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Bring history alive without leaving the classroom with a Mission San Luis outreach program. Costumed museum educators bring interactive activities to highlight important themes and issues concerning Florida and Mission San Luis history. All programs correlate with Sunshine State Standards and are designed to enhance skills assessed by the FCAT. Extensión San Luis programs are ideal for 3rd - 5th grade classes, but can be adapted to accommodate a wide range of ages and can be presented in English or Spanish. We also offer programs for adults that can be constructed based upon the needs of the group, and Assembly programs for groups up to 150 adults or students.
Each 50 minute program features:
- Hands-on and interactive learning
- Introductory video to provide historical context
- Provides pre- and post-visit lesson plans and activities
- Personalized activities for individual classroom needs
1) Herencia de La Florida
This unique program, designed for Hispanic students, addresses the influence of Spanish heritage on Florida’s history in order to foster greater awareness of Hispanic cultural contributions. Herencia de La Florida focuses on the lasting impact of the 17th-century Spanish settlers on the Apalachees and the Americas through specialized lessons and group activities. Contemporary Hispanic influences on art, music, and literature are also explored.
2) From There to Here: Adventures of a Merchant Mariner
A museum educator transforms your classroom into a 17th-century marketplace to share and discuss trade goods, maps, and navigational tools that inspired colonization and created cultural diversity in the Americas. Well-trained in history, science, mathematics, economics, and social science, merchant mariners provide an ideal subject for an interdisciplinary classroom voyage.
3) A Child’s Life in 17th Century Florida
For a 17th-century child, life included work as well as play. While enjoying the pastimes of period toys and games, students explore gender roles and expectations through clothing, discussion of chores, apprenticeships, and training for adulthood.
4) Native Adventures: Apalachee Customs and Culture
Explore the lifestyle and customs of the native people who lived at Mission San Luis as learned through archaeological excavations. Adaptations to the natural environment, as well as to the influence of the Spanish, are brought to life through foodways, technology, artifacts, and activities such as sewing, playing the Apalachee ball game, and corn grinding.
Grade 3:
Social Studies:
SS.3.E.1.1: Give examples of how scarcity results in trade
SS.3.E.1.3: Recognize that buyers and sellers interact to exchange goods and services through the use of trade or money.
SS.3.G.4.2: Identify the cultures that have settled the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
Reading/Language Arts LA.3.1.6.1: The student will use new vocabulary that is introduced and taught directly.
Grade 4:
Social Studies
SS.4.A.3.1: Identify explorers who came to Florida and the motivations for their expeditions.
SS.4.A.3.2: Describe causes and effects of European colonization on the Native American tribes of Florida.
SS.4.A.3.4: Explain the purpose of and daily life on missions (San Luis de Talimali in present-day Tallahassee).
SS.4.A.3.6: Identify the effects of Spanish rule in Florida.
SS.4.A.3.7: Identify nations (Spain, France, England) that controlled Florida before it became a United States territory.
Reading/Language Arts
LA.4.1.6.1: The student will use new vocabulary that is introduced and taught directly.
LA.4.5.2.3: The student will listen attentively to speakers and takes notes as needed to ensure accuracy of information.
LA.4.5.2.4: The student will ask questions of speaker, using appropriate tone and eye contact.
Science
SC.4.L.17.4: Recognize ways plants and animals, including humans, can impact the environment.
Grade 5:
Social Studies
SS.5.A.3.1: Describe technological developments that shaped European exploration.
SS.5.A.3.2: Investigate (nationality, sponsoring country, motives, dates and routes of travel, accomplishments) the European explorers.
SS.5.A.3.3: Describe interactions among Native Americans, Africans, English, French, Dutch, and Spanish for control of North America.
SS.5.A.4.1: Identify the economic, political and socio-cultural motivation for colonial settlement.
Reading/Language Arts
LA.5.1.6.1: The student will use new vocabulary that is introduced and taught directly.
Sunshine State Standards
Grades 3-5: Foreign Languages FL.D.2.2: The student recognizes that cultures have different patterns of interaction and applies this knowledge to his or her own culture.The Arts: Visual Arts
VA.C.1.2: The student understands the visual arts in relation to history and culture.
“Thank you for the wonderful program you recently presented to our fifth graders. Your handouts prior and after the program were superb! The high quality of the information and layout would make a good resource book. We appreciate the opportunity to involve our students in an experience they can’t stop talking about!”
Pineview Elementary Teachers
Tallahassee, Florida