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Lesson 3

Lesson 3. Museums: Museums, field trips, and community-based education. Guest Speaker. Deborah Gilpin, Director, Children’s Museum of Phoenix Diane Altus, Phoenix Zoo Diane Benoit-McKee, Arizona Science Center. Key Ideas.

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Lesson 3

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  1. Lesson 3 Museums: Museums, field trips, and community-based education

  2. Guest Speaker • Deborah Gilpin, Director, Children’s Museum of Phoenix • Diane Altus, Phoenix Zoo • Diane Benoit-McKee, Arizona Science Center

  3. Key Ideas • Field trips are an opportunity for children to experience things they can’t experience in their classrooms. Young children (and all of us) learn through direct experience with the world. Their world should be larger than their classroom.

  4. 2. Field trips are often badly planned and therefore end up being a waste of teachers’ and students’ time. Well-planned field trips are a great educational opportunity.

  5. Field trips are not a day off for teachers. They are a lot of work. As a teacher you must spend a lot of time and energy planning the field trip, both conceptually and logistically. Logistical issues include planning transportation, food, money, chaperones, and permission forms. During the field trip you must teach and supervise the children and supervise the chaperones (who are usually parents); and after the field trip you must plan and carry out good follow-up activities.

  6. 4. The field trip itself needs to be constructed and conceptualized as a part of a larger lesson or unit. As a teacher you need to see the field trip as an activity that is tied to something you are teaching. You need to have activities you do in our classroom before and after the fieldtrip so the children get maximum learning out of the fieldtrip experience.

  7. 5. Most children’s museums have staff who are experts in planning good field trips. You should work with these experts to plan your museum visits.

  8. Most museums welcome visits by teachers and students teachers. When you visit, ask to speak with a staff member from the education department.

  9. Websites Organizing field trips for young children: http://www.campsilos.org/excursions/grout/fieldtrip.htm http://www.preschoolbystoremie.com/fieldtrips.htm Ideas for field trips to the zoo: http://www.thewildones.org/Curric/field.html

  10. Sample lesson ideas from the Arizona Science Center Museum: http://www.azscience.org/pdf1_teacher_student_investigation.pdf An example lesson from the Phoenix Zoo: http://www.phoenixzoo.org/educators/pdfs/grade_K_selfguided_tour.pdf Local children’s museums: http://www.arizonamuseumforyouth.com/ http://www.azscience.org/ http://www.phoenixzoo.org/ http://www.childrenmuseumofphoenix/org/

  11. Assignment Questions: • What is one of the questions on the “Forest of Uco” Animal Observation Guide that can be found on the Phoenix Zoo website? • What Labs are available for 2nd and 3rd graders at the Arizona Science Center? • What is the Children’s Museum of Phoenix’s “Museum without walls?” • What is “Artville” at the Arizona Museum for Youth?

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