First off, couldn't help laughing about at the "living history" irony comment...sounds like a great project. What about doing a scavenger hunt, in which the kids have to find the oldest gravestone, most ornate gravestone, simplest gravestone, etc....have them work with their parents, for the oldest gravestone, have them figure out what also happened around the same period in history, if they are too young to write, have them draw it. I think talking about symbols is a great idea....very artistic....teaches children to look at everything to learn shapes and details! Good Luck!
Emily Holtrop
Historical Museum of Southern Florida
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>Subject: Re: Hands on activity for cemetery tour.
>Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 10:11:44 -0700
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>Teri,
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>I'm not sure how people will react to headstone
>coloring books. I think it sounds cool, and I think
>focusing on symobls is interesting.
>
>Depending on your budget, manipulative materials might
>be fun. Maybe a one page booklet featuring a blank
>headstone where you could affix and remove (like
>magnetic word poetry) a variety of symbols and quotes.
> A timeline with space for drawings at significant
>dates/events might be nice, also. This could get
>people past focusing on the person's death and more
>into considering his or her life.
>
>Good luck,
>Dan
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>--- Teri Pope <
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> > Greetings to the list,
> >
> > I am participating in an upcoming community outreach
> > fair which will showcase educational opportunities
> > for
> > kids in our area. I will be representing the school
> > tour program for Sacramento's Old City Cemetery (ca
> > 1849) which I manage. (Believe me, the irony of
> > doing
> > "living history" in a cemetery is NOT lost on me!)
> >
> > I am trying to devise something that kids can take
> > with them from our table to go with the tour
> > brochure.
> > A coloring sheet came to mind, with either
> > sketches
> > and captions of gravestone symbols (fairly neutral,
> > not-to-religious ones) or of noteworthy gravestones
> > in
> > our cemetery (Mark Hopkins, or John Sutter, Jr., for
> > example).
> >
> > My questions are these: Would the general public
> > find
> > these too morbid for children? And, does anyone
> > have
> > any other ideas?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Teri Pope
> > Educational Tours Coordinator
> > Saxramento Old City Cemetery
> >
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