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Garfield Park Indianapolis In garfield park indianapolis in are proudA to present Want to Plan a Field Trip to Garfield Park? This guide will help answer many of your questions. If you have additional questions, would like to give feedback, or talk with someone about arranging for assistance with your field trip, please send us a note describing your interests including your contact information and a good time to reach you and we will be in touch. [email protected] visit your friends at: This Teacher's Guide has been made possible through a Historic Preservation Education Grant from Indiana Humanities, Indiana Landmarks, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. A TEACHER’S GUIDE GUIDE INDEX This Teacher’s Guide is a resource for educators to assist students in learning about Indiana and local history while making useful connections about the history of Garfield Park. This first edition of the Teacher’s Guide is especially geared toward 4th grade students taking into consideration their focus on Indiana history. For planning and organizing your virtual or in-person field trip to Garfield Park, this packet includes the following components: PARK & PACKET INFORMATION 2 Themes and Sites 3 Academic Standards (4th Grade) 4 Driving & Park Details 5 Garfield Park Map To help make these historic connections practical and engaging, we are providing a range of student & teacher resources: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES 6 Historic Timeline (Connecting Garfield Park History with Indiana History) 7 Vocabulary Words List ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 8 Vocabulary Word Matching Activity 100% of this content is available in (Teacher Answers & Student Worksheet) easy to download and print versions at: GarfieldParkIndy.org/Teachers 9 Garfield Park History Quiz where you can easily print one element (Teacher Answers & Student Worksheet) from the Guide or all of them. You can also connect with Garfield Park 10 Garfield Park Crossword Puzzle Staff and Friends of Garfield Park for (Teacher Answers & Student Worksheet) assistance in planning your Field Trip and to apply for local transportation 11 Garfield Park Word Search Activity funds if this would make your field trip (Teacher Answers & Student Worksheet) possible. Garfield Park is your park and we want to make it as easy as 12 Garfield Park Coloring Book possible for you to come and bring your students! garfield park indianapolis in by our friends at GarfieldParkIndy.org THEMES AND SITES A WALK IN THE PARK A walk in the park has never been and therefore, continued preservation as instructive as it will be in Garfield becomes a key theme of this tour and Park. Surrounded by fresh air and the integral part of their own legacy building. most colorful of nature, students and chaperones alike will be playfully energized DIFFERENCE-MAKERS: to receive important ideas and information presented within this historic tour. Difference-makers come in many shapes and sizes and can be recognized in current A Teacher’s Guide to Walk, Talk, and times as well as past times. Throughout Teach at Garfield Park, links information the tour of historic Garfield Park, your in ways to integrate the typical elements students will be introduced to the concept of a park visit with the unique attributes of what it means to be a difference- of Garfield Park. This historic park maker as well to the many difference- is the home of a variety of historic makers connected to the historic sites monuments and facilities with colorful and events within the tour. We believe this stories of development and provenance. theme will have a lasting value once your The Friends of Garfield Park and Park students return to the classroom and that Staff will work with educators to ensure they will become aware of the ways that that field trips to Garfield Park, which they too can become a difference-maker. include this Historic Tour, incorporate historic elements in age-appropriate ways. ENHANCED LEARNING BY WALKING ABOUT: We invite continued feedback and sharing of resources as a means to make the Active learning is said to be one of field trips more productive and energizing the best techniques to inspire transfer for educators and students alike. of knowledge. Leveraging this concept as a key theme for your historic tour of Garfield Park enhances the prospects that students will learn to appreciate both the GARFIELD PARK TOUR THEMES historic nature of the sites on the tour as well as the concepts of proactive HISTORIC PRESERVATION & LEGACY historic preservation and the value of BUILDING: becoming a difference-maker themselves. Since 1998, the Friends of Garfield Park have been proactively ensuring the MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS: preservation and continuation of public benefits of Garfield Park through enhanced Monuments and memorials remind us funding, the application of effective advocacy, to honor leaders, heroes, and difference- and expanded stewardship. One function of makers from the