MINI-MUSEUMS SET TO VISIT LOCAL SCHOOLS.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER -- Elementary school elementary school: see school. teachers can ask for a ``mini-museum'' from the Lancaster Museum Art Gallery to visit their classrooms to explain about Egyptian mummies, dinosaurs, Antelope Valley pioneers and other topics. The visits are made possible by a $9,000 grant from the Boeing Co., which will pay for museum staffers to visit schools. Each presentation is about one hour and includes artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. , antiques, artwork and historical replicas, as well as hands-on activities for the children. The presentations are made by museum education specialist Jessica Derrick, a museum assistant who holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and communications from California State University, Bakersfield As of fall 2002, some 7,700 undergraduate and graduate students attended CSUB, at either the main campus in Bakersfield or the satellite campus, Antelope Valley Center in Lancaster, California of Los Angeles County. , and an associate's degree in art. The presentations are available to private and homeschool home·school or home-school v. home·schooled, home·school·ing, home·schools v.tr. To instruct (a pupil, for example) in an educational program outside of established schools, especially in the home. classes as well as public schools, officials said. Topics include Antelope Valley pioneers, Antelope Valley Native Americans and missions, Antelope Valley miners, ancient Egyptian mummification mummification /mum·mi·fi·ca·tion/ (mum?i-fi-ka´shun) the shriveling up of a tissue, as in dry gangrene, or of a dead, retained fetus. mum·mi·fi·ca·tion n. , vaqueros and cowboys, dinosaurs and Ice Age mammals, and archaeology, geology and geography. To make an appointment call (661) 723-6250. |
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