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Our further advice to teachers (in addition to checking out our resources to plan a visit) is to become as familiar as possible with what students will be seeing and doing at the Museum before embarking on the trip with them. As teachers plan their visit, it is important to limit the scope of the trip to what will be manageable, meaningful and relevant. Students are naturally alaska adventure travel packages going to be excited and curious about what they experience at the Museum. The challenge is to structure the experience so that the opportunity to learn science is optimized too. This way, reading and writing at school serve to enhance a visit to the Museum to learn about science.
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