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For years, school trip attendance served as the lifeblood of many cultural institutions. A large percentage of an institution’s attendance—and earned revenue—could come from a concentration of visits spread out over a ten week period each spring. But with testing for No Child Left Behind focusing on math and language arts skills, precious little money and time available, and soaring gasoline prices making travel prohibitively expensive, many museums have seen a huge decline in school visitation.
But No Child Left Behind does not necessarily mean No School Field Trips! Use the resources we have gathered below to stay up to date with curriculum frameworks, current learning theories, and tips on how to engage young visitors with these resources. Enabling children and adults to connect with the past is a proven means of building audience—for today and tomorrow.
Want to know more? Visit the HRC Community Center to dig deeper and see all Museum Education related resources.
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 The Good Guide: A SourceBook...
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A good tour will be remembered for a long time. A bad tour will be remembered longer. Indeed, many museum visitors would rather grapple on their own with new information in a museum than succumb to the potential horrors of a guided tour. However, the elements that make up for a great tour are... Read More >> |
Lessons Without Limit: How Free-Choice Learning is...
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People like to learn.That's the good news.The challenge for museums, however, is that people have many options competing with museum collections and exhibitions when it comes to where and how they learn new things. Lessons Without Limit by John Falk and Lynn Dierking introduces the reader to... Read More >> |
So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles...
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Student field trips to museums are a great way for teachers to enhance their curriculum using authentic objects in a unique and enriching environment.However, the student-centered approach to teaching in the modern classroom (interactive group work for example) can look very different than the more traditional methods... Read More >> |
 Connecticut Curriculum Frameworks: Key Resources
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If museum field trips are to be considered truly educational, and worthy of the ever-shrinking transportation dollars, etc., and not merely a day away from the classroom, the museum's teaching goals should be aligned with those of the classroom teachers.The Connecticut State Department of Education has posted their... Read More >> |
Historical Thinking & Other Unnatural Acts
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At heritage sites, the best school programs start from a fundamental understanding of the goals of history education.In Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts, Sam Wineburg, a Professor of Education at Stanford University, explains how historians think about the past and how they use primary sources. Good history instruction, he tells... Read More >> |
Great Tours!
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One of my first assignments fresh out of graduate school was to create a student house tour of the Butler-McCook House in Hartford. And the first book I turned to for help was Great Tours!: Thematic Tours and Guide Training for Historic Sites. Great Tours! helps tour writers focus on the material culture... Read More >> |
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