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| A teacher from School #34 in Jersey City paints during a workshop. |
These programs enhance many areas of your curriculum, provide
new insight and perspective on specific subjects and offer
new educational resources and tools for you and, ultimately,
for your students. The museum offers programs relating to topics
in the arts, sciences, history, and values and leadership.
These programs relate to New Jersey Core Curriculum Content
Standards as noted under each program description.
The Morris Museum is a registered professional development
service provider, #5488. A certificate of completion is provided
to all participants.
Program prices include resource materials and classroom activities. For Thursday evening workshops, a light supper of sandwiches and beverages is included. For Saturday workshops, a light lunch of sandwiches and beverages is included. Payment is due within two weeks of making a reservation.
Professional Development Workshops at the Morris Museum
are supported in part by FirstEnergy
Foundation.
Pre-registration is required for each workshop. Please
call the Morris Museum at 973.971.3710 or use the registration
form.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:30-7 p.m.
$30 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Ellen Snyder-Grenier, Guinness Collection curator; Jere Ryder, Guinness Collection conservator
Join us for a behind the scenes look at the newly constructed museum wing for the Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata. You will enjoy a tour and engaging discussions with museum collections staff, explore how automatic instruments – the precursors of records, CDs and digital music – work, what they meant in their time and how they were made. Through Guinness Collection automata – musical animated figures that imitate people or animals – discover how eighteenth-century virtuoso artisans inspired nineteenth-century Parisian craftsmen to create the mechanical marvels of their time. Participants will also enjoy a live demonstration of selected mechanical musical instruments and automata. Diverse museum programming opportunities will be on display and museum staff will be available to answer questions.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.1 – 1.3, 1.5; Science Standards 5.2, 5.4, 5.7; Social Studies Standards 6.3, 6.4
Saturday, November 17 and December 1, 2007
(Two-part workshop – registration for both required)
(6 credit hours)
9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
$85 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Nancy J. Ori, professional photographer, fine art exhibitor and video producer; New Jersey Media Center LLC
Are you looking for some basic photography and camera information to add some fun projects to your lesson plans? Ori will cover basic use of available light, camera controls, composition, and camera accessories for digital and film cameras. Explore the basic principles and take home lots of tips and insights on how to simplify the technical information. Discussions will center on point and shoot and consumer level digital and film SLR cameras. Other topics include: action photography, portraits, close ups and landscapes. This workshop is designed for the beginning level photographer who is teaching in a middle or high school environment. Bring a camera and its instruction booklet, notebook and photo project ideas to the first session.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.1 – 1.4; Language Arts Literacy Standard 3.5; Science Standard 5.4
Thursday, November 29, 2007
4:30-7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: James Frankel, Ed.D.; elementary and middle school music educator, clinician and consultant
This workshop introduces the concepts behind Podcasting- everything from creating podcasts to publishing them on iTunes. Participants will learn how to create podcasts using GarageBand 3.0, including how to incorporate video into a podcast. Publishing the podcasts via iWeb and other web design programs will be covered as well. In addition, participants will learn about other podcasting resources including ProfCast, getting your podcast onto iTunes, iTunes U, creating an RSS feed for subscriptions and many student podcasts will be shared. All teachers are welcome to attend this workshop.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.1 – 1.4; Language Arts Literacy Standards 3.2, 3.3, 3.5; Science Standard 5.2; Technological Literacy Standards 8.1, 8.2
Thursday, January 31, 2008
4:30-7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: John Kraft, archeologist/educator; creator and director of Lenape Lifeways Educational Program, Inc
This engaging slide-illustrated program was designed to reconstruct the culture-history of the indigenous people who once populated New Jersey and the surrounding area.The first half of the workshop will cover the region's 12,000 years of Native prehistory by examining legends, art, religious beliefs, customs and traditions, daily life, economy and system of government. During the second half, Kraft will discuss the European contact, interaction with new settlers, native displacement and the Lenape/Delaware people today. This workshop will help audiences develop an historical comprehension and separate misinformation from historical fact. Participants will also have an opportunity to handle authentic and recreated objects such as masks, clothing, musical instruments and tools.
Visual and Performing ArtsStandards 1.1, 1.5; Social Studies Standards 6.3 – 6.5
Thursday, February 21, 2008
4:30-7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Pat Heaney, Population Connection trainer; naturalist for Kateri Environmental Center and Day Camp
How many people can the Earth support? The answer depends on how we use resources, such as land, water and energy. In this timely, interdisciplinary workshop, participants will engage in hand-on/minds-on activities that will build students’ understanding for growth patterns, carrying capacity and cause-and-effect relationships in order to appreciate human impact on the Earth’s natural resources and ecosystems. The activities will also enhance students’ data collection, analysis and deductive reasoning skills. Participants will engage in role-playing simulations, games and cooperative learning challenges that build and facilitate thoughtful classroom discussion. Several resources will be distributed, such as a CD-ROM with over 50 activities and related background information. This workshop is geared toward middle school teachers.
