Tonight students from Mr. Taylor’s Social Studies classes will host an exhibit night at the Rogers Historical Museum. The title of the exhibition is Artifacts Across the Ages (did you catch the AAA reference? We have brilliant students!).
Mr. Jones, Director of Arts Integration, and Mr. Taylor have collaborated over the past four years to develop an arts integration curriculum for 6th grade Social Studies. The results have been amazingly successful for student learning, information retention and creative production and this year we are piloting an end of the year exhibition with our partnering institution the Rogers Historical Museum.
The exhibition will feature student work in form of a created object, curated collections of works, written historic labels, and personalized tours. The exhibition is culmination of two semesters worth of work. At the end of each unit students create an “artifact” using the media, language, iconography, tools and techniques from a specific culture. The process of creating the “artifacts” make meaningful connections to the core content of the discipline. And after a year of learning and creating the artifacts will be on display at the Rogers Historical Museum as an exhibition!
Students worked with Museum staff earlier this month to plan the exhibition. Ashely Sayers, Education Manager at Rogers Historical Museum, organized a week of collection and exhibition training for the classes then invited the students to prepare the galleries, write labels and install the artifacts this week. At the exhibition opening tonight students will also serve as curatorial docents to lead visitors through the exhibit providing contextual information about the curated artifacts which include: Babylonian cuneiform cones, Egyptian hieroglyphic slabs, Chinese woodblocks and Japanese Haiku Haigas.
The opening of the Artifacts Across the Ages exhibition is tonight, Thursday, May 25th from 5:30-7:30 pm at Rogers Historical Museum and will be on display through Saturday.
THANK YOU to our partnering museum the Rogers Historical Museum for this opportunity! Special thank you to Ashely Sayers, Education Manager; Glen Christophersen, Education Assistant; Jennifer Kick, Collections Manager; Rachel Smith, Curator of Collections and Executive Director, Serena Barnett!