Tag: Great Brain
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Work hard for a living
I never thought I’d get excited about economic history. Or economics, in general. But when everything crashed in 2008, I got interested. I remember being completely transfixed while listening to This American Life’s podcast about the real estate meltdown (A Giant Pool of Money). And dumbfounded that I was so fascinated. I started reading the…
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Christmas Classics
Though it’s not quite the holiday season yet, I’ve spent much of this morning reading Christmas scenes from various children’s books. For Candlelight (the museum’s biggest event of the year), I decided to create a pre-visit lesson plan for teachers visiting in December. And what better way to talk about how holidays have changed in…
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Beyond the frontier
At my museum, we get a lot of school tours. Sometimes, we even get survey responses or comments or samples of the lesson plans teachers use to prep for the field trip. Generally speaking, this makes me very, very happy. And generally speaking, I’m amazed to see how creative teachers are in connecting their textbooks…
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Everybody poops. . .
For anyone who spends any time with children, there are certain questions and subjects that come up over and over again. Subjects like bathrooms and poop. At a museum like ours, this comes up fairly frequently. We have outhouses, including one two-seater (glamour!). We also have donkeys–you can always tell when they poop in front…
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