Peg Koetsch of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History talks to Burris students. Students in grades K-12 are learning how to museum, or the skills necessary to create an educational exhibit, from Peg Koetsch, a project coordinator from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. It enhances all the study skills students need. Instead of just going to a museum, we are showing students what they need to create a learning environment. Burris created a mammal exhibit in cooperation with the Smithsonian.
Students learn about telling stories and about the educational experience.
Burris is one of four schools nationally to participate in Mammals in the Schools, a national outreach program. It is intended to boost science education by giving schools access to museum collections and other resources. The exhibit, assembled on Monday and Tuesday, features a stuffed leopard sealed in a glass box on loan from the Smithsonian. One of the room s walls has been painted to resemble the plains of central Africa to make the leopard feel more at home. I can t say enough about how impressed I am with this school.