Great tips, Dawn!!  Except I may have mentioned "food" a few more  
times :-)


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On Jul 24, 2009, at 8:26 AM, Scher Thomae, Dawn wrote:

> Since I have worked with high school interns for years and have done  
> presentations on programs for teens at museums, here are a couple of  
> pointers:
>
> *Ask them what they would like to do or learn as you develop the  
> program.
> *Make sure the experience is meaningful and worthwhile to them.
> *Ensure the museum staff is willing to work with teens and there is  
> someone there directly assigned to supervise and mentor them.
> *Make sure there is a social aspect to any program in addition to  
> the educational one.
> *Don’t schedule anything before 10am.
> *Make sure there is food involved in some way.
>
> Many teens are interested in career exploration and gaining relevant  
> skills at this point so visiting professionals in the field at  
> different sites is a possibility.
> I am sure others can suggest specific programs suitable to your  
> historical society.
>
> Dawn Scher Thomae
> Milwaukee Public Museum
>
>
> From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]  
> On Behalf Of Gina Gage
> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:17 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: teaching high schoolers
>
> Howdy all you wonderful museum people!
>
> This is your friendly museum volunteer and professional  
> archaeologist from Tempe, Arizona. I volunteer at a small  
> community's local historical society museum. The town where the  
> museum is located has asked me and a friend to put together a  
> workshop for a group of local high-achieving high schoolers on  
> archaeology and history. The workshop can be at our museum or at the  
> community facililty, or perhaps a combination of both.
>
> My dilemma is that I've never really dealt with high school students  
> on any level. I've done several presentations (hour long to 1/2 day  
> long) for younger kids and emotionally and behaviorally-challenged  
> teenagers, but never for high-achieving teenagers. So, I'm appealing  
> to all of you wonderful, knowledgeable folks for advice,  
> suggestions, input on creative, fun, challenging things to do with  
> these kids. We would like to plan a one day event, an ongoing event  
> such as a once a week-several weeks in a row event, or an all week  
> long (5 day) event. This is a small community with limited funds,  
> but I'm not sure yet of our budgetary or other limitations.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions, help, advice, and I apologize  
> for my lack of details.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gina
>
> Gina S. Gage
> Project Director and Historical Archaeologist
> Northland Research, Inc.
> 1865 E. 3rd Street
> Tempe, AZ 85281
>
> (480) 894-0020 office
> (602) 339-0933 field cell
> (480) 894-0957 fax
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>
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