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I'm not sure if the Instructables space at the Children's Museum of Houston
was staffed...might be worth a look. http://www.cmhouston.org/mind/
and
http://www.instructables.com/id/Made-in-Your-Mind-Instructables-The-Childrens-/
The way it was set up, it could have been unstaffed. I'm not sure if there
were a lot of open-ended activities that used saws and other similar
equipment, or if the emphasis was more on completing an Instructable.
-Wendy
Wendy Sparks
Director of Education
A.C. Gilbert's Discovery Village
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Charlie Carlson <[log in to unmask]
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> It all depends. Doing it completely unstaffed is a tall order. Where to
> start. Kindergarten shop where we used hand saws, hammers, nails, hand
> powered drills, rulers, compasses, and pliers under marginal supervision
> comes about as close as I can imagine.
> An even in that situation, there was minimal oversight and supervision.
> CSC had a series of check out dissection tools that were utilized in a
> squid dissection, for example, but that had manned support. Phenomena had
> folks doing paper chromatography. Everything get to be case by case with
> lots of variables. A whole curriculum of activities would need to be
> developed and tested, but still there would be no guarantees.
>
> I haven't seen or heard of anyone attempting to run an unstaffed make.
> Human interactions between mentor and mentor, or pupil and teacher, or
> visitor and explainer are keys to the experience.
>
> C
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> On Dec 24, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Paul Orselli <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Hi Charlie,
> >
> > To be more specific --- spaces within museum where visitors make things
> using tools and materials (which in many cases they can take home.)
> Pros/Cons of Staffed/Unstaffed?
> >
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