Educators choose to visit museums and other special places in their community for many reasons: to give students opportunities that they may not otherwise have, to enrich learning experiences and to have fun! Most importantly, educators want to bring to life the concepts taught in the classroom. Because a visit to view an exhibition is a valuable commitment of time and resources, the content of the exhibitions and programs must supplement classroom curriculum.

The California Exhibition Resources Alliance (CERA) provides educational materials to accompany most every exhibition it tours. These materials are designed to give educators information to guide them in preparing students to view the CERA exhibition. The grade level of the educational materials provided depends on the exhibition's content and its appropriateness to the students' age – some exhibitions have education materials for elementary students, some for high school students, and some for both.

For a sample of a CERA exhibition educational materials for the "Byways to Highways: Rondal Partridge Photographs California" please click the links below:

"Byways to Highways" 4th Grade Education Materials

"Byways to Highways" 11th Grade Education Materials

To access the high school education materials, developed by the Oakland Museum of California, for the "What's Going On? - California and the Vietnam Era" please visit:

http://www.museumca.org/wgolessons/

Education material samples for CERA's retired exhibition "Awakening from the California Dream: An Environmental History:"

"Awakening from the California Dream" Elementary Education Materials

"Awakening from the California Dream" High School Education Materials