Engage your students with hands-on history while reducing their screen fatigue by setting them on a thematic scavenger hunt from the History Museum. The outdoor hunts focus on a specific era of our local history and support students in making connections between the past and the present.
Elementary school students can follow the scavenger hunts with their family, and middle and high school students can explore the hunts on their own. We also offer a smartphone-based virtual Cold War tour for high school students. Email our Museum Educator to learn more.
Teacher guides provide you with discussion questions for your class before and after the hunt, as well as an answer key.
Step back in time 100 years and discover what made the homestead farms of the Pajarito Plateau unique.
Find the history hiding just downtown and explore how our present is connected to a secret wartime past.
Plan a field trip to the Los Alamos History Museum. Our programs for classes are tailored to the grade level of your students and address core social studies learning standards.
Tours for younger students are an hour, and tours for older students are an hour and a half. There will be plenty of time for students to ask questions, and the tour guide will also have questions for the students to consider and discuss.
These trips are free and are available to classes in or out of Los Alamos County. Email our Museum Educator to learn more and to schedule a field trip.
Historical Fiction
by Ellen Klages
Viking, New York, 2006
It’s 1943, and eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is en route to New Mexico to live with her mathematician father. Soon she arrives at a town that, officially, doesn’t exist. It is called Los Alamos, and it is abuzz with activity, as scientists and mathematicians from all over America and Europe work on the biggest secret of all–“the gadget.” None of them–not J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project; not the mathematicians and scientists; and least of all, Dewey–know how much “the gadget” is about to change their lives.
Museum Hours:
Monday – Friday – 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday – 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Office Hours:
Monday – Friday – 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Museum Address:
1050 Bathtub Row
Los Alamos, NM 87544
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 43
Los Alamos, NM 87544
Los Alamos Historical Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, tax ID #85-0231249. Your donation is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
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