The Museum's education staff works individually with university professors to tailor programs and activities to the requirements of a specific class. Other faculty assign work sheets and class projects that require museum visitation by their students. For Education students, programs explore the value of museums as a classroom resource both in terms of potential field trip sites and resources for borrowing specimens and artifacts for use in the classroom. Biology students are given an opportunity to work with actual specimens from the zoological collections in a variety of classes such as nature study. Space and materials are provided for higher level classes to meet at the museum to utilize full collections or museum equipment.
Art classes meet at the museum to draw specimens and artifacts on exhibit.
Recreation Students learn and experience the traditional roots of many contemporary crafts that are taught in recreation programs. They also discover exhibit building techniques that will benefit those that might acquire jobs in Nature Centers. For History students first person interpretation helps to bring a particular period of history alive. Programs can also be geared toward demonstrating how they can use living history to make history more interesting for their own students. For Anthropology students, demonstrations on such topics as flintknapping, primitive arrow making, prehistoric tools, etc., offer them an opportunity to experience technologies that many will be teaching about or digging for in future archaeological excavations.