Welcometo Kid Curators, LLC, where you’ll see how innovative school museum projects can bring the curriculum to life. When students become engaged in designing and constructing school exhibitions, they develop critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and teamwork skills as they learn academic content. After researching, designing, and constructing school exhibitions that are open to the public, your students will enjoy interacting with their visitors and sharing the visual proof of what they’ve learned.
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Upcoming Conference Presentations
World Future Society's Annual Conference--World Future 2007: Fostering Hope and Vision for the 21st Century, July 29 - 31, 2007, Minneapolis, MN Toward a Global Virtual Museum and Collaboratory of the Future: Designed By and For Students.
Past Conference Presentation Highlights
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Annual Conference & Exhibit Show, March 17–19, 2007, Anaheim, CA School Museum Projects: A Powerful Way to Organize Curriculum
and Instruction.
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) On April 2, 2006, at the ASCD Annual Conference in Chicago, Linda, Pat, Dan, and Vicki presented a session about school museum projects.
Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) Annual Fall Forum Purposeful Learning: Student-Created Museums in the
Classroom and Community Presenters:
• Linda D'Acquisto, Kid Curators, LLC
• Mary Pat Clasen, Spanish Language Teacher,
Shorewood High School, Shorewood, WI
On November 2-4, 2006, at the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) Annual Fall Forum in Chicago, IL, Linda and Mary Pat presented a session about school museum projects. Linda opened with an overview of the full Kid Curator process and Mary Pat presented her classroom museum project (see the Motorcycle Diaries slide show in the "examples" section of this website).
AAM: K-12 Curators: What Do Kids Learn by Making Exhibitions? On April 27th, 2006, at the Annual American Association of Museums Conference in Boston, Linda, Marie, and Christi shared information about their programs; each of which involves students in exhibition design and development.
Articles
Read about a 6th grade Kid Curator project about the environment that was featured in the New Berlin NOW newspaper: www.newberlinnow.com
The fall 2006 issue of the Exhibitionist included an article
by Linda D’Acquisto and Marie Scatena (of the Chicago History Museum) called K-12 Curators:What Kids Learn by Designing Exhibitions (see Exhibitionist, Volume 25, No. 2, Fall, 2006, pp. 38-45, or visit: http://www.n-a-m-e.org
