Our latest educational program is a time travel
trunk that brings the Museum right into your classroom or
educational program. Each trunk focuses on a different theme of
timekeeping and is intended for use with groups of all age ranges
from preschool to high school. Your group or class will embark on an
exploration of time and timekeeping using the activities and
artifacts in the trunk. Each trunk includes user guidelines, theme
related activities and lessons that relate to Pennsylvania State
Standards of Education (if in PA), props, artifacts, and other
related materials.
Availability and Cost: Time Travel
Trunks can be checked out for 2 weeks at a time, with reservations
needed at least 1 week in advance. Trunks can either be picked up at
the Museum during regular hours, or shipped to you (your
organization will be charged the shipping charges). For an
additional fee a National Watch and Clock Museum educator will visit
for one full day to facilitate activities.
Fee Rental period
Time Travel
Trunk $50* 2 weeks
Time Travel Trunk + Museum Educator
$150*+ 2 weeks (trunk)
1 school day (educator)
* Shipping costs not included
+ If requesting museum educator outside of 30 mile radius from
museum additional travel fees will apply.
Discover the Treasures of Time 
This trunk is an introductory kit to learning about the concepts of time, its role in our world, and how methods of timekeeping have changed. Choose from activities including making a recyclable water clock, learning the science behind the pendulum, to discovering how fruit can keep time.
Cultural
Calendars: Chinese New Year Celebration
This trunk uses the
Chinese New Year celebration to help students understand the unique
timekeeping aspect of cultural calendar systems by comparing the
Chinese New Year with Western celebrations of the New Year holiday.
Teachers can help students create a mini-Chinese New Year
celebration in their classroom.
Story-Time
Outreach Program
The teacher/ program director chooses from one
of our story programs and can be conducted by museum education
staff/volunteers or by a member of your group. Each program runs
approximately 30-45 minutes and includes a craft for the
students/participants to make and keep. These programs are
recommended for preschool through third grade.
Fee # of Participants per
session
Story Time Program
$4.00 per student* 30 students
Story Time 2nd program same
school $3.50 per student* 30 students
location/same day
(or more than 2 performances)
*Travel fees will apply
Cuckoo for Clocks
(For Preschool-3) The Noisy
Clock Shop by Jean Horton Berg
What is time? Take a peak inside a clockmaker’s workshop and discover
all the different sounds that clocks make and what the clockmaker tries
to do to escape the noise of his shop.
The activity features a cuckoo clock ornament with a cuckoo bird
peeking out. Add color to the dial and the bird, then assemble to
complete your ornament!
The Timekeeper Clock
(For K-3) The Timekeeper by
Anna Riphahn
What if there was no time? How would fairy tales begin without the
saying, “Once upon a time”? Learn about a mysterious man who brought
time to a land where the sun and moon shone together all day long.
The Timekeeper Clock is a flat paper shelf clock that works well as a
time-telling practice clock. As the clock is assembled, children will
learn more about the parts that comprise a shelf clock, including the
moveable, decorative clock hands.
A Tale of Time (For K-3) The Great Kettles by
Dean Morrissey
Would you like to board a time traveling machine? Join a little boy
on his time traveling adventures as he encounters characters like Father
Time, the Sandman, and the Man in the Moon.
During this craft, participants will create a foam pocket watch with
moveable hands, like the pocket watches featured in the story. The
pocket watch makes a great time-telling practice watch.
Hickory Dickory Dock (For Preschool-2) The Completed
Hickory Dickory Dock by Jim Aylesworth
One of everyone’s favorite nursery rhymes is Hickory Dickory Dock,
but what happens after the mouse runs down the clock? Follow the mouse
on his adventures throughout the rest of his day.
Children will make their own mouse shaped bookmark to use in their
own books or give as a gift.
