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Students As Curators

This workshop is full! If you'd like to be placed on the waiting list, please register here.

For K-12 Teachers, Administrators, Specialists, and Informal Educators
Free!

The New Mexico Informal Science Network presents a special workshop for K-12 teachers, administrators, specialists, and informal educators: Students As Curators: Demonstrating Learning by Creating Exhibits.

During this workshop, participants will:

  • Explore strategies used by museum curators to create exhibitions and apply this process to help students develop interactive displays of their own work to demonstrate and assess their learning.
  • Learn how to apply these strategies to your curriculum, as well as maximizing the learning environments in your school.
  • Examine new ways to motivate students to strengthen their critical thinking skills and knowledge in the visual, performing and language arts, math, science and social studies.
  • Design a “blueprint” that illustrates how your curriculum concepts, resources, national and state standards, and teaching activities can be transformed into an interactive school museum.
  • View videos of exhibitions created by K-12th graders in schools and libraries nationwide and investigate resources to aid your work.

This workshop is full! If you'd like to be placed on the waiting list, please register here.

Workshop instructor Peg Koetsch is the founder and director of an education consulting company, Learning Insights™ and the program Museum-in-Progress™, and a National Teaching Artist for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Koetsch is an Education Technician for the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where she creates webinars, videoconferences, podcasts and TED-Ed lessons based upon SAAM’s collection, to teach all subjects by integrating the arts.

This workshop is sponsored by:

Date: 
November 3, 2014, 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Type of Event: 
NM EPSCoR Events
Location: 
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History