San Antonio metropolitan area. For performances outside a 35 mile radius of the San Antonio metropolitan area mileage will be billed at the rate of 41¢ each mile.
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Special Deals for Teachers
FREE Admission
Teachers get in FREE when they bring their students to visit the Witte Museum. For pre-scheduled groups of 15 or more, one adult is admitted free with every 10 students. Additional adults pay the regular student group rate. Click here to learn more about group visits.
Free Tuesdays
Through the generosity of the Frost Bank Charitable Foundation, Bolner’s Fiesta Products, Mrs. Martha Landsman, Mr. and Mrs. John Feik, and Mr. and Mrs. Comer Alden, the Witte Museum is open FREE from 3-8 pm every Tuesday. It’s a great time to preview exhibits before bringing your class on a visit to the museum.
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