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Guided tours of the
Museum's Main Gallery and changing exhibits are
available to student groups from pre-school age through college, after school
programs, day cares, organizations, and families. General tours, providing an
introduction to the Gallery, take about an hour. Specialty tours, which are
planned with group leaders, vary in length from 45 minutes to three hours. They
may include focusing on a particular topic with enrichment activities, games,
time to work on CCHM's Student Response Items, or
supplementary presentations.
Any museum visit can be greatly enhanced by doing some pre- and post- visit
projects, as well as working with museum staff to expand the learning experience
from what students have already studied. By using Student Response Items
before, during, or after a
visit, students are encouraged to think creatively: giving direction to young
minds as a compass to early explorers.
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Educational Programs |
The Cowlitz County Historical Museum
works with community members, local service organizations, area schools and ESD
112 to offer educational programming for students of all ages. To date, adult
craft workshops have featured using natural plant dyes, quilting, making
greeting cards, frame loom weaving, knitting, origami, coil basketry, and
computer scrap booking. General interest classes presented since 2001 have
included How to Do Oral History, The Watercraft of the Voyage of Discovery,
Storytelling, Lower Columbia Weather, Women's Voices from the American West,
Archival Techniques, Teaching with Objects, Around the Last Bend, Local Museum:
Regional Resource, and Performing American History. All of these general
interest classes were approved by ESD 112 for teacher professional development
and clock hours.
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Pizza Boxes: Photos to Go
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Here
at the Cowlitz County Historical Museum are a growing set of pizza
boxes that are labeled and inventoried. The treasures they contain are
assortments of old photographs, diagrams, pamphlets, and maps selected from the
Museum's Education Collection, past museum calendars, and materials used for special
exhibits or programs relating to Cowlitz County and its communities.
Duplicate copies of cigar raft photos, for example, can be found in both
Rivers and Shipping and the
Timber Industry: Logging. Gilmore
Gasoline photos and copies the Gilmore Song used in a
previous Bush Cabin
Exhibit at the Fair are in
Transportation: Highways and Fuel. The
notebook of old schools and photos of the town of Freeport are included in
Communities and Schools of the Past. These
Pizza Boxes to Go, like Traveling Trunks familiar to teachers, were created to
be checked out for use in classroom and other educational programs. A single
sheet of photo-literacy questions in the boxes is designed to stimulate
discussion and encourage viewers to look for interesting details in a sampling
of the pictures.
For more information or to check out one or more
Pizza Boxes for four weeks, contact Education Coordinator
Danielle Robbins
at 360-577-3119 or
robbinsd@co.cowlitz.wa.us.
A
special thank you goes to members of the Washington Reader Corps, especially
Heidi Harding and Elizabeth Evans, who spent several hours working on this
project.
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