There are more avenues for
outreach than we usually have staff. Thus, it's important to choose the
ones that best fit your resources.
Some of the successful programs
I've overseen in this and other institutions are: outreach trunks (with
teaching objects, a/v, etc.) with or without accompanying presentations,
after-school mentorship programs (in natural history museums, these often
involve field-based activities), museum sleepovers for specific
schools/classes, school speakers-bureau of museum staff and volunteers.
One of the most popular, successful, but labor-intensive programs I've been
involved with was a statewide school outreach program, whereby we obtained state
funding to send outreach vans to school districts throughout the state to
present object-based programs. We targeted specific grades, as I recall,
and had a regular "curriculum" of visits . . .visiting each enrolled school
once per week for the 6-8 weeks. After the first two grant-funded years,
various school districts picked up the tab.
Hope this is
helpful.
Charles R. Preston,
Ph.D.
Senior Curator
Draper Museum of
Natural History
Buffalo Bill Historical
Center
720 Sheridan
Ave.
Cody, WY
82414
307.578.4078
To find out more about Science
and Nature programming at the BBHC, visit www.bbhc.org and explore Draper Museum of
Natural History
Please post responses to the list. We are also
interested in growing our school outreach
program.
Thanks!
Meegan Carr
The National Quilt
Museum
Paducah, KY
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I am researching innovative and successful ways
museums have partnered with local schools. Does anyone have any
suggestions or advice on what makes an outreach program meaningful for
both the school and the museum? Are there any "tricks of the trade"
which promote/facilitate learning museum content (in this case natural
and cultural history) in the
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