Educators
Science and Technology Field Trips, Resources, and HandoutsEducation Initiative – Mission
As a National Historic Landmark, inspire people, particularly children, to learn and appreciate science and history that has impacted their daily lives
Content
- Existing InfoAge capabilities
- Target audiences
- Path Forward
- Benefit to InfoAge
- Benefit to Educators
- Challenges – Action Items
Existing InfoAge Capabilities
- Passive Museum Displays –
- Artifacts – Displays of important technological developments from 1914 to present day
- History – The story of Camp Evans and its impact on our nation’s well being
- Interactive Museum Displays –
- One-on-one and group interactions with museum historians
- Hands-on displays
- Formal Presentations –
- Speaker’s Bureau Presentations – Fifty presentations that are offered on-site or remotely (virtual)
- InfoAge Space Exploration Center (ISEC)
- InfoAge Lecture Series – Invited guests
- Classroom and Laboratory Space – Space Camp and Camp Invention
Target Audiences
- Elementary School STEM Programs – Asbury Park
- Middle School STEM programs – New Hanover
- High School STEM programs – Manasquan, Neptune, Jackson, Freehold, Ilan
- Home School STEM programs – Camp WOW
- Boy/Girl Scouts Merit Badges/Advancement
- Colleges and Universities – Princeton, Rensselaer Polytech., Yale, Brookdale Community College
Path Forward
- Expand Interactions with local schools
- Build on existing platforms
- Add programs to address science/technology areas not currently available on-site
- Recruit young people to become part of InfoAge
Benefit to InfoAge
- Fulfillment of InfoAge Mission
- Educating the public
- Improving Public Relations
- Ensuring Sustainability
Benefit to Educators
- Compliment/supplement curricula
- Provide historian/docent experiences
- Hands-on knowledge
- Student programs to enhance preparation for college – STEM
Challenges – Action Items
- Development and tracking of Projects –
- Project plan format – deliverables
- Attracting individuals and groups to InfoAge
- School and Scouts contacts
- Managing the interface with perspective participants
- More face-to-face interactions
- Attracting appropriate staff to deliver
- Attracting seed funding
Specifics
- Improve Contacts with:
- Monmouth College – Melissa Ziobro (Adj. Professor, Public History)
- Brookdale – Daniel Lopez (STEM Institute)
- Princeton – Dan Marlow (Professor, Physics)
- Wall High School
- Others – Manasquan High School
- Identify students
- Train as historians
- Create museum displays/presentations
- Modernize displays
- Bring new technologies to museum
More resources and information will be available as they are developed.
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