Language Arts Literacy Standards 3.1 – 3.4; Mathematics Standards 4.1, 4.4, 4.5; Science Standards 5.1, 5.3, 5.5, 5.8, 5.10; Social Studies Standards 6.2, 6.5, 6.6; Technological Literacy Standard 8.2
Thursday, February 28, 2008
4:30-7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Maureen Heffernan, executive director of Young Audiences Institute
During this interactive workshop teachers will gain understanding of how NJCCC Standards for Social Studies and Visual and Performing Arts are connected. You will acquire and create arts integration lessons to motivate students to appreciate how knowledge of social studies is fundamental to life-long learning. Activities include interpreting Civil War photographs, creating a comic strip and acting out a scene the photographs depict. Teachers will gain confidence in developing lessons that integrate Social Studies NJCCC Standards in other content areas with particular attention to the arts.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.1 – 1.3; Language Arts Literacy Standards 3.2 – 3.5; Social Studies Standards 6.3, 6.4
Thursday, March 6, 2008
4:30-7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Pam Kane, co-director of Brightest Star School of Performing Arts; New Jersey certified music educator
Bring your New Jersey Social Studies curriculum to life by integrating drama, music and movement into your classroom. Participants will learn traditional games and build an instrument of the Delaware Indians, and re-tell and dramatize Lenape folktales. Dutch and English explorers will be the inspiration for a project called “My Journey to New Jersey” where family trees will come to life. Additional topics and related activities include, New Jersey Lighthouses, the photography of Dwight Hiscano, and simple dances of elite and common people from the Colonial Period and Revolutionary War.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.1 – 1.3, 1.5; Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Standard 2.5; Language Arts Literacy Standards 3.2, 3.3; Social Studies Standards 6.2 – 6.4
Thursday, March 27, 2008
4:30-7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Vernoy Paolini, School Wide Enrichment teacher for Lounsberry Hollow Middle School; vice president of the council of Holocaust Educators; president of Diversity Council of Kean University
Immigration built this country and made it the eclectic blend of cultures, traditions, religions and colors it boasts of today. Unless you are 100% Native American, your ancestors immigrated to the United States, making us all immigrants! However, today there are many questions regarding the status of people living in the USA who did not enter the country legally. Many have worked for years, have established their families here and have been productive, law-abiding citizens, but there is the pervasive threat of terrorism that has forced us to take another look at this concern. Join us to explore the contributions that have been made by immigrants to our society and to our country. Look at the struggles they endured and the sacrifices they made to give us this rich history. Be a part of the discussion that will ask the hard questions about the options the government has in dealing with the growing issue of "illegal aliens." Strategies will be provided for use in the classroom.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.1, 1.5; Social Studies Standards 6.2, 6.4 - 6.6
Saturday, March 29, 2008
9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
$30 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Jenny Gaus, Project WET facilitator, superintendent of Environmental Education of Morris County Park Commission, adjunct professor of Environmental Education at Fairleigh Dickinson University
Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) provides educators with accurate insights into critical water issues while offering a large selection of creative teaching strategies that are hands-on, easy to use and fun. You will learn how to adapt several of the activities from the curriculum guide to your classroom and how they can be correlated to NJCCC Standards. Each participant will receive a WET curriculum guide containing over 90 interdisciplinary activities and lesson plans, “Wrap-Up” ideas and background information designed to facilitate and promote awareness, appreciation, knowledge and stewardship of water resources.
Language Arts Literacy Standards 3.1 – 3.3; Science Standards 5.1 – 5.10; Social Studies Standard 6.6
Thursday, May 1, 2008
4:30-7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Dahlia Elsayed, teaching artist for Young Audiences New Jersey
Using simple craft materials and found objects, you will create a hand bound personal journal. Together participants will also create a group poem based on sense memories. This workshop will help create a comfortable environment to encourage you and your students to work with the hands and create images with words. Also, many examples will be discussed on how this art form can be enhanced to include students with special needs.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.1 – 1.3; Language Arts Literacy Standards 3.1 – 3.4
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
4:30-6 p.m.
$10 per teacher
Join us for an open house just for you! Discover various resources at the Morris Museum and learn about the programming opportunities we have for you and your students, including programs, theatre performances and exhibitions in the arts, sciences and humanities that appeal to a wide audience from kindergarten on through high school. In addition to offering professional development workshops and museum education programs, we also offer School Loan and Outreach Education where we bring the museum to you! Morris Museum staff will be on hand to present these opportunities, provide tours of current exhibitions and open doors to a whole new world of educational experiences for your teachers and students. Several exclusive discounts will be distributed!
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