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