SECTION: SCHOOL RESOURCES
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Teachers' Professional Development Workshops
Join your colleagues and curriculum experts to learn
new tips and techniques to enhance your professional
skills and improve classroom learning. Workshops are
free and are conveniently scheduled on Thursday evenings.
Seating is limited, please call (609) 292-6310 to register.
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November 19, 2009 Memoir Writing: Where Imagination & Memory Meet
Presented with Young Audiences New Jersey
Grades: 3-12; From 5:00 pm until 7:30 pm free of charge Learn the difference between merely telling what happened
and how to make your writing meaningful, satisfying,
and true. A series of short readings and writing prompts
will get you started and demonstrate ideas to use with
your own students.
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December 17, 2009
Papermaking in the Classroom
Presented with Young Audiences New Jersey
Grades: 3-12; From 5:00 pm
until 7:30 pm free
of charge
This highly creative process can be easily adapted to fit
your classroom, skills, and budget. Participants will
create beautiful paper, explore low-tech processes,
learn new classroom management techniques, and explore
how this process can be applied to their curriculum.
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January 21, 2010
Lessons in Tolerance
Presented with Young Audiences New Jersey
Grades: 3-12; From 5:00 pm until 7:30 pm free of charge An examination of the causes and social costs of the Holocaust,
genocide and persecution, followed by the development
of positive artistic and intellectual responses to these
events. As part of the program, students make a commitment
to practicing the ideals of tolerance while the Institute
Staff is present; and modifying future behaviors. They
will also recreate art that was used as non-violent
response to oppression: body percussion, code songs,
arpilleras and mandalas.
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February 18, 2010
Curating an Exhibit Across Curricula
Presented with Young Audiences New Jersey Grades: K-12; From 5:00 pm
until 7:30 pm free
of charge
Help students to better understand concepts such as planning,
story telling, scale and proportion, as well as diverse
cultures through designing a museum exhibition. This
workshop will give teachers the skills to help students
- or teams of students - curate a "mini" exhibition
from the planning process to the final installation.
The exhibitions will be produced in a miniature scale
and can cover a variety of wide-ranging topics from
the arts, to ancient cultures, to the sciences, etc.
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March 18, 2010 Visual Literacy: The Language of Image
Presented with Young Audiences New Jersey Grades: K-12; From 5:00
pm until 7:30 pm free
of charge
Teachers will learn: how we process pictorial data and
construct meaning from images, how to help students
examine and evaluate pictures from different perspectives,
and how to explore visual metaphors and composition
in order to create their own language for discussion
of visual imagery.
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April 15, 2010 Woodworking Using Natural Form & Design
Presented with Young Audiences New Jersey Grades: 4-12; From 5:00
pm until 7:30 pm free
of charge
Participants will learn how to use wood in its natural
forms (e.g., branches, logs, vines, etc.) and woodworking
tools to create a variety of objects including unique
sculptures, birdhouses, or stools. You will learn how
this work connects to science and technology as well
as design, and the function of design in the natural
environment. Teachers will explore how this medium encourages
problem solving and collaboration. A great workshop
for visual art, science, or wood-shop teachers!
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May 20, 2010
Examining the Art/Literacy Link in the Classroom
Presented with Young Audiences New Jersey
Grades: K-12; From 5:00
pm until 7:30 pm free
of charge
Examine ways of increasing the art/literacy connection
in your classroom and your students' growth in both
areas. Participants will explore how language used can
encourage children's creativity and verbal expression
in areas including vocabulary, spatial relations, and
aesthetic choices. Choose collage, paint, wood, clay,
drawing, or print-making. (No art experience is needed).
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June 17, 2010
If Pots Could Speak: A History of Pre-Historic Ceramics
from New Jersey
Grades: 4-12; From 5:00
pm until 7:30 pm free
of charge
The examination of ceramics is much more than looking
at pieces of broken pottery. These little pieces and sometimes
whole pots open windows onto prehistoric technology, style,
and cultural affiliation. At each level of analysis they
provide additional information to the larger story of
whole cultural system. Through museum collections, students
will examine prehistoric ceramics from New Jersey and
other related artifacts to understand their manufacture,
meaning and importance to the native peoples of the area.
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Main Museum Building and Auditorium Galleries
205 West State Street, Trenton Tuesday –
Saturday, 9 am to 5 pm Sunday, noon to 5 pm
Closed Mondays & State
Holidays
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The Friends Museum Shop is located on the second floor of the Museum's main building.
The Shop Hours
10am - 4pm, Tuesday to Saturday
Noon - 4pm on Sunday
The Friends Shop is closed on Mondays and State Holidays
For more info call: 609-826-3936
Friends members always receive a 10% discount on all purchases.
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