6/11/10: We began the day at the New York Historical Society building and were greeted warmly by our museum curator. For the life of me, I can’t think of her name! Anyway, she gave us an overview of our subject for the morning: how New York was divided over the issue of the Civil War. One of the activities we completed was very FUN and it would be a great thing to do with our students: we picked an item we thought had been used by people involved with slavery, and we had to tell how/why that object was used. We then had to come up with three questions we would ask our students about this object. It would be so easy to project a group of items on the promethean board, ask each student to pick which item they think would fit the topic, and then have them explain. The rest of the morning was spent going through a wonderful notebook that was given to us by the NYHS staff. The notebook appears to be quite comprehensive.
The afternoon, at least a couple of hours, was spent wandering through the Museum of Natural History. I must confess I am not much “into” this kind of museum, so it was hard to feign an interest. I was fascinated by the model of the blue whale that took up a huge space. He was massive! I’m not exactly sure how I would bring this particular exhibit into my classroom to use with students.
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