past. They help us expand this Teacher’s Guide is educating our young our view of community, remind us of our people about our past and engaging them legacy, and show us how the state of Indiana in the continued preservation of public and the city of Indianapolis have played a resources such as Garfield Park. This is major role in the development of a nation. their park and the park for their children page 1 garfield park indianapolis in HISTORIC GARFIELD PARK SITES AUDIO TOUR INFORMATION HOTLINE 317-495-9349 (ALL PLACES ARE LOCATED ON THE PARK MAP) 3# 4# 7# 10# HGP Audio Tour HGP Audio Tour HGP Audio Tour HGP Audio Tour 1. The MacAllister Center 2. General Henry Ware 3. The Conservatory- 4. The Sunken Garden for the Performing Arts- Lawton Monument - A A Rain Forest Exhibit -Formal Gardens with Amphitheater bronze Stature Fountains 13# 14# 16# 17# 18# 20# HGP Audio Tour HGP Audio Tour HGP Audio Tour HGP Audio Tour HGP Audio Tour HGP Audio Tour 5. The Confederate 6. Pagoda Shelter 7. Trolley Streetcar, 8. Grove of Remem- Soldiers & Sailors Interurban Waiting brance Monument Station ADDITIONAL POINTS OF INTEREST 1. Burrello Family Center 2. Aquatic Center 3. Art Center (GPAC) page 2 page 1 garfield park indianapolis in by our friends at GarfieldParkIndy.org ACADEMIC STANDARDS FOURTH GRADE of important Indiana artists and writers HISTORY 4.1.6 to the state’s cultural landscape. - Explain how key individuals and events in- fluenced the early growth and development CIVICS AND GOVERNMENT of Indiana. - 4.2.6 - Define and provide examples of civic vir- HISTORY 4.1.9 tues in a democracy. - Give examples of Indiana’s increasing agricultural, industrial, political and business development in the nineteenth century. READING - VOCABULARY BUILDING - 4.RV.1 HISTORY 4.1.10 - Build and use accurately general ac- - Describe the participation of Indiana ademic and content specific words or citizens in World War I and World War II. phrases. HISTORY 4.1.11 - Identify and describe important events SPEAKING AND and movements that changed life in Indi- ana in the early twentieth century. LISTENING - 4.SL (4.SL.1-4.SL.3) HISTORY 4.1.12 - Students listen actively and communi- - Describe the transformation of Indiana cate effectively for a variety of purposes, through immigration and through develop- including for learning, enjoyment, persua- ments in agriculture, industry and trans- sion, and exchange of information and portation. ideas. Students develop an understanding of and respect for diversity in language HISTORY 4.1.15 use, patterns and dialects. - Create and interpret timelines that show relationships among people, events, HEALTH & WELLNESS - and movements in the history of Indiana 4.1.3 - Summarize ways in which a safe and HISTORY 4.1.18 healthy community environment can pro- - Research and describe the contributions mote health. garfield park indianapolis in DRIVING PARK DETAILS PARK LOCATION 2505 Conservatory Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46203 5 PARK ENTRANCES: (North) Enter from the north, off Raymond Street by coming in near the fire station onto at Pagoda Dr. (West) Enter or E. Pleasant Run Parkway. from the west using E. Pleasant Run Parkway and the Railroad (East) Enter from the east near the underpass. Conservatory from the 2600 block of Shelby. (South) Enter from the south off Southern Avenue, coming in near the MacAllister Center. PICNIC SHELTERS: Plan to have your picnic lunch at the park. There are several shelter areas that can be reserved for your group. Just make BUS PARKING: sure you let us know you need There is plenty of room for these accommodations when you bus parking. Park staff can make your field trip reservations help you with the logistics of your visit. CONTACT PARK STAFF To make plans for a Field Trip to Garfield Park. Be sure and mention if you plan to use this Historic Tour and Teacher’s Guide so they can arrange for a volunteer docent from the Friends of Garfield Park. Garfield Park Arts Center (GPAC) staff Garfield Park Conservatory staff can can arrange for your students to enjoy the arrange for your students to combine a visit to historic tour and then participate in an age the Rain Forest Display at the Conservatory. To appropriate, history related art project at make arrangements contact Conservatory staff GPAC as well. Contact GPAC staff at: at: (317)327-7183 (317)327-7135 [email protected] GPACArts.org GarfieldGardensConservatory.org garfield park indianapolis in by our friends at GarfieldParkIndy.org HISTORICAL TIMELINE HISTORIC HAPPENINGS WITH CONNECTIONS TO LOCAL, STATE, GARFIELD PARK WORLD HISTORY Indiana was admitted as 1816 the 19th state of the union INDIANA Indianapolis becomes the state capital Indiana became the site of Camp Morton, a Civil War, 1825 Indianalpolis Prisoner of War Camp, named after then Governor 1861-1865 of Indiana, Oliver P. Morton. American Civil War 1861 Morton was Governor of Indiana from 1861-1867 1862 The land that would later become Garfield Park was originally called Bradley Woods.
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