Education

Educating our local community on the history of Roseville, CA

Members of the leadership team from the Roseville Historical Society are regular speakers at schools, organizations and other local functions.

Educations Programs

We are offering THREE OPTIONS for FIELD TRIPS that share the history of Roseville with your students, bringing their local history to life. We hope one of these options will be useful to you and supplement your local history curriculum!



Choose from:

1. An in-person, physical field trip to our Museum
2. An in-person visit to your classroom by our trained and vaccinated docents
3. A virtual museum tour video and activity packet

Our field trip program is engaging and aligns with your 3rd graders' Common Core Standards for Social Studies as they learn the way Roseville has changed over time.

We will discuss:

  • Who were the first people in our community?

  • Why did people move to and settle in Roseville?

  • How has Roseville changed over time?

  • How did the growth of the city transform it?

 
 

Choose from the following options:

1. Traditional In-person Field Trips to the Carnegie Museum of Roseville

  • Book now for Thursday mornings.

  • Includes a brief orientation, followed by a outdoor walking tour of 19th century Roseville buildings, a Carnegie Museum tour led by trained, costumed staff that quickly rotates through several stations and archives using artifacts and other primary sources to teach the history of our community from the Gold Rush on and Virginia Reel folk dance and pioneer-era folk song singing (weather permitting).

  • $100 fee per class.

  • Three chaperones plus teacher requested per class.

  • One or two classes at a time are welcome.

  • 1 hr 45 min

*Parking is available across the street next to the Moose Lodge

OR

Email us education@rosevillehistorical.org
Call us (916) 773-3003
Tuesday - Friday 12p to 4p PST

2. Classroom Visits

  • Book now for Fridays.

  • Our engaging, trained docents want to don their costumes and hit the road and visit your classrooms to present a slide-show of pictures and a box of artifacts to teach about the early settlers - why they came and how they lived - and how Roseville's population exploded with the relocation of the Rail Road and Pacific Fruit Express!

  • Slides and artifacts discussion, rotating hands-on pioneer craft and games stations, and Virginia Reel folk dance instruction and pioneer-era folk song singing

  • $100 fee per classroom.

  • Parent volunteers requested to help with craft stations.

  • 1 hr 45 min

OR

Email us education@rosevillehistorical.org
Call us (916) 773-3003
Tuesday- Friday 12p to 4p PST

3. Free Video Tour of the Museum

  • Watch our popular Carnegie Museum Field Trip Video

  • We will take your students on a 30 minute virtual tour of the Carnegie Museum to tell the story of Roseville using artifacts and pictures of grade-relevant subjects including: Roseville settlers, the arrival of the railroad, the Pacific Fruit Express, and everyday life and schools of the pioneer era. The video concludes with pictures of Roseville landmarks Then and Now.

  • Includes an activity packet with word search and coloring pages to engage students while watching the video.

  • Free of charge. Registration required before download.