The Smithsonian Summer Sessions: Teaching with Museum Objects

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The Smithsonian Summer Sessions: Teaching with Museum Objects provided by edX is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 42 weeks long, 1-2 hours a week. The Smithsonian Summer Sessions: Teaching with Museum Objects is taught by Maureen Leary, Candra Flanagan, Abby Pfisterer, Dr. Orlando Serrano, Ashleigh D. Coren, Briana Zavadil White, Elizabeth Dale-Deines, Phoebe Hillemann, Tess Porter, Dr. Philippa Rappoport, Kirsten McNally, Cecilia Vidal, Jessie Aucoin and Anna Fogerson Hindley. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from edX. The course is taught in Englishand is $149.00. Visit the course page at edX for detailed price information.

Overview
  • Educators, discover how museum objects and inquiry-based strategies can enhance your students’ learning across the curriculum! Enroll in this three-course series led by museum educators from across the Smithsonian Institution and gain new teaching tools you can immediately put to use in your classroom. Learn to use Harvard Project Zero thinking routines with museum objects to cultivate critical thinking, and practice curating digital resource collections using the Smithsonian Learning Lab.

    Teachers of all subjects and grades are welcome to register in these courses. The program content will be most readily applicable to humanities teachers.

Syllabus
  • Courses under this program:
    Course 1: Interdisciplinary Teaching with Museum Objects

    Educators from four Smithsonian museums will explore connections among their collections and model teaching strategies that participants can implement with their students, whether online or in the classroom.



    Course 2: The Smithsonian Summer Sessions: Interrogating the Stories We Tell

    Educators from six Smithsonian museums will dive deeply into the objects in their collections to interrogate the stories we know and tell our students. They will explore connections among their collections and model teaching strategies that participants can implement with their students.



    Course 3: The Smithsonian Summer Sessions: Inspiring Civic Engagement

    Discover how museum objects can help learners explore the challenges and opportunities of living in a democracy and inspire civic action.