Let’s play a word game. I say “museum”. What would you say? History? Dinosaurs? Exhibits? Art? Well I bet what doesn’t come to mind very often is “classroom.” Today I started my first day working in the museum classroom. It is a fantastic place where children can come and experience history and natural history hands-on.
I’ll be working with Stacy Irvin, the Curator of Education. It is funny how small the world can be. When she was a masters student at UNLV she worked with all of my bosses at my job in the Science and Engineering building! But I digress…
Today was pretty low-key. Until the real action starts this summer, Stacy and I will be working on getting the classroom jazzed up and ready to go to have children come in. After a brief intro into the classroom set up I got to work covering bulletin boards and scheming ideas for some displays. I spent a good part of the afternoon performing surgery on our cardboard cutout Rex, the T-Rex. After taping him up and few times and having him fall off, most of his appendages ended up needing a good amount of love and hot glue. Crossing my fingers he stays up – next time would probably result in his death.
One perk of these days in the classroom will be the opportunity to unleash my creative side – or rather create it. I have never been one of those artsy-fartsy types so this will be a good mind-stretching activity. I now also have a greater appreciation for teachers. Who knew working in a museum could be such good preparation for teaching? Talk about killing two birds with one stone. I am looking forward to working with children this summer and doing some hands-on projects with them – it should be fun!
Until next time.
Allison
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