FOSSIL Kickoff Meeting
February 19, 2014
Outreach 2 (Field Trips) Breakout Session
Goals:
- Education
- Discovery
- Fun
What Kinds of Outreach?
- Field trips to spoil dumps
- Tours of museums (hands on)
- Traveling shows
- Bring fossils to those with disabilities
- Fossil Teaching Sets for purchase by clubs for use in schools
- Virtual Field Trips
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- need IT support, involvement of professionals and kids
- Video game format
- Gigapixel images with drone
Other Things to Consider:
- Time limits
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- 1 – 2 hours for kids alone, longer with parents and kids
- Programs for children – training backgrounds
- Disabilities
- Liability/Access
- Safer sites
- Fossil parks