Information for Educators
School VisitsSchool visits to the museum are available year-round. Please check our exhibit and program schedule for activities of interest. To schedule a school visit to the museum please contact Debra Rowbottom, Visitor Services Director (218.254.7959 ext. 221/debra.rowbottom@ironworld.com)
PASSport to Education(pilot program)
Thanks to generous financial support from the Northland Foundation, Ironworld is able to offer free student passes to area schools. Initial funding is intended to bring 454 high school students to visit Requiem: By the Photographers in Vietnam and Indochina.
To participate in this pilot program please contact Debra Rowbottom, Visitor Services Director (218.254.7959 ext. 221/debra.rowbottom@ironworld.com).
The Role of Chaperones
In school visits to the museum, Ironworld understands the critical role that chaperones play in creating a meaningful and fun learning experience for students. Chaperones have three main tasks during the visit:
*To model proper museum behavior
* To encourage active learning and exploration
* To supervise students
While we wish to dispel the myth that museums are quiet places where you â??canâ??t touch,â?? respect for the work of the museum is essential. During a museum visit, students look to the adults in their group for cues on how to behave properly. When chaperones pay particular attention to how they treat museum staff, exhibits, and the physical space, student behavior reflects that model.
We invite students and chaperones to actively enjoy the space here at Ironworld, sometimes solemnly, sometimes loudly, as befits each exhibit.
Ironworld provides free passes to chaperones up to the recommended number per group.
One chaperone is recommended for every five students in grades K through 6; and one for every ten students in grades 7 through 12. Additional chaperones accompanying the student group will pay regular admission rates or group rates if the group is 20 or more students.
For example, a group of 12 2nd graders students would receive two free chaperone passes; a group of 30 high school students, 3 free chaperone passes. Groups are numbers are rounded to the nearest five or ten, depending on age bracket.