The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art at the Fenster/Sanditen Cultural Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a lesser-known gem of an art museum in a town with a surprising wealth of art museums. The Sherwin Miller specializes in Jewish art, with a wide range of exhibits. Art works in multiple… Continue reading
Do you observe Columbus Day on October 12 at your school? Some schools, cities, and even states have replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. We’d say that you still need to study Columbus in your American history lessons, even if you don’t observe Columbus Day. Whether you consider Christopher… Continue reading
The Nelson Atkins Museum is a beautiful art museum in Kansas City, Missouri. We had the opportunity to visit their Lunar New Year Celebration for the Year of the Dragon. There was plenty of music and dancing, tasty food, and art exhibits. We enjoyed the sculpture. This lion was a… Continue reading
Kansas City’s National Toy and Miniature Museum has a collection of 51,000 toys. There’s a wide range, from delicate miniatures that certainly were never intended to play with, to well-worn toys visitors remember from their own childhoods. One of the most impressive items is a dollhouse almost big enough to… Continue reading
The Tulsa Massacre, sometimes known as the Tulsa Race Riots, was a shocking event in 1921. Perhaps equally shocking is the fact that this event is rarely covered in classrooms. It’s not easy to look back at troubling events, but they are part of our history and should not be… Continue reading
Until we reach a point of including Black history in all our American history lessons, we need to make a special effort in February to honor Black Americans in our history. Here are some lesson plans to get you started: Wilma Rudolph Madame C. J. Walker Martin Luther King Jr.… Continue reading
We always enjoy a good aquarium, and we have written before about our aquarium visits — but you might not think to look for an aquarium in Oklahoma. Oklahoma is in the middle of the nation, far from any ocean. The Oklahoma Aquarium in Jenks, Oklahoma, is worth a visit.… Continue reading
We visited the Philbrook Art Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This gorgeous museum used to be a private home. Waite and Genevieve Phillips lived here with their children in the 1920s. Philips was an oilman. He built his oil company up and sold it for $25 million in 1925. Waite and… Continue reading
Peter Pan was written by James M. Barrie a century ago as a play and then as a novel. You can find the text online at The Literature Network, but there’s also a beautiful book illustrated by Michael Foreman, or a Little Golden Book version based on the Walt Disney… Continue reading
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is a classic of children’s literature. In it, a young girl named Dorothy is carried by a cyclone to a magical land called Oz. Her house lands on and kills the Wicked Witch, and a couple of good witches help her… Continue reading
