Pack your bags for an educational adventure at Shelburne Museum!
Shelburne Museum proudly announces PASSPORT TO LEARNING for schools and home-schooled families!
Passport to Learning is an exciting series of twelve interactive workshops for students in grades K-8 that meet educational standards from Vermont’s Framework of Standards and Grade Expectations and introduce students to concepts and themes in art, language arts, math, science, and social studies through a facilitated exploration of Shelburne Museum.
- We offer Passport to Learning and May 17—June 18, 2010 and September 13 - October 15, 2010.
- We can accommodate up to 200 students per day.
- Group arrivals and lunch times are staggered to aid traffic flow through the workshops. Arrival times are 8:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., and 11:30 a.m. Lunch times are 11 a.m., 11:30 a.m., noon, and 12:30 p.m. respectively.
- Workshops run concurrently from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The last workshop session of the day begins at 1:30 p.m.
- All workshops begin promptly on the half hour.
- Each workshop closes for a 30-minute break during the day.
- Workshops run on a drop-in, first-come, first-served basis.
- Workshops can accommodate between 15 and 20 students at a time. We encourage classrooms to divide into small groups of 4 to 6 students each, with at least one chaperone per group.
- You may choose to complete as many workshops as you would like. Most groups complete 3 to 5 workshops in a single visit.
- Every student receivea a passport upon arrival. At the completion of a workshop each student receives a stamp in his or her passport.
- Every student receives a pass to return to the Museum for free with one paid adult.
COST
Passport to Learning costs $5 per student and chaperone. School staff or one parent per home-schooled family are admitted free.
REGISTRATION
To register your classroom or your family for Passport to Learning, please contact Hannah Weisman, academic programs coordinator, at hweisman@shelburnemuseum.org or (802) 985-3346 x3395.
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