"Small Town, Big Museum": A conversation with science educator Kady Yeomans

The Classroom Beyond: Informal Education Podcast

For our inagural podcast, I talk with science educator Kady Yeomans of the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. The small city is the museum hotspot of rural Georgia, and the 100,000-foot Tellus is their crown jewel. Kady and I talk about techniques for working a museum floor and also, what happens when controversial topics come up, like evolution and cosmology? Connections... Kady relates a story about how she got interested in archaeology in the first place by finding an ancient pot in Belize. So many of us who work in education, science, music, or sports can trace our origins to some early-life experience! In the area of the environment, a scientist at the University of Colorado named Louise Chawla has made "early experiences with nature" a big part of her research, so I've blogged about it here.