Instructional Process
Steps to Take, Key Questions & Downloads
Here are tools to help you through each step of the school museum process as described in
Learning on Display: Student-Created Museums that Build Understanding (2006, D’Acquisto).
- 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?
- What are the characteristics of high-quality exhibits?
- What criteria will we use for our exhibits?
- 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 research questions?
- What is our big idea? What is our story line for visitor learning?
- 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?
- What is our exhibit team’s plan for accomplishing our work?
- How are we working as a team?
- How will we install our exhibit?
- 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?
- What roles will we play on opening night?
- What activities will we have during our opening night?
- 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?