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Join Eden Cho of the National Museum of American History to explore how you can incorporate museum objects and art skills to engage your students civically! She’ll share techniques honed from the museum's annual National Youth Summit, a program that brings together secondary students to participate in a national conversation about important events in America’s past that have relevance to the nation’s present and future. You’ll leave with resources and strategies to incorporate museum objects in your classroom, create zines, and encourage your students to engage in civic action.
Session Collection
Taking Civic Action with Zines: https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/taking-civic-action-with-zines-cultivating-learning/bHmoTyfprPvRsSUz
00:00 Introduction
06:22 Session Agenda and Objectives
7:48 How Do People Participate in Civic Action?
9:13 Invitation: Personal Objects
11:14 Civic Engagement: See, Think, Wonder with Objects
16:17 Resources for Civic Action: National Youth Summit
20:15 Resources for Civic Action: Zine-making
26:42 Debrief and Reflection
34:28 Additional Resources
37:10 Session Learning Lab Collection
39:25 Q&A
42:22 Conclusion
This interactive webinar, originally recorded on Zoom, is part of “Cultivating Learning,” a professional development webinar series focusing on techniques to use digital museum resources for learning. Check out “Cultivating Learning” and other Smithsonian Learning Lab webinars: https://learninglab.si.edu/about/events
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Collage courtesy of the National Museum of American History
Join Eden Cho of the National Museum of American History to explore how you can incorporate museum objects and art skills to engage your students civically! She’ll share techniques honed from the museum's annual National Youth Summit, a program that brings together secondary students to participate in a national conversation about important events in America’s past that have relevance to the nation’s present and future. You’ll leave with resources and strategies to incorporate museum objects in your classroom, create zines, and encourage your students to engage in civic action.
Session Collection
Taking Civic Action with Zines: https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/taking-civic-action-with-zines-cultivating-learning/bHmoTyfprPvRsSUz
00:00 Introduction
06:22 Session Agenda and Objectives
7:48 How Do People Participate in Civic Action?
9:13 Invitation: Personal Objects
11:14 Civic Engagement: See, Think, Wonder with Objects
16:17 Resources for Civic Action: National Youth Summit
20:15 Resources for Civic Action: Zine-making
26:42 Debrief and Reflection
34:28 Additional Resources
37:10 Session Learning Lab Collection
39:25 Q&A
42:22 Conclusion
This interactive webinar, originally recorded on Zoom, is part of “Cultivating Learning,” a professional development webinar series focusing on techniques to use digital museum resources for learning. Check out “Cultivating Learning” and other Smithsonian Learning Lab webinars: https://learninglab.si.edu/about/events
Thumbnail Image
Collage courtesy of the National Museum of American History
