MTCC to Go!
The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center can bring the museum right to your school! MTCC to Go! offers classroom presentations, or museum outreach programs, to the Arkansas's Pre Kindergarten through twelfth grade students. A museum educator will visit your classroom and facilitate a one-hour, hands-on workshop, available on Monday through Friday, between 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. For information on scheduling, see How to Schedule.
Our MTCC to Go! programs also include target goals and objectives, curriculum connections, and supplemental activities and reading. Click on the magnifying glass to download Program Information Sheets.
| Programs | Grade Level | |
|---|---|---|
| Zin! Pluck! Bang! | Grades PK - 4 | |
| Life Masks | Grades PK - 4 | |
| Freedom Summer | Grades PK - 2 | |
| Gee, What's Ge | Grades 2 - 12 | |
| Speaking Up, Speaking Out | Grades 4 - 12 | |
| Entreprecation | Grades 4 - 12 | |
| Mosaic Templars of America | Grades 4 - 12 | |
| William Grant Still | Grades 4 - 12 |
Zin! Pluck! Bang!
Grades PK - 4
Program length: 40 minutes
Limit: 30 per class
This hands-on program focuses on instrument identification and rhythm by examining instruments used by Arkansas-reared, nationally-acclaimed, classical composer William Grant Still. Students will see, hear, and touch different instruments within a symphonic orchestra and get a chance to be musicians! Program includes a live violin demonstration among other instruments.
Curriculum Connections: H.6.K.3, H.6.2.3, H.6.3.2, M.1.2, M.5.3 and M.4.4
Life Masks
Grades PK - 4
Program length: 45 - 60 minutes
Limit: 30 per class
Nationally recognized artist Isaac Scott Hathaway created life and death masks of notable black Americans, including several black Arkansans. After examining the masks of Hathaway as well as other examples of life masks from other cultures and time periods, students will create their own cardboard "life masks."
Curriculum Connections: H.6.K.3, H.6.2.3, H.6.3.2, A.1.1, A.2.2 and A.3.7
Freedom Summer
Grades PK - 2
Program length: 40 minutes
Limit: 30 per class
This hands-on program focuses on friendship and civil rights activism in Arkansas through literature and images related to Arkansas's desegregation of public services. This program concludes with an art project: friendship bracelets.
Curriculum Connections: H.6.1.7 and H.6.2.8
Gee, What's Ge?: Introducing Artist Isaac Scott Hathaway
Grades 2 - 12
Program length: 1 hour
Limit: 30 students per class
This hands-on art-based program introduces students to the nationally recognized art of African American sculptor, ceramicist, and illustrator Isaac Scott Hathaway, who created sculptures of notable African Americans from Arkansas.
Curriculum Connections: H.6.2.3, W.7.AH.7-8.1, W.7.AH.9-12.2, A.1.1, A.1.2, A.1.5, A.2.1, and A.2.16
Speaking Up, Speaking Out
Grades 4 - 12
Program length: 45 minutes
Limit: 30 students per class
Buttons have been used for decades to express opinions and were especially popular during Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In this program, students will use their artistic ability to design and create their own wearable buttons to speak up and speak out.
Curriculum Connections: C.4.3.4, C.5.5.15, C.6.14, WWP.9.AH.7-8.4 and WWP.9.AH.7-8.4
"Entreprecation"
Grades 4 - 12
Program length: 45 minutes
Limit: 50 students per class
This program gives students an understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of Arkansas's African American community in the early twentieth century through an interactive PowerPoint presentation.
Curriculum Connections: H.6.4.12, E.8.3.5, and E.8.4.5
Mosaic Templars of America
Grades 5 - 12
Program length: 45 minutes
Limit: 50 students per class
Through a PowerPoint presentation, students will hear the story of the Mosaic Templars of America, a highly successful and nationally acclaimed Arkansas-based black fraternal organization and business.
Curriculum Connections: E.8.4.5, W.7.AH.7-8.1, and W.7.AH.9-12.2
William Grant Still
Grades 5 - 12
Program length: 45 minutes
Limit: 50 students per class
This program introduces students to the life and work of African American composer William Grant Still. Students will hear samples of strings instruments and works from Still. Students will also have a chance to be composers!
Curriculum Connections: M.4.3, M.4.4, M.5.9, W.7.AH.7-8.1, W.7.AH.9-12.2, WWP.9.AH.7-8.12
How to Schedule MTCC-to-Go!
Choose from our MTCC-to-Go! programs for your school or youth group. Have questions about our programs? Contact us! Our education staff can assist you with your plans. Schedule a program by phone, by email or by mail/fax.
Call us at 501-683-3592 to schedule your program.
Email us at info@mosaictemplarscenter.com to schedule your program.
Fax your reservation form to 501-324-9154.
NOTE: Be sure your date and time have been confirmed! A confirmation letter will be sent out to confirm the date and time.