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Northwest High School Museum Professional Development
August 1st, 2025 8:00-3:00 pm
Join Mr. Cherry at Northwest High School to learn how to generate student excitement, engagement, and buy-in with museum exhibit projects. Tour the NW Science Museum, learn how to replicate its success in your classroom, and jumpstart your own classroom fossil collection by accompanying Mr. Cherry to Trammel Fossil Park.
This professional development opportunity will guide you through how Mr. Cherry created the Northwest Science Museum and how to design projects for your own classes. While the Northwest HS project focused on Science exhibits, the museum framework could be applied to any curriculum area. All subject areas and grade levels are encouraged to attend.
Following the morning session at Northwest High School, teachers who would like to collect fossils for their own projects can accompany Mr. Cherry to the Trammel Fossil Park in Sharonville, Ohio. This part of the session will cater best to earth and life sciences, but all are welcome!
Itinerary August 1st, 2025
8:00 am Arrive at Northwest High School
8-9am Introductions and Museum Tour
9-9:30 am History and Mission of the Northwest Science Museum
9:30-10 am What makes a good exhibit? Exhibit types and interpretive tools
10-11 am Planning your own Museum Exhibit Project
11-12 Using google suite to keep organized and catalog specimens
12-1 pm Break for lunch (on your own)
1-3 pm Meet at Trammel Fossil Park for fossil collecting and identification
Materials needed: None! However, a computer is recommended. (Sturdy shoes if going fossil hunting is also advised.)
Materials you’ll receive:
Digital access to lesson plans and project ideas from the NWHS Science museum
Digital templates and detailed instructions to create your own inventory database for cataloging samples
Outlines for your own museum exhibit project
Free fossils from the collection of Mr. Cherry & Trammel Fossil Park (PM session only)
Certificate of Participation
NWLSD faculty will earn 6 hours of CEUs for attending the full day, and 4 hours for the morning session.
Sign up by July 25th by completing this google form.
Northwest High School
10761 Pippin Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45231
Trammel Fossil Park
11935 Tramway Dr, Sharonville, OH 45241
Questions about this professional development opportunity or the museum project in general can be directed to Mr. Cherry at dcherry@nwlsd.org.
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