Baseball Hall of Fame: School Program Follow Up

Just following up on today's presentation from Anna Wade. Below are some resources she shared with us:


Basball HOF curriculum modules
Baseball HOF revamped economic curriculum
Museum Education presentation

Resource of the Day from James Yasko

http://www.groupon.com/

Public Program A Success!

The Public Program, Heart of the Home & The Real Housewives of the 19th Century, attracted over 80 visitors and was a great success! Here is a summary of the evaluations from the program. What were the lessons learned from our program, and what kind of improvements could have been made?

The Real Housewives of the 19th Century: Program Details

Here are the planning details for each group as we discussed today:

Group 1 (Planning/Logistics):
Program: Place setting
Molly Sloan
Danielle Smith
Stephanie Cadwell
Rachel Schwartzman

Title: Not a Microwave Meal
- Dining section of exhibit; place setting game; and seating arrangement activity/order of events
Exhibit connection: It is part of the exhibit and expands on it.
Goals:
1.Learn how they set the table
2.Learn how they arrange the household hierarchy at the dinner table
3.Learn the serving order
Supplies:
2 sizes paper plates
Paper bowls
Plastic silverware
Napkins
Blank note cards
Construction paper
2 table cloths
2 tables and 4 chairs
$40-50


Group 2 (Marketing/PR)
Program: Calling Cards and meaning
Martina Camarda
Katherine Miller
Kelly Holman

Title: Before voicemail...there were calling cards
- learning how to make calling cards (and doing so)
Goals:
1. To understand what calling cards are
2. To understand what they are used for
3. To understand why
Supplies:
Card stock and markets


Group 3 (Budget and Materials)
Program: Piecework/flowermaking
Sydney Jenkins
Rebecca Redman
Arianna Galluzzo

Title: needed- Flowermaking activity
- located in the front part of the museum (Hartwick College museum club wall) to create atmosphere of a 19th century home
Exhibit connection: looking towards immigrant women as an example, home life, domestic/labor/working in the home. Talk about what the flowers were used for (hats, wealthy women profited off labor)
Goals:
1.Show the difficulty of this activity
2. Show reality of home life/labor
3.Marking little money for all your efforts
Supplies:
Tissue paper
Rulers
Pencils
Scissors
Floral wire
Green pipe cleaners
$40


Group 4 (Evaluation)
Program: Quilting element/design (African American focus)
Margaret Webb
Rebecca Welton
Jessica Halbohm

Title: Amazing Technicolor Dream Quilts: The Importance of Quilting in the 19th Century Black Community
- Located in Yager Museum classroom. Participants will construct their own paper quilt and be encouraged to include colors/symbols/etc that are important to them.
Exhibit Connection: This program deals with the African American section of the exhibit and importance of quilting to the black community in the 19th century.
Goals:
1. Understand importance of quilting to African Americans
2. Create/spark an interest in African American culture
3. Relate the process of quilting in the 1800s to the modern quilting process
4. Homesewn vs mass produced
Supplies:
Scrapbooking paper in bright/interesting colors and patterns
Scissors
Tape/glue stick
Markers, pens and colored pencils
Display board for presenting meaning of colors and patterns
Candy for filling out evaluations during program
$40-50

Additional details:

• Scavenger hunt (8 questions total- 2 from each group)
• Completed scavenger hunt entered into drawing for prize

Announcing THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF THE 19TH CENTURY!

Join the 2010 museum education class for their special public program, The Real Housewives of the 19th Century, on Saturday, April 17th from 12pm to 3pm.

Welcome Museum Education 2010!

Hello and welcome to MUST-304 Places of Learning: Museums and Education. We will be using this blog to post the discussions and ideas that are generated during our class. We look forward to a very busy and engaging semester with you all!

Best regards,

Andrew and Melissa