STEAM @ the Museum
Docent Guide updated standards 7.20.16
Tour Assessment Please read before and after the tour. Fill our and turn in to Betsy.
Lead Docent Duties
Tour Training Video Part 1 (includes solar print project and Theatre presentation)
STEAM booklet
Routes new 3.12.15
Benefits of STEM vs STEAM article
Research by University of Florida on the benefits of STEAM
Our Education System is outdated
TIPS and UPDATES - Thaumotrope will be distributed in the theater.
Be sure to put PENCILS in the bag for 1 point perspective.
After the drawing exercise, have the teacher collect the booklets to hold for the remainder of the tour.
Glass is now in the Kinau Hallway rather than gallery 14 (shunga)
Required Works of Art
Gallery 5 & Central Courtyard (Math & Art / 1-pt Perspective)
Leonardo Coccorante, Harbor with Roman Ruins
Gallery 6, 10, 7 (Science & Art / Color and Paint)
Henri-Edmund Cross, Landscape (Gallery 6)
Claude Monet, Water Lilies (Gallery 6)
Roy Lichtenstein, Woman Contemplating a Yellow Cup (1923 – 1997) (Gallery 10)
Robert Delaunay, Rainbow (Gallery 7)
Gallery 17/ Kinau Courtyard (Science & Technology / Mud and Clay)
*Let the children select pieces that interest them
Gallery 13 (Science, Math, Technology and Art / Kinetic Art and simple machines)
Calders Red Boomerang
George Rickey Two Rectangles Eccentric (1977) (Tell them to find our other kinetic sculpture as they leave the building)
Central Courtyard (Math & Art / Biggest work of art)
Emile-Antoine Bourdelle, Penelope
Additional Tour Information
Archimedes Principle you tube video TED-ED
Be sure and tell the story of Archimedes and the word Eureka!
Benham and black and white top
Benham's Disk explanation