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Smithsonian Educator to Kick Off Workshop
Series
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Contact: Estella Zavala or Susan Cergol, 225-6437
Posted on: January 15, 2002
Stephanie Norby, an educator from the Smithsonian
Institution, will present "From Object to Inquiry: Using
Primary Sources in the Classroom," at 2 p.m. tomorrow,
January 16, at Catalina High School, 3645 E. Pima. The free
presentation is open to the public.
This keynote session kicks off "Artifacts Tell the
Tale," a series of professional development workshops for
teachers offered in conjunction with the Arizona State Museum,
Arizona Historical Society and TUSD's Fine and Performing Arts
Department.
The series is designed to assist teachers in viewing art
and objects as cultural, historical and aesthetic documents as
well as educational resources by providing a theoretical basis
for understanding objects, offering techniques for analyzing
and interpreting objects and suggesting classroom activities
that can employ these principles and techniques. Museum staff
will work with teachers to adapt these activities to build
student skills in reading, writing and math.
The remaining four sessions, open to a selected group of
teachers, will be offered at 2 p.m. on the following dates:
- Jan. 23: "Culture, History and Art: Reading
Material Culture," Arizona State Museum
- Jan. 30: "Comparing Cultures: Reading
Anthropological Collection," Arizona State Museum
- Feb. 6: "How Artifacts Reveal Our History,"
Arizona Historical Society
- Feb. 13: "Reading Artifacts from an Aesthetic and
Design Perspective," TUSD Lee Instructional Resource
Center (LIRC) conference room, 2025 E. Winsett
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