Battle Mountain, Nevada, Annual 6th Grader Presentation by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Digging Deeper: Pushing Ourselves to Engage the Public in Our Shared Heritage through Outreach and Education" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Every spring, the Battle Mountain BLM, Mount Lewis Field Office, puts on a presentation for 6th graders from the local elementary school. The presentations are conducted at the Mill Creek Campground, approximately 30 minutes south of Battle Mountain. It is an all-day event, and the more departments we have doing presentations, the smaller the groups of kids