Thanks Barbara. Great suggestions! Gina the archaeologist -----Original Message----- From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Barbara Hass Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 4:37 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] teaching high schoolers Try contacting the gifted and talented teachers of these kids team up with the public library these kids would use? during school year - team with their HS librarian?? try a web search using the terms gifted HS kids archeology here's one result http://digonsite.com/ search for how teach gifted HS for tips http://giftedexchange.blogspot.com/2008/02/gifted-education-in-high-school.h tml Barbara Hass, retired librarian (k-12) In a message dated 7/23/2009 2:52:26 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: 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 <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). _____ ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).