Re: [MUSEUM-L] teaching high schoolers
Hey there,

This is more an arts in the community project, than archeology, but our group of teens had fun and were game for anything. It doesn’t take much to spur their imaginations and sense of discovery. In the blog attached they are producing drawing at a local landfill in Riverside, CA. The day before they took a tour of an exhibition of Blind Photographers at UCR California Museum of Photography, then attempted to duplicate the process of creating images blindfolded, rediscovering their own senses. Spacial learning, hands-on, with good prep are the most important features of our program.

http://artsblockspot.blogspot.com/

Reggie

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On 7/23/09 1:17 PM, "Gina Gage" <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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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