Traveling Trunks- Teachers in New Albany and Union County Schools have free access to these trunks. Brand new Traveling Trunks loaded with educational resources will soon leave the Union County Heritage Museum on their way to classrooms.
Trunks can be checked out at the Museum, or a museum staffer can come to the classroom and provide programs using the trunks.
The trunks, which are organized around specific topics in Union County and Mississippi history, contain such materials as maps, graphics, reproduction artifacts, activities, and lesson plans. They are available on loan, free of charge to all teachers in New Albany and Union County Schools
The trunks are designed specifically to aid fourth- and ninth-grade Mississippi Studies teachers, following the state social studies curriculum, they are appropriate for students in grades three through twelve. Each trunk incorporates a variety of subjects, such as art, science, language arts, and math, in the lesson plans and activities. Trunks are now available on Chickasaw and other Native American tribes and their archaeology of local sites, Palentology and the Fossils, History of Union County, and Pioneers and the settlement of North Mississippi. | 
