Educational Outreach

Traveling Trunk

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Traveling Trunks and Traveling Map

 

Traveling Trunks

Our “Nation at War” Traveling Trunks, shipped to your school for 2-3 weeks, each contain a number of independent learning stations, including Life of a Soldier, Women of the War, Civil War Medical Care, and Lincoln at Gettysburg. Trunk materials and curriculum is recommended for students in Grades 4 through 10.

Multiple requests exceeding our number of trunks for the same time frame will be drawn from a random lottery. There are six circulating trunks and just one map so time frames are limited. Thanks to our partner, the Gettysburg Foundation, there is no fee for the trunks nor for the shipping costs to and from your school.The trunk will arrive at your school on a Monday and must be shipped back to the park no later than the return date (typically a Friday), as other schools will be waiting for the trunk!

How do you reserve one of our trunks? That depends on where you live.

Schools Across the Region and the Country:

Trunks are available for two-week time frames (or longer) throughout the school year. If interested in scheduling a trunk for your school, please email us and, if a Trunk is available, a confirmation will be mailed to you as soon as possible.

Schools/Organizations Within Driving Distance of Gettysburg:

You can reserve and pick up one of our Traveling Trunks here at the park.

 

Traveling Map

The “Gettysburg Battlefield in a Box” traveling map can be shipped to your school, with an accompanying video link and teacher’s guide for everything you need to teach the campaign and battle of Gettysburg interactively. The Traveling Map, which consists of ropes to represent the road network in and around Gettysburg and flower pots to represent the many hills, can be used right in the middle of your classroom floor, or from a common room for the whole grade or school. Map materials and curriculum is recommended for students in grades 4 through 12 (and beyond).

Multiple requests for the same time frame will be drawn from a random lottery. Thanks to our partner, the Gettysburg Foundation, there is no fee for the map nor for the shipping costs to and from your school.The map kit will arrive at your school on a Monday and must be shipped back to the park no later than the return date (typically a Friday), as other schools will be waiting for it!

 

Traveling Trunk & Map Time Frames for 2024-2025 School Year:

NOTE: We will begin accepting reservation requests for our Traveling Trunks and Traveling Map for the 2024-2025 school year in September 2024.

Time Frames for the Traveling Trunk for the 2024-2025 School Year are as follows:

September 30--October 18
October 7--October 25
October 15--November 1
October 28--November 15
November 4--November 22
November 12--December 6
December 2--December 20
January 6--January 24
January 13--January 31
January 20--February 7
February 5--February 21
February 10--February 28
February 18--March 7
March 3--March 14
March 10--March 21
March 17--March 28
March 24--April 11
April 7--April 25
April 14--May 2
April 28--May 9
May 5--May 16
May 12--May 23
May 19--May 30
May 27--June 13

Time Frames for the Traveling Map for the 2024-2025 School Year are as follows:

October 7--October 25
November 4--November 22
January 6--January 24
February 5--February 21
March 3--March 14
March 24--April 11
April 28--May 9
May 12--May 23

 

How To Reserve

To Begin Your Reservation Request for our Traveling Trunks and Map, please our education team at [e-mail] and be sure to include the following information:

Subject Line: Loan Materials or Traveling Trunk (or Map):

[ ] Name of School/Organization/Family
[ ] Street Address
[ ] City, State, Zip
[ ] School/Contact Phone #
[ ] Teacher/Leader Contact
[ ] Teacher/Leader Email
[ ] Grade(s)
[ ] Number of Students/Participants
[ ] Number of Classes, if applicable
[ ] Loan Item Requested (Trunk, Map, or both)
[ ] Top Three Preferred Time Frames for Trunk or Map
[ ] Additional Questions/Comments

Note: All Programs and Procedures are subject to change.

 

Traveling Trunk Curriculum Guide

Teacher's guide for the Traveling Trunk.

 

Traveling Trunk

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