Children's Program
summer quest
June 25, 2013 : 10:00 A.M.
- July 05, 2013
: 3:00 P.M.
Cost: $2.00
Registration: Registration by phone only. Call our Summer Quest Registration Line: (518) 474-5843 Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visit us online at www.nysm.nysed.gov/summerquest or write to us at summerquest@mail.nysed.gov for more information.
Location: Museum Exhibit Galleries
Description:
Attention Summer Camp Directors!
This summer New York State Museum introduces SUMMER QUEST, an exciting new program designed especially for camps and organized groups, ages 7 and up!
Why not round out your camp’s program line-up with a series of enhanced programs at the New York State Museum? For only $2 per child, the Museum is offering two-hour educational programs with exciting hands-on activities within the fields of biology, astronomy, anthropology and history. Summer Quest programs are offered from June 25 through August 16, Tuesday through Friday, for either morning (10am-12pm) or afternoon (1pm-3pm) sessions.
SUMMER QUEST programs have been specifically designed for large camp and organized groups with a minimum size of 20 individuals. Each 2-hour session includes:
- Twenty-minute Museum orientation and educational overview
- Exploration of Museum exhibitions
- Uniquely designed hands-on collection- and exhibit-based activities in small groups
- Creative art projects
- Interactive dialogue with instructors
Session 1: Who Lives in the Looooonghouse?
Grandma’s longhouse is full of stories! This symbol of the Iroquois confederacy was much more than a place to live. Sit inside our reconstruction of a 500 year-old Iroquois longhouse, explore the artifacts, games and stories of the Iroquois, and discover everything the longhouse had to offer to the Native Americans living in New York State.
Program length: 2 hours | Number of participants: 20-80
Program Dates:
June 25, 26, 27, 28 & July 2, 3, 5* (Tuesday - Friday)
Session A: 10am-12pm | Session B: 1pm-3pm
*no programs available on July 4
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rain or shine ... it's reading time
June 26, 2013 : 10:30 A.M.
- September 25, 2013
: 11:15 A.M.
Location: Kids' Cove
Description:
Wednesdays: June 26; July 10 and 31; August 14 and 28; September 11 and 25
Read a story with Museum staff and visit a special exhibit to learn more about New York State. Meet outside of Kids Cove. Free program for Preschoolers.
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Music Event
music jam
June 20, 2013 : 12:00 P.M.
- August 29, 2013
: 2:00 P.M.
Location: Adirondack Hall
Description:
Every Thursday. NO MUSIC JAM JULY 4th. Take a lunch-time musical break or join the musicians as they play acoustic music inspired by the Celtic tradition of jigs, reels, waltzes, hornpipes, and marches, as well as occasional popular songs, jazz standards, and early music. All levels of skill on any acoustic instruments are welcome. Please bring several copies of sheet music for those who do not play by ear or for the tunes that are not commonly known. For more information, e-mail pkernan@mail.nysed.gov or call 518-486-2024.
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songs from the piano bench
June 26, 2013 : 12:00 P.M.
- September 25, 2013
: 2:00 P.M.
Location: Adirondack Hall
Description:
Last Wednesday of the month: June 26, July 31, August 28, September 25.
Listen in while enjoying your lunch or lend your voice as singers perform a variety of songs, from popular folk and rock-and-roll to Victorian parlor and Civil War, chosen from the more than 35,000 pieces of sheet music in the New York State Library collection. Music and words are provided and instrumentalists are welcome. For information, e-mail pkernan@mail.nysed.gov or call 518-486-2024.
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Children's Program
summer quest
July 09, 2013 : 10:00 A.M.
- July 19, 2013
: 3:00 P.M.
Cost: $2.00
Registration: Registration by phone only. Call our Summer Quest Registration Line: (518) 474-5843 Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visit us online at www.nysm.nysed.gov/summerquest or write to us at summerquest@mail.nysed.gov for more information.
Location: Museum Exhibit Galleries
Description:
Attention Summer Camp Directors!
This summer New York State Museum introduces SUMMER QUEST, an exciting new program designed especially for camps and organized groups, ages 7 and up!
Why not round out your camp’s program line-up with a series of enhanced programs at the New York State Museum? For only $2 per child, the Museum is offering two-hour educational programs with exciting hands-on activities within the fields of biology, astronomy, anthropology and history. Summer Quest programs are offered from June 25 through August 16, Tuesday through Friday, for either morning (10am-12pm) or afternoon (1pm-3pm) sessions.
