EVENT PROGRAM
Table of Contents Making the most of the day 2 Participating museums and program descriptions 3, 4
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The Houston Museum District is committed to making cultural arts accessible to everyone by providing unparalleled opportunities for education, inspiration, and recreation.
Making the most of the day
WHO SHOULD ATTEND? All educators are welcome. PLANNING YOUR DAY WHY ATTEND? Use this program to schedule your day Learn about educational resources, and visit multiple museums. training, programs, tools, and field Registration confirmation receipt is trips available at Houston-area your pass to each host museum and museums. presentation.
EVENT ADMISSION FREE GENERAL ADMISSION Free! Registration required through Receive a wristband upon check-in at event website or onsite. any host museum. Wristbands serve Day-of registration available at any as a free general admission pass to all host museum. participating museums on event day only. One wristband per educator. GETTING AROUND THE DISTRICT Start your day at any host museum. CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS All host museums are within walking Earn up to four hours of G/T, SPED, distance of each other. Allow travel ESL credits. Credits offered in one time between museums. hour increments. Free and paid parking is available within the Houston Museum District.
The Houston Museum District is committed to making cultural arts accessible to everyone by providing unparalleled opportunities for education, inspiration, and recreation.
Participating museums
Host museums Children’s Museum of Houston (CMH) – 1500 Binz Street Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) – 5401 Caroline Street The Health Museum (THM) – 1515 Hermann Drive The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) – 5601 Main Street, Beck Bldg. Guest museums 1940 Air Terminal Museum @ THM Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston @ MFAH Downtown Aquarium @ CMH (information booth only) George Ranch Historical Park & Fort Bend Museum Association @ CMH Houston Museum of Natural Science (informational materials at all host museums) Lone Star Flight Museum @ THM National Museum of Funeral History @ MFAH (information booth only) The Jung Center @ HMH
Program descriptions E = Elementary | M = Middle School | H = High School | HS = Home School
1940 Air Terminal Museum Children’s Museum of Houston Fall into Fall (E, M, H, HS) Project-Based Learning (E) 9 am | 11 am 9 am Calendar getting away from you and still need to Join us as we explore cross-curricular connections plan an affordable field trip or education workshop? of STEM concepts through children’s cultural Fly by our presentation today and pick up an event literature. Discover how you can challenge your schedule. Craft stations and free giveaways will be students’ imagination within the context of provided. storytelling and tinkering.
Children’s Museum of Houston Children’s Museum of Houston Early Money Matters: Hands-On Financial Literacy Cool Chemistry for Kids (E) for Learners (E) 10 am | 11 am 9 am Part One | 10 am Part Two Join in for an interactive workshop that teaches how Uncover the secrets of how to help your students to transform your classroom into a chemistry lab! become a financial whiz taught through hands-on Experiments will cover properties and reactions of activities and real world application. Learn how to matter. These experiments will create enthusiasm make spending, savings, and sharing financial and a new understanding of chemistry in your concepts easy for anyone to understand and use. students.
Program descriptions continued E = Elementary | M = Middle School | H = High School | HS = Home School
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston The Health Museum Tour & Workshop Opportunities (E, M, H, HS) Life Lab, Fear: Face It! (E, HS) 10 am | 11 am | 12 pm 9 am | 11 am Learn more about upcoming exhibitions and the Learn how our permanent exhibit including our tour and workshop opportunities offered to DeBakey Cell Lab and our new immersion labs will educators of all levels. enhance your curriculum. Educators will have an opportunity to explore the science behind fear and George Ranch Historical Park & perform an owl pellet dissection. Fort Bend Museum Association Giving Dimension to the Past (E, M) The Health Museum 11 am | 12 pm The DeBakey Cell Lab (M, H, HS) Learn how we take one-dimensional historical 10 am | 12 pm figures and create three-dimensional stories We will excite educators with our permanent students will remember. exhibits and challenge you to explore your deepest fears in our life lab. Our Amazing Body Gallery and Holocaust Museum Houston hands-on activities are both interactive and fun. Personal Narratives of the Holocaust (M, H, HS) 9 am | 10 am The Jung Center Want to move beyond the Diary of Anne Frank? This C.G. Jung: A Brief Introduction (M, H, HS) presentation will expand an educator’s awareness of 11 am | 12 pm primary source materials that relate to the Encounter the fascinating life and works of Holocaust, prepare educators to work with different psychiatrist C.G. Jung. A key figure in depth geographic representations, gender and age psychology, Jung developed theories that experiences of the Holocaust and to develop a embraced spirituality, myth, and the imagination. better understanding of the use of personal narratives as learning models for students. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Sketching Works En Plein Air (E, M, H, HS) Lone Star Flight Museum 9 am | 10 am | 11 am Today and Beyond (E, H, HS) Inspired by the new exhibition, Julian Onderdonk and 10 am | 12 pm the Texan Landscape, participants are invited to An overview of our education program that focuses journey outside to the Cullen Sculpture Garden and on science, technology, mathematics, engineering, practice different sketching techniques and learn and history and a preview of the new Aviation about the tools artists use when creating drawings Learning Center will be explored. en plein air.