Museums and the Common Core: What's Your Role?
Last Tuesday, Brooklyn Historical Society hosted the New York Museum Educators Roundtable (NYCMER) in an event dubbed “Museums and the Common Core: What’s Your Role?” The event was open to NYCMER members and the public and the audience wound up being museum educators from across New York and beyond. Common Core refers to the new Common Core Learning Standards which are being rolled out by the State of New York and the NYCDOE.
Ex Lab Preps Students for College
As the Ex Lab students put the finishing touches on their exhibit, Christina Valdez took a moment to share some of the ways working on Ex Lab has helped her prepare for the challenges of college.
Thanks, Christina!
Open to the Ideas of Others Working on Ex Lab
Inventing This Year’s Ex Lab Exhibit: People, Stages, Progress
This spring, BHS's fifth annual Exhibition Laboratory after-school museum studies program is underway. The fourteen participating high school students are hard at work co-curating BHS's newest exhibit. A few of the students wanted to give you the inside scoop on what it's been like to work on the project. It's my pleasure to introduce guest blogger, Brooklyn Technical High School junior Neil Alacha. Thanks, Neil! Inventing This Year’s Ex Lab Exhibit: People, Stages, Progress…
Was it standard to have gun racks in libraries in 1959?
Ever since Chela mentioned offhand at lunch the other day that the BHS library had once had gun racks, my imagination was captured. I once helped move insanely heavy boxes of muskets in our storage and wondered where and when they'd been on exhibit.
Well, thanks to the "Random Images" button in our online photo search of the John D. Morrell collection, an image popped up which quelled my curiosity.
Back to School / Web Tools for Teachers
Secret Bookstore on Montague
Studio in a School - Teachers' Workshop
Oral History in the Classroom at PS 27 in Red Hook
BHS Breaks 100 Followers on Twitter!
Font of Knowledge
I just discovered this excellent article about lettering on Brooklyn architecture by Paul Shaw on the AIGA website. BHS's original 1881 lettering spelling out "Long Island Historical Society" is included along with dozens of other great lettering in Shaw's article. Check it out!
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/lettering-grows-in-brooklyn
Brooklyn Vets Share with Teachers
It's Happening in Brooklyn!
BHS's exhibit, It Happened in Brooklyn, has been drawing great attendance from NYC public school kids. You may not have known that BHS education staff was part of the Task Force that developed the Scope & Sequence curriculum guide used by Social Studies teachers throughout the city. It Happened in Brooklyn was designed to directly link up to what the kids are learning in class. Kids love the big map on the floor and the musket, but they're also fascinated by the slave bill of sale for a transaction that happened right here in Brooklyn.