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It’s My Right!: Postal Service, Power, and the First Amendment

It’s My Right! (Virtual)

Designed for 9th-12th grade students.
Accommodates up to 30 students.
Duration: 50 minutes.

Available by advance reservation between 9:30 am and 12:00 pm ET, Tuesdays through Fridays.

Throughout U.S. history, the mail and our First Amendment rights have crucially shaped and impacted each other. In the It’s My Right! Postal Service, Power, and the First Amendment virtual field trip, your students will explore connections between postal history and civics. After a deep dive into the First Amendment through museum objects, students will be challenged to consider modern implications of the relationship between the Mail and the First Amendment through a museum provided asynchronous social justice art activity.

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Listen, Look, and Do: Communication! (Virtual)

Designed for Pre-K –Kindergarten students
Accommodates up to 30 students
Duration: 45 minutes

Available by advance reservation between 9:30 am and 12:00 pm ET, Tuesdays through Fridays.

Students will engage in a virtual story time (listen), then they will investigate three objects from the museum’s collection that teach us more about how the postal service has helped us stay connected to our loved ones (look). Finally, through guided collaboration, students will write a letter they can take home, about what they learned (do).

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First Class Problem Solvers (Virtual)

Designed for 1st – 3rd grade students
Accommodates up to 25 students
Duration: 45 minutes

Available by advance reservation between 9:30 am and 12:00 pm ET, Tuesdays through Fridays.

This STEM based virtual program focuses on improving students' problem solving skills. Students will learn about the processes we all use when problem solving and investigate problem solving in action through guided object exploration. In a culminating asynchronous activity, students will design and build a container that can protect a single potato chip as it travels through the mail.

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Big Draw (Virtual)

Designed for 3rd – 5th grade students
Accommodates up to 30 students
Duration: 45 minutes

Available by advance reservation between 9:30 am and 12:00 pm ET, Tuesdays through Fridays.

After an introduction on the process of stamp design submission and approval, students will learn about the basics of graphic design that every stamp artist must address in their work. At the end of the session, students will asynchronously have the option to combine all their acquired knowledge to sketch their very own stamp design that can be submitted for production!

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Collection InSPECTion (Virtual)

Designed for 6th – 8th grade students
Accommodates up to 30 students
Duration: 50 minutes

Available by advance reservation between 9:30 am and 12:00 pm ET, Tuesdays through Fridays.

Through an exploration into six central themes of history, students will inspect different objects from the National Postal Museum’s collection in order to practice using primary source analysis in the creation of evidence-based arguments. This virtual fieldtrip combines historical thinking skills with an introduction to how the Postal Service impacts us in seen and unseen ways.

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