Ms. Dotan,

You can contact Dr. John Thomas, Emeritus, who is a volunteer for the New
Mexico State University Museum.  His address is:

                        P. O. Box 30001, Dept. 3564
                        New Mexico State University
                        Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003
                        (505) 646-3739

He and three others who are on the musuem outreach committe have put
together traveling education kits entitled, "Museum-in-a-Bag Learning
Kits:  Indians of the American Southwest".  The kit has a
pre-service pack which includes an indepth evaluation - thus formalizing
the educational process.  The kits themselves have many archeaology
"hands-on" activities.

Also, we have a partnership of professionals who collaborate their efforts &
network across New Mexico.  One of the participants, a local archeaology
firm is conducting SIMSE (Systemic Intitiaties in Science and Math Education)
summer insitutes for educators across New Mexico. (SIMSE is sponsored by
the National Science Foundation through grant process).  This is the
archeaology firms' second summer conducting a summer institute for
educators,  as last summer was so successfull.  Lesson plans and
curriculum materials which are focused around archeology in the Southwest
have been developed which could be used for a base for educational kits.
If you are interested in this aspect, please e-mail me at the address
below.

In the meantime, I encourage you to contact Dr. Thomas to get a copy of
his "MUSEUM-IN-A-BAG".

Thank you & good luck,

Carrie Hernandez, Education Specialist

New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum
P. O. Box 1898
Las Cruces, New Mexico 88004
(505) 524-6081     Fax: (505) 524-6083
e-mail:  <[log in to unmask]>

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On Sat, 18 May 1996, Lisabeth Dotan wrote:

> To whom it may concern,
>
> I am writing from the Galilee in Israel.  Presently, I am completing a course
in
> Museum Studies at the Haifa University, and work for the Antiquities
Authority
> of Israel, teaching archeaology in public elementary schools.  With the many,
> many, museums that exist in Israel, there are yet no museum kits that have
been
> established for the school systems.
>
> I would like to gather information about museums around the world who have
> developed pre-visit educational museum kits. I am aware of kits existing in
L.A.
> from the Skirball Museum, (I am already in contect with them) and of the
Museo
> del Oro in Bogota, Colombia.  We are most interested in kits which are
designed
> for archaeology museums.
>
> If you know of such kits that exist and are able to send me a list of whom to
be
> in touch with, I would appreciate the assistance.
> Thank you for you time and effort.
>
> Sincerely,  I am,
>
> Beth Seldin Dotan
> Kibbutz Ayelet Hashahar
>
>