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Virtual Student Museum Tour is Online

 We can’t make ice cream virtually, but we can welcome 3rd grade students to the ECCHS museum via a virtual tour!

Virtual Tour is a streamed video with 7 sections divided by a ‘title screen’ so you can start and stop to discuss, show on different days, etc to match your instructional planning. 

  • Getting to California: Making the trip to California on a covered wagon.  (11 mins)
  • Welcome to the Byer-Nail House: Description/Overview of life on a pioneer farm in the late 1800’s, getting to school  (3 mins)
  • Parlor 1: Settling of East Contra Costa area and importance of the railroad  (4 mins)
  • Homer’s Shed: History of farming in our area from dry farming to irrigated crops  (8 mins)
  • Parlor 2: Life in 1880’s – Evenings in the Parlor  (4 mins)
  • Kitchen: Life in 1880’s – The Kitchen  (5 mins)
  • Upstairs: Life in 1880’s – The Bedroom and Children’s Games  (4 mins)
Students in front of one-room schoolhouse with School Marm
Students standing, reading from books