We were so excited to host some fabulous museum educators this week! As part of the Florida Museum, we invited the Museum’s education team to Pine Island for a workshop for our volunteers. Alberto, Janelle and Amy worked with current school programs volunteers and other Randell Research Center volunteers interested in hearing about our education team’s expertise on informal education.
The volunteer enrichment workshop brought us all together to learn tools and techniques to make our educational events hands-on, intriguing and fun for our local kiddos! The Museum education team shared with us the programs they developed, Early Explorers (early childhood) and Museum in the Parks (elementary), and explored how we can adapt these ideas into our trail and school programing efforts.
This will complement our more formal Title One 4th grade program and help us to plan new and creative ways to reach and serve families local to Pine Island and nearby communities with more hands-on and structured childhood/family education events.
This was also a great opportunity for our volunteers and educators to share new ideas on how to bring to life the cultural heritage and ecological wealth of our part of Florida. We are looking forward to developing our skills further to share with our community.
Before they returned to Gainesville, our guests were treated to a tour of the Calusa Heritage Trail by our docent, Kevin! Always an informative and enthusiastic guide, Kevin shared some of the unique and fascinating history of the Calusa and their time in southwest Florida.
Before they returned to Gainesville, our guests were treated to a tour of the Calusa Heritage Trail by our docent, Kevin! Always an informative and enthusiastic guide, Kevin shared some of the unique and fascinating history of the Calusa and their time in southwest Florida.
