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December
17, 2001
One
of the Spurlock Museum's most popular middle school outreach programs
is the ancient Egypt research project. A part of the Museum Problems
in Today’s World series, this program allows students to
take on the role of Museum Curator in a real-life situation: a visitor
has come into the museum and told the staff that information on
one of the Museum’s labels is wrong.
Working in groups, the
students use resources provided by the Museum, their teachers, the
school library, and the Internet to decide if the visitor was right
or wrong.
An emphasis
is made in the classroom on the use of reliable resources. At the
end of the project, the students present their findings to a panel
of Spurlock Museum staff members.
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These
are the artifacts in question
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Close-up
of artifact
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