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Collections Challenge
In-Person School Program for Grades 6 to 12
The Q?rius Collections Zone includes 6,000 natural history objects, all accessible for student exploration in this staff-led program. Working in teams, students will receive a Collections Challenge Card, which assigns them to work in one of the Museum’s departments: Anthropology, Botany, Entomology, Invertebrate Zoology, Paleobiology, Mineral Sciences, or Vertebrate Zoology. Like scientists and collections managers at the Museum, students will follow protocols for handling valuable and sometimes delicate objects, and agree upon a strategy to curate and interpret a collection of their own while engaging in the scientific method. In-person programs take place at the museum in Washington, D.C.
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Registration is now open for programs from October 2, 2023, to February 2, 2024.
Register for a Collections Challenge program.