SUMMER QUEST programs have been specifically designed for large camp and organized groups with a minimum size of 20 individuals. Each 2-hour session includes:
- Twenty-minute Museum orientation and educational overview
- Exploration of Museum exhibitions
- Uniquely designed hands-on collection- and exhibit-based activities in small groups
- Creative art projects
- Interactive dialogue with instructors
Session 2: Games and Heros of the Civil War Era
Discover the role New Yorkers played in the Civil War and imagine the trials and tribulations of its heroes. Engage in activities that soldiers and their families might have participated in, including creating paper-chain dolls and designing battle-scene dioramas. Campers will even play the soldiers’ game of Nine Man’s Morris and much more!
Program length: 2 hours | Number of participants: 20-50
Program Dates: July 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 & July 16, 17, 18, 19 (Tues - Fri)
Session A: 10am-12pm | Session B: 1pm-3pm
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summer quest
July 23, 2013 : 10:00 A.M.
- August 02, 2013
: 3:00 P.M.
Cost: $2.00
Registration: Registration by phone only. Call our Summer Quest Registration Line: (518) 474-5843 Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visit us online at www.nysm.nysed.gov/summerquest or write to us at summerquest@mail.nysed.gov for more information.
Location: Museum Exhibit Galleries
Description:
Attention Summer Camp Directors!
This summer New York State Museum introduces SUMMER QUEST, an exciting new program designed especially for camps and organized groups, ages 7 and up!
Why not round out your camp’s program line-up with a series of enhanced programs at the New York State Museum? For only $2 per child, the Museum is offering two-hour educational programs with exciting hands-on activities within the fields of biology, astronomy, anthropology and history. Summer Quest programs are offered from June 25 through August 16, Tuesday through Friday, for either morning (10am-12pm) or afternoon (1pm-3pm) sessions.
SUMMER QUEST programs have been specifically designed for large camp and organized groups with a minimum size of 20 individuals. Each 2-hour session includes:
- Twenty-minute Museum orientation and educational overview
- Exploration of Museum exhibitions
- Uniquely designed hands-on collection- and exhibit-based activities in small groups
- Creative art projects
- Interactive dialogue with instructors
Session 3: Whales, Mastodons & More Marvelous Mammals Explore the wonderful world of whales! Measure the Museum’s North Atlantic Right Whale skeleton and compare this to the largest animal that has ever lived on our planet. Touch teeth and baleen; and hear stories of these gentle giants. Explore and examine Mastodon remains and reconstruct this extinct wonder and its ice age habitat. You are the scientist uncovering the mysteries of unknown mammal remains in the laboratory!
Program length: 2 hours | Number of participants: 20-100 Program Dates:
July 23, 24, 25, 26 & July 29, 30, 31, Aug 1, 2 (Tuesday - Friday)
Session A: 10am-12pm | Session B: 1pm-3pm
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summer quest
August 06, 2013 : 10:00 A.M.
- August 16, 2013
: 3:00 P.M.
Cost: $2.00
Registration: Registration by phone only. Call our Summer Quest Registration Line: (518) 474-5843 Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visit us online at www.nysm.nysed.gov/summerquest or write to us at summerquest@mail.nysed.gov for more information.
Location: Museum Exhibit Galleries
Description:
Attention Summer Camp Directors!
This summer New York State Museum introduces SUMMER QUEST, an exciting new program designed especially for camps and organized groups, ages 7 and up!
Why not round out your camp’s program line-up with a series of enhanced programs at the New York State Museum? For only $2 per child, the Museum is offering two-hour educational programs with exciting hands-on activities within the fields of biology, astronomy, anthropology and history. Summer Quest programs are offered from June 25 through August 16, Tuesday through Friday, for either morning (10am-12pm) or afternoon (1pm-3pm) sessions.
SUMMER QUEST programs have been specifically designed for large camp and organized groups with a minimum size of 20 individuals. Each 2-hour session includes:
- Twenty-minute Museum orientation and educational overview
- Exploration of Museum exhibitions
- Uniquely designed hands-on collection- and exhibit-based activities in small groups
- Creative art projects
- Interactive dialogue with instructors
Session 4: Moon and Stars
Explore the night sky inside the Museum’s own planetarium and discover the moon and earth with hands on activities. Campers will make a scale model of the earth and moon and even recreate a meteor bombardment!
