8th grade museum needs

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2025

Gold Rush

• Crates
• Water tub
• Rocks
• Sand
• Sifting pans
• Light bulbs
• Cave material
• Foam
• Spray paint
• Carving tools (Etc)
• Wood
• Curtains
• Hats for the kids

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Figure out what to order for plug for water table

Clean water table

Experiment with sand/dirt/gold for panning

Put walls together

Base coat paint foam

Marble paint walls

Redirect light away from exhibit

Try on overalls

Tourism

• Atl airport signs arrival/departure-print on paper
• Control tower - ? To build?
• Hang airplanes from ceiling
• Signs for Savannah, See Rock City sign on back of airplane
• Rock city mountain backdrop-print
• Runway on the floor - put it together
• Helen tubing hands on-build ? What do we need to buy for this?
• Little people figurines that can be used for ring toss-buy
• Pictures of helen architects-print

Pro Sports

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• Prints of stadiums or stadium interior ?
• Jerseys of Hawks, Falcons, Braves, Atl United
• Foam soccer, baseball, football, basketball
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Hang pictures on wall - make sure they are evenly spaced and level with eachother

Hang flags

Find and organize balls for exhibit

Is there anything else we can add to your exhibit? Maybe go ask PE teachers if we can borrow more footballs, basketballs to make it look visually appealing

Natural Wonders

• Make Mountains
• Waterfall fabric - make waterfalls
• Make rocks
• Spray paint rocks
• Swamp/water for floor
• Rock for Stone mtn - made out of foam
• Rock for canyon - made out of foam
• boat?

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FDR in Ga

• Gainesville square ?
• Or was your idea the little white house in Ga? And fireside chats?
• Columns - borrowed
• Have a desk with radios on it for fireside chats

What do you want your background wall to look like around the TV? Print signs or pictures of him?

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Segregation

• Lunch counters and stools
• Figure out the tables for the benches
• Take casters off one bench?
• MAke White and black signs
• MAke Menu for food items
• Diner costumes- try them on
• Fake food
• Vr sets
• Squiggle neon rope LED lights - test them to see if they work. Make the shape you would like. Hang and plug in
• Fake cooking tools
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Great Depression

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• Pull pipe and drape from museum storage area
• Clotheslines with quilts
• Crates
• Suitcases
• Fake food
• Fake money
• Bins

Atlanta Olympics

• Olympics rings made out of foam (like for a wreath) or hula hoops - spray paint them
• 3 level boxes for “podium” for medals
• Medals - cheap in bulk - find something to put them in.
• Pictures of athletes?
• Maybe a fake “torch”
• fake grass/turf
• black or blue backdrop?

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Civil War

• Sherman's march to the sea
• MAke windows, door, shutters with tape and paper
• Find ferns to put on “porch”
• Put out civil war relics
• Hang lights and focus on wall
• Paint of make or buy a picture wall size of a plantation
• Have it have any type of civil war memorabilia we can find to borrow
• Dress in union vs confederate uniforms
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Impact of MLK

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• Speech on Tv of I have a dream speech
• Ebenezer church sign - make it
• Podium
• Large print of washington monument - hang it
• Cardboard cutout of MLK JR
• Table for puzzle(hands on) - make the quote puzzle
• Do you want chairs for people to sit on? Or carpet squares on the floor?

Nancy Hart

• Use the museum classroom for exhibit
• Platform for performance space
• Back wall of log house
• Period costumes
• Monologues about women and time period of revolutionary war
• Ladles, kitchen type items to hang on wall
• Butter churn
• Rustic table
• Flour bowls
• Paint platform black
• Hang curtain rod
• Find fabric for curtain in storage room
• Decorate with antiques on wall

Geography

• Look at the maps we already have for topography
• Maps of ga - create it - see Ms. Saldierna
• Large map of Ga with agricultural products for regions
• foamcore/paint mountains, etc
• Create your hands on activity

Movies in Ga

• Stanchions
• Put up tent
• Curtains?
• Red carpet
• Fabric
• Screen on tv showing movie clips?
• Popcorn containers
• Film strip decor
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Gullah Geechee

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• Two trees in wall
• Make trees on walls
• Hang Spanish moss
• Hang Burlap
• Sweet grass baskets
• Face jug pottery
• Crates - make them or buy them
• Overalls and tan shirts
• Cat tails? Or palm fronds

Native vs Invasive

• Tree with live side and dead side
• Paper for trunks
• Leaves for live side
• Pictures of native and invasive plants and animals
• Hands on ?

Lake Lanier

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• Large map of the lake
• Pictures of boating, leisure activities
• water Table (building) ?
• Let’s Go Fishin’ game
• mosslike carpet
• museum table for storing hands-on

Music in Ga

• Light bulb fairy lights - hang them
• Park benches
• Grass on floor
• Brick background - finish putting it on wall
• Square table set up
• Old microphone in the middle
• Ear phones - find them
• Sound tracks to listen to
• Pictures of musicians

Coca Cola

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• Backdrop for coke - decorate walls
• Coke paraphernalia
• Soda water and syrup - practice with it to see if it works
• Lunch counter
• Soda jerk costumes
• Polar bear costume - try it on
• Soda stream
• Soda Stream
• Soda syrup