Chandler Museum offers interactive learning experiences for students in grades K-12. All experiences are aligned with Arizona academic content standards.
Treat your audience to a story from Chandler’s fascinating history. Chandler Museum offers insightful and engaging presentations to community organizations, libraries, schools, and other groups. Book your free presentation and we'll bring history to you.
- Broadacre City: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Chandler Project
- Death and Diamonds: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey from Kraków to Chandler
- Dr. Chandler and the Land Fraud that Built the Valley
- Eddie Basha in 1968 and Before
- Fight Night in Chandler: March 22, 1967
- Japanese Internment: When Some Americans Looked Like the Enemy
- Visual Stories: Dorothea Lange’s Depression Era Photography in Chandler, Arizona
Bring our exhibits to your school, business, organization, or event! Chandler Museum offers mobile exhibits covering a wide range of Chandler history. Request a mobile exhibit free of charge.
Tumbleweed Ranch
Field trips at Tumbleweed Ranch are currently on hold for ongoing site improvements as well as design development of expanded amenities of a new Ranch at Tumbleweed Park. Please keep us in mind for future field trips.
- Daily Life in Chandler, 1910s and 1920s, grades 2-5, Tumbleweed Ranch
A four-station experience featuring: butter-making and chores at the McCroskey house, shopkeeping at the historic grocery store, cotton and agriculture by the farm implements, and entertainment under the Red Shed theater. Watch the video below.
Use Local, Teach National Lesson Plan Series*
- Dorothea Lange and Dust Bowl migrants in Chandler
- Olive Goodykoontz and World War II: Perspectives on War
- The Prohibition Movement: Arizona Votes
- Architecture 101 with Frank Lloyd Wright
- Post-war Germany
- Zora Folley
- Japanese Americans at the Gila River Internment Camp
- Forms of Communication: Postcards from the San Marcos Hotel
- Cotton in Chandler, World War I
- Persuasive Writing
*Chandler Museum's Use Local, Teach National Lesson Plan Series contains lessons that feature local history primary sources to investigate national history. The lessons may focus on specific events, people, eras, or other historical topics. The goal of each lesson is to help students connect their community history to nationwide events.
Social Studies Lesson Plans
- Family History Journal
- Streets of Chandler
- Navajo Code Talkers
- Centennial Lessons Plans