Program length: 2 hours | Number of participants: 20-90
Program Dates:
August 6, 7, 8, 9 & 13, 14, 15, 16 (Tuesday - Friday)
Session A: 10am-12pm | Session B: 1pm-3pm
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Excursion
environmental change at thacher park, 400 million years ago
June 29, 2013 : 10:00 A.M.
- 12:00 P.M.
Registration: Call 872-0800 for more information.
Location: John Boyd Thacher State Park
Description:
The layered rocks of Thacher Park preserve 30 million years of the ancient past. The fossils and rocks tell of ever-changing life and environments, from tidal flats and coral reefs to deeper water. Take a walk through time with Dr. Chuck Ver Straeten, NYS Museum geologist, and see how Thacher Park and eastern North America changed. Meet at Paint Mine parking lot and picnic area. The program is free but the parking fee is $6 per vehicle.
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oakwood cemetery tour – casualties of the civil war
June 29, 2013 : 9:00 A.M.
- 12:00 P.M.
Cost: $12.00
Registration: To register, please call Oakwood Cemetery at 1-800-556-6273.
Description:
Historian Michael Barrett guides this tour just a few days short of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. He will take us to graves of many veterans that were KIA and WIA from that battle. Participants meet at the site. Program designed for adults and teens.
Co-sponsored by the Hudson Mohawk Industrial Gateway.
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oakwood cemetery tour – veterans from the civil war
July 13, 2013 : 9:00 A.M.
- 12:00 P.M.
Cost: $12.00
Registration: To register, please call Oakwood Cemetery at 1-800-556-6273.
Description:
One of the most popular tours ever, walk with famed military historian, Michael Barrett and see if he can really introduce you to 9 ½ Civil War Generals (½…?!!) Learn of their private lives and the battles they fought. Participants meet at the site. Program designed for adults and teens.
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Family Program
family fun day
July 20, 2013 : 1:00 P.M.
- September 21, 2013
: 4:00 P.M.
Location: Museum Exhibit Galleries
Description:
3rd Saturday of every month
The Museum offers fun for everyone with family games, make and take crafts, and educational opportunities based on each month's theme.
Saturday, July 20: This Summer Let Reading Take You to Many Neat Places!
Saturday, August 17: Beneath the City – Our Dutch Heritage Saturday, September 21: Raptor Rapture
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trash to treasure
August 04, 2013 : 1:00 P.M.
- 3:00 P.M.
Location: Adirondack Hall
Description:
Sunday: August 4
Location: Classrooms 2 & 3
Trash to Treasure features an art project using manufacturing mistakes and materials destined for the landfill. Join Museum art instructor Peggy Steinbach for an interesting video and an Earth-friendly afternoon.
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Teacher Workshop
national endowment for the humanities landmarks of american history: heaven on earth: shakers, religious revival, and social reform in america
July 07, 2013 : 9:00 A.M.
- July 20, 2013
: 5:00 P.M.
Description:
July 7-13 OR July 14-20 (Sunday through Saturday)
This week-long workshop focuses on the nineteenth-century Shaker movement and the communitarian society it produced. A wide range of topics are covered, including health, diet, celibacy, spirituality, gender roles, education, children and material culture. The workshop meets Common Core State Standards and includes several visits to Shaker sites throughout the region.
To learn more about these workshops or to register, visit www.nysm.nysed.gov/education/teacher/workshops.html
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the dh cadwell earth science workshop
July 08, 2013 : 8:00 A.M.
- July 10, 2013
: 5:30 P.M.
Cost: $200.00
Description:
This three-day workshop (24 contact hours), designed by geologists at the State Museum, helps Earth Science teachers improve student test scores by increasing their familiarity with the geologic environment and geologic history of New York State.
To learn more about these workshops or to register, visit www.nysm.nysed.gov/education/teacher/workshops.html.
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archaeology for the classroom!
July 23, 2013 : 9:00 A.M.
- July 24, 2013
: 5:00 P.M.
Cost: $30.00
Location: Huxley Theater
Description:
This two-day workshop (16 contact hours) is designed for social studies teachers in grades 2-8. Teachers actively participate in the process of archaeology and learn about regional history through classroom lectures, fieldwork, and analysis of material objects in Museum collection areas. This approach addresses the Common Core State Standards.
To learn more about these workshops or to register, visit www.nysm.nysed.gov/education/teacher/workshops.html.
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