| Steps to Take |
Key Questions |
| Introduce the museum project |
- What is our job?
- What is a museum?
- How will we work as a team?
- What do visitors know and wonder about our museum topic?
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| Visit a professional museum |
- What are the characteristics of high-quality
exhibits?
- What criteria will we use for our exhibits?
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| Conduct Research |
- What are our research questions?
- Where will we locate information?
- How will we summarize information as we take
notes?
- How will we analyze information to answer our
research questions?
- How will we synthesize information to answer
our focus question?
- What is our big idea?
- What is our story line for visitor learning?
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| Design the exhibits |
- What will we use to tell our story?
- How do we get visitors to experience our story?
- What will our completed exhibit look like?
- Will our exhibit work?
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| Write for a museum audience |
- Does the content and order of our exhibit
labels help visitors understand our big idea?
- Is our writing relevant and useful to the
visitor?
- Is the tone of our writing clear and consistent?
- Does the visual quality, organization, and
structure of our text make it easy to read?
- Is the text in our exhibit is grammatically correct?
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| Construct the exhibition |
- What is our exhibit team’s plan for accomplishing our work?
- How are we working as a team?
- How will we install our exhibit?
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| Learn the full exhibition |
- How can the completed exhibit be used as a teaching tool?
- How can we engage visitors with our exhibit?
- When will we take school groups on tours of our museum?
- How will we learn about the other exhibits in our museum?
- What did we learn?
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| Open the museum to the public |
- What roles will we play on opening night?
- What activities will we have during our opening night event?
- How will we advertise our event?
- What is our schedule for opening night?
- How will we dismantle our museum?
- How will we celebrate our accomplishments?
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