Hot on the heels of our announcements of two brand new school assemblies for 2011 (Stronger Than a Bully and The Invisible Wonder- Air!), Mobile Ed is pleased to announce our third new school assembly offering for the new school year!

An alliance between Piankeshaw Trails and Mobile Ed Productions will allow us to bring schools in the Midwest an excellent new hands on school assembly opportunity to teach students about the Native American Indian Cultures of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan and other parts of the Ohio Valley and what was once referred to as the Northwest Territory.

Piankeshaw Trails is a unique program developed by trained anthropologist Sheryl Hartman to bring the cultures and history of the Woodland tribes to students in an exciting and fascinating school assembly style program. With a museum quality array of artifacts and everyday items ranging from textiles and cooking tools to hunting and trapping implements, this great school assembly program skillfully combines elements of everyday life with a specific and artful telling of the story of interaction between Native Americans and the first Europeans. Highly interactive, with much audience participation, this amazing social studies school assembly meets state educational standards in the fourth and fifth grade curriculums of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky and is adaptable to meet the needs of other adjacent states. Though especially well suited to the needs of fourth and fifth grade students, the program is interesting, exciting and of great benefit to all grades.

Piankeshaw Trails is available both as a standard 45-minute presentation as well as an optional, longer 90-minute in-depth experience.

With decades of experience interpreting Native American culture for children, Ms. Hartman brings an amazing depth of knowledge combined with a lively and fun style of presentation sure to please all! Mobile Ed Productions is very happy to be able to make her program available to schools in the Midwest!

Here is some additional information about school assemblies for Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky and Illinois.

Geoff Beauchamp is the Regional Manager of Mobile Ed Productions where "Education Through Entertainment" has been the guiding principal since 1979. Mobile Ed Productions produces and markets quality educational school assembly programs in the fields of science, history, writing, astronomy, natural science, mathematics, character issues and a variety of other curriculum based areas. In addition, Mr. Beauchamp is a professional actor with 30 years of experience in film, television and on stage. He created and still performs occasionally in Mobile Ed's THE LIVING LINCOLN