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We have a partnership with HeadStart and get visited by those preschoolers every Wednesday morning from November-March. We also offer regular "self guided" trips on Friday mornings, but the last Friday of the month is reserved for the younger set. It seems to work out pretty well.


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Subject: Separate days for visits by young children


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	A problem we are facing is large numbers of groups of 
children that vary in age and therefore size. When we are crowded the 
younger children seem to suffer. Younger children sometimes get 
squeezed physically and psychologically during these visits despite 
being chaperoned (the older children tend not to be chaperoned 
closely, if at all).

	Does your institution set aside days only for visits by 
groups of younger children?  How many days a week? days a month? How 
have schools, organizations reacted to this? Positively, negatively? 
What is the age distribution of children that you try and have visit 
separately?

	Would you pass this on to colleagues at your institution that 
deal with this issue?

Thanks.

Martin
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Martin Weiss, Ph.D
Vice President, Science
New York Hall of Science
47-01 111 th Street
Corona, New York 11368
718 699 0005 x 356

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