| Experienced guides offer informal lectures, slide-talks and hands-on programs to schools and community groups. Slide presentations last between 30-45 minutes. Speakers can bring touch-its for students to handle. This service is offered free of charge to school groups. A fee is charged for presentations to adult groups. Click here for detailed information about the topics below.
Presentation topics include:
- Architecture of the ancestral Pueblo People
- Arizona's Native Americans
- Arts of the Native People of the Southwest
- Beautiful Resistance
- Dine' - The Navajo
- Every Picture Tells a Story
- The Hohokam and the O'Odham
- Inde' - The Apache
- Life in a Cold Place: Arctic Art from the Albrecht Collection
- Native American Jewelry
For older students or specialized interest groups we suggest:
- Southwest Arts and Crafts
- Architecture of the Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) World
- Native American Jewelry
- RAIN: The Importance of Water to Native Americans
- Plants to Politics
- PhoenixIndianSchool
To schedule a presentation, call 602.251.0293 and a Heard volunteer will call back to confirm your presentation. Please leave the following information:
- Name and contact number
- Date of presentation
- School location and grade level
- Program preference
FREE TRAVELING PANEL EXHIBITS
These three-panel, freestanding exhibits - each with a hands-on materials display stand - are designed for use in libraries or schools and are free. Museum staff members set up and take down the exhibits. Month-long loans are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Exhibits include:
- RAIN
- Following the Sun and Moon: Hopi Katsina Dolls
- Mayan Life: Source and Symbol
- Phoenix Indian Boarding School
- We! Four Southern Tribes of Arizona
Panel exhibits are only available in the Phoenix metropolitan area for a one-month loan. Please call 602.251.0268 for availability and booking.
SUITCASE EXHIBITS
Two cases (one large and one small) are filled with artifacts, photographs and text that can be used to create a museum display in the classroom. Rental fee for the suitcases is $35 per kit for a two-week loan.
Suitcase exhibit topics include:
- Navajo
- Hopi
- Tohono O'odham
- Mohave
Each suitcase exhibit set includes:
- A teacher manual (includes other suggestions for hands-on activities)
- Historic photographs and contemporary photographs by Jerry Jacka
- Materials for one hands-on activity
- Additional books and audio tapes of songs
Please call 602.251.0268 for availability and booking of suitcase exhibits. |
