1. Anth 3310 09 April 2012 Museum Education-- Children

4. My Summer/Fall Offerings: Anth. 5310/6310: Archaeology Lab Work and Curation (1-3 units) Anth. 5800: Helping w/ Museum of Anthropology.. Saturdays or Special Project (1-3 units)

5. Reading Quiz Is Museum Education “Rocket Science”? AND Progressive Education and Museum Education: Anna Billings Gallup and Louise Connolly For your reading quiz today, please write a one paragraph reflection/response to oe or both of today’s readings. -For full credit, your paragraph will need to in some way show me that you read and interacted with the themes in the article(s).

6. Hein, Progressive Education and Museum Education: Anna Billings Gallup and Louise Connolly Anna Billings Gallup, Brooklyn Children’s Museum -Bring kids into contact w/ subjects that appeal to their everyday life -bring items home with them, but have to earn right -museum should provide opportunities that school and home cannot

7. Hein, Progressive Education and Museum Education: Anna Billings Gallup and Louise Connolly Louise Connolly, Newark Museum -observing real objects, first in person, then in museums -movies as educational -creative use of props

8. Hein, Progressive Education and Museum Education: Anna Billings Gallup and Louise Connolly -active engagement -embrace and exhibit every-day experience of ordinary people

9. Dragotto, et al.: Is Museum Education “Rocket Science”? Responsibilities of Education Directors Event planning Training volunteers Writing scripts for shows Writing grant proposals Distance learning Presenting live programs/ presentations Collaborating with other museums Adapting programs to serve those with special needs Planning courses Evaluating programs

10. Dragotto, et al.: Is Museum Education “Rocket Science”? Educators have different back grounds: science, museum, education Informal vs. Formal Educators School Trip Numbers Down: Must make strong link between field trip content and state standards Distance “visitors” Educate about basic facts and also interpret new complex scientific findings Need complex, developed skill set Need to have what kids can’t get at home or in school.. And on tv or at theme parks

12. Programs: Natural History Museum of Utah http://www.nhmu.utah.edu/http://www.nhmu.utah.edu/

13. Programs: Utah Museum of Fine Arts http://umfa.utah.edu/http://umfa.utah.edu/

14. Programs: Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum http://www.discoverygateway.org/http://www.discoverygateway.org/

15. The Leonardo http://www.theleonardo.org/http://www.theleonardo.org/

16. Hill Aerospace Museum: http://www.hill.af.mil/library/museum/ http://www.hill.af.mil/library/museum/

17. UMOCA: http://www.utahmoca.org/http://www.utahmoca.org/

18. Group Work Time: Design a Children/Families Museum Program Type of Museum: Title and Description: Why is this program a good fit with this type of museum? Frequency: How will you fund materials/staff?: Target Audience: How will you advertise?: