Children's Museum Field Experience Essay

Children’s Museum Field Experience
1. “Seeing the Light” stained glass window display, located in the architectural section of the Children’s Museum, allows students to use the cling shapes to create their own stain glass window. A stain glass window would be an excellent form of visual art to use to teach geometric shapes and polygons. Samples of stain glass windows created from geometric shapes can be displayed on a projector for students to pick out squares, rhombuses, rectangles, triangles, and polygons. After picking out geometric shapes from several stain glass windows displays, students can create their own visual art stain glass window by cutting out the geometric shapes and polygons discussed in the lesson from tissue paper and gluing them to construction paper or waxed paper. To increase the level of difficulty for older grade levels, the teacher can create a project assignment where students propose a design for a stained glass window for an architect including a cost proposal. By requiring specific details, that uses proportions with no gaps or overlapping, where shapes fit perfectly together and by applying a specific cost amount per square inch, this assignment will incorporate several math …show more content…
The Construction Zone, Buddy’s Safety Town, Teddy Bear Clinic, and the Bi-Lo Market allows students to role-play different career choices. A Social Studies lesson about different careers would be a fun lesson inspired by these hands-on exhibits. After conducting research to gather specific information about a career that is appealing to them, students can create a drama or role-play and perform career specific scenes for the class. During the performance or role-play, students can incorporate facts about the career they chose. This can be done individually, as pairs, or in small groups. It would be a good idea for the teacher to provide props or allow students to make props to go along with their career making the presentations even more