Make one copy for each chaperone and send home in advance of trip
Notes for Chaperones
Thank you for agreeing to be a chaperone for When you arrive, a museum staff person will greet
our class field trip to the Burke Museum on your group, give you general information about coat
and lunch storage, drinking fountain and restroom
(date)_______________________________ facilities, and direct you to the exhibit you are
scheduled to visit.
Please meet us at (location) You can help us by:
Keeping your group together. Help maintain
____________________________________ smooth “traffic flow” through the exhibit.
Reminding them about appropriate museum
Our class is visiting the __________________ exhibit. behavior. (Speak quietly, don’t run, touch only
items designed to be touched by visitors, etc.)
The members of your group are:
Helping them search for answers to related
____________________________________ questions. (e.g. reading the exhibit labels or
asking museum staff)
____________________________________
Turning off cell phones during the program.
____________________________________
Keeping track of your group until departure.
____________________________________ There may be many other people in the museum,
so it is important that your students stay with your
____________________________________ group. If students have time to visit the museum
store, please observe our request that there be
____________________________________ no more than five students, with an adult
chaperone, in the store at any time. Chaperones
____________________________________ are responsible for overseeing the student
groups while they visit the store.
____________________________________
We appreciate your help making this a successful
learning experience. If you have questions about any
arrangements, please feel free to call the museum at
206-543-5591.
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Some Background on the Museum & the Exhibits
NOTE: You are not expected to be an exhibit expert. The begin to understand the complex language of the
following information is for your interest only. Hawaiian hula.
The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture is Life and Times of Washington State is our natural
located on the University of Washington campus. It is history exhibit. This exhibit takes the visitor through the
dedicated to creating a better understanding of the world geologic history of Washington State. Visit the Paleozoic
and our place in it. The museum is responsible for era when Washington State was submerged under sea;
Washington State collections of natural history and move through the Mesozoic era - “Dinosaur Times;” walk
cultural heritage, and for sharing the knowledge that through our giant glowing volcano and see how
makes them meaningful. The Burke welcomes a broad volcanism shaped our State; and visit the “Ice-age” to
and diverse audience and provides a community learn about glaciation. Complete your tour in our “Present
gathering place that nurtures life-long learning and Times” and view the current biodiversity of Washington
encourages respect, responsibility, and reflection. State.
The Burke’s public displays include two long-term exhibits Temporary Exhibits at the Burke in 09-10
and one temporary exhibits gallery.
A-Y-P: Indigenous Voices Reply
Pacific Voices is our cultural history exhibit. This May 30 - November 29, 2009
interpretive exhibit demonstrates how language and
stories, teachers and elders, and ceremonies are central Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey
to the cultural perpetuity of the peoples of the Pacific and October 3 - November 29, 2009
Northwest Coast. Compare and contrast the interesting
ways people communicate and celebrate, thereby
creating “living culture.” View a Northwest Coast potlatch Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway
and first Salmon ceremony; admire the whaling December 19, 2009 - May 31, 2010
technology of the Arctic Inupiaq; learn the importance of
Japanese Obon and Vietnamese ancestor worship; and For more information on current and upcoming
. exhibits visit www.burkemuseum.org.