Outreach Programs
Let the World Awareness Children’s Museum bring our interactive, hands-on, outreach programs directly to your site! Designed for individual classrooms of up to 30 students, all programs are:
- Interactive and group-work based
- Feature hands-on learning with objects from the Museum’s collections
- Include an art project to take home
- Aligned with NYS Common Core Curriculum standards and modules
Call about pricing and availability!
Contact: Bethanie Muska
Phone: (518) 793-2773 x 303
Email: education@worldchildrensmuseum.org
Educational Outreach Series
Additional support of World Clothing: What Should I Wear? was made possible with funds from Stewart’s Holiday Match Program.
| Program Name | Length | Description | |
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| Celebrate Chinese New Year | 60 mins. | An introduction to the Chinese New Year Festival, students learn through hands-on stations with authentic clothing, objects, and a make-and-take project that brings this celebration to life. | |
| World Food: What Should I Eat? | 60 mins. | Explore the use and impact of corn, rice and wheat in world cultures. Hands-on stations include measurement, setting an international table, and a make-and-take project. | |
| World Clothing: What Should I Wear? | 60 mins. | A fun program that explores how people’s geographic location influences their choices in what to wear. Interactive stations include clothing to try on, a matching game with international dolls, and an art project. |
| Program Name | Length | Description | |
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| Cultural Aspects of Clothing | 75 mins. | Through interactive stations and hands-on activities, students examine how people’s cultural background, geography, and climate affect the clothing they wear. | |
| Chinese New Year Traditions | 75 mins. | Study the traditions and customs of Chinese New Year, learn some Mandarin phrases, and create an authentic make-and-take project. | |
| Discover Brazil |
75 mins. |
Through hand-on stations and activities, students explore three major regions of Brazil and how climate, geography and natural resources affect the way people live.
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| Flags and Countries | 75 mins. | Learn about flags, governments, and the reason we have a constitution. Students will create their own country, come up with a constitution, design a flag, and decide how they want their country to run. | |
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Mexican Celebration: Day of the Dead
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60 mins.
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Culture comes to life through hands-on stations, art and authentic objects as students learn about this significant Mexican celebration of ancestors. Adaptable for middle/high school groups, this program gives important context to the Day of the Dead and its role in Mexican culture and heritage. |
Welcome Home Series
The Welcome Home Series is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
| Program Name | Length | Description | |
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| Welcome Home, Japan | 75 mins. | Through the use of objects and arts, students will explore a traditional Japanese home and learn how it is similar and different from their own home. | |
| Welcome Home, Nigeria | 75 mins. | Students will explore the contrasts and common elements between homes in the cities and homes in the villages of Nigeria. | |
| Welcome Home, Bedouins (UAE) | 75 mins. | Children will learn, compare and discuss culturally-based gender roles in the home as part of traditional Bedouin society. |