K-12 Educational Outreach Survey

Thank you very much for your interest in participating in AIC’s K-12 educational outreach efforts! The response from the membership thus far has been incredibly encouraging and it is truly exciting to hear about all the excellent projects conservators have initiated. The following is a brief survey about how you would best like to participate in AIC’s efforts in this direction. Currently we are compiling information for a resources web page on the AIC site which would offer four major categories of information for preservation colleagues and educators:

A. Contact information for individuals willing to participate in educational projects such as visiting schools, giving lab tours, offering workshops or classes.
B. A list of websites with lesson plans on chemistry, conservation, and art history that can be used for K-12 programming to advance knowledge of preservation.
C. Resources developed by AIC members for educational outreach: workshop outlines, science lab project ideas, demonstration ideas, art projects, lectures, curricula, etc.
D. Information on how conservators can help with outreach efforts to schools by working with professional organizations that develop K-12 curricula in the arts and sciences.

The following questions aim to ascertain how you might assist in these efforts. Please complete as many or as few sections as desired.

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* 1. Please provide your contact information (this will not be made available to the public without your consent):

Name: *

Company:

Address:

Address 2:

City/Town: *

State: *

ZIP:

Country:

Email Address: *

Phone Number: *

A. Contact List
The contact list will not put your personal information out on the website; instead there will be a centralized email address, k-12@conservation-us.org, to which all queries will be directed, and a working group member will then respond with the appropriate names and contact information. You can always update your preferences at a later time by contacting the committee using this address.

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* 2. Please indicate your preference(s):

Please include me in the contact list (please fill out question #3)

Do not include me in the contact list, but please keep me informed about this project (skip question #3)

Do not include me in the contact list, and do not contact me about this project (skip question #3)

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* 3. YES, I would like to be on the contact list of conservators. I would be willing to (check all that apply):

Give tours of my lab/studio

Visit a classroom at a local school and talk about what I do

Conduct a workshop or lecture series (with pre-prepared content) for students

Conduct a workshop or lecture series (with pre-prepared content) for teachers

Develop a workshop or lecture series on specific topics for students

Develop a workshop or lecture series on specific topics for teachers

Work one-on-one with a high school student doing a study project

Work one-on-one with a teacher to develop content for a class project

Other Idea (please specify)

B. Links and web resources
Please share with us some of your favorite online resources about conservation or conservation education. These can include blogs, online exhibits, science resources that you find useful, websites about conservation and preservation projects going on around the country and around the world, or anything else you know of that you think teachers and students would find helpful in understanding our wide-ranging and complex field. If you would rather email us your suggestions, please feel free to send them to k-12@conservation-us.org at any time.

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* 4. Please provide links to resources below:

http://

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* 5. Other suggestions for content.

C. Content
Many of you have already generously agreed to share materials you have used or developed, such as workshop materials, presentations, science lab activity ideas, etc. We are interested in getting these materials into the hands of teachers and museum educators who would be able to download them for use in their classrooms to introduce students to the concepts and issues of our field. Materials will either be placed directly on the AIC website, or a link will be provided if they are already web accessible (i.e. your blog, your webpage, Picasa, SlideShare, etc.).

If you do not currently have content to share, but may be interested in doing so at a later date, you may send it to us at any time.

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* 6. I am willing to share the following content that I have developed:

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* 7. I can provide the content in the following format(s):

Digital format files

Hard copies

Images--digital

Images--hard copy

Video

I can host this on my own site/blog/page/etc.

I'm sending it to you to deal with!

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* 8. If desired, please use the space below to describe your materials, or to provide any other suggestions for this initiative:

THANK YOU for your time and interest in working with AIC's K-12 Educational Working Group. Any other thoughts and suggestions are welcomed. Please contact us with any questions at k-12@conservation-us.org