FIELD TRIPS
Here’s a nice article about how home educators employ museums in their programs.
Museum educators might see students from public schools a couple of times a year. Home-schoolers, they know by name.
“They become part of the fixtures here,” said Cyndi Bergquist-Zwadlo, director of gallery programs at the Science Museum. “You really get to know them. It’s nice because it is so individualized. [Public] schools stick to the group and have a generalized focus. Home-schoolers are on their own mission.”
When they visit the Science Museum, for example, they can choose among biology, wildlife, electricity and space. They might watch large-screen documentaries or witness the dissection of a cow’s eyeball.
That last bit reminded me of something. Lydia and the kids have been dissecting organs in science “class” for a several weeks. A while back, while digging in the refrigerator for something to eat, I opened up a plastic bag to find a cow eyeball staring back at me. Killed my appetite, for sure.