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Here you will find a variety of downloadable resources for use in your classroom to help enrich your students’ visit to the Mercer and/or Fonthill Museums. These include suggestions for in-class warm-up and follow-up activities, vocabulary terms, bibliographies, and activity sheets that may be photocopied for use during your museum visit. Please be patient when downloading the teacher resource materials. The images included with these materials may cause some documents to take 10-30 seconds to download. If you are unable to download any of these materials from our website, please contact our Education Department at 215-345-0210 ext. 123 or e-mail mmeduc@mercermuseum.org and a packet of materials will be sent to you.
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| Materials for Mercer Museum Programs |
 Fire Engine-Central Court |
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| Materials for Fonthill Tours |
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| Educator Services |
You’re invited!
Pre-Field Trip Visits to the Mercer or Fonthill Museums
Educators who have reserved an on-site program or tour at Mercer or Fonthill, and especially those who may be unfamiliar with our museums, are invited to visit in advance of their scheduled field trip date. Please let us know when you would like to visit by contacting Mercer by phone at 215-345-0210 ext. 123 or e-mail at mmeduc@mercermuseum.org; contact Fonthill by phone at 215-348-9461 ext. 10 or e-mail at fhmail@fonthillmuseum.org. Or simply bring along your school ID, show it to the receptionist, and your admission is free (an advance reservation is strongly suggested if you are visiting Fonthill Museum).
Educators’ Open House
The Mercer and Fonthill Museums hold an annual Educator’s Open House in October. The site will vary. Educators are invited to attend to learn more about our on-site and outreach programs, each designed to enhance your curriculum and provide fun and engaging enrichment opportunities for your students.
The Open House is free and includes Museum admission. It is open to all public and private schoolteachers, as well as pre-school personnel and home school parents and coordinators. There will be displays and presentations about all of our programs, teacher packets, refreshments, a raffle, and giveaways. Come and join us!!
For more information about this event call 215-345-0210, ext. 123 or download our Educators Open House Flyer.
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| Workshops for Teachers |
Act 48 Workshops:
The Mercer Museum offers workshops for Act 48 credit on an occasional basis. Listings of our current workshops may be found at the Bucks County Intermediate Unit website, http://www.bucksiu.org. For more information contact 215-345-0210, ext. 125 or mmeduc@mercermuseum.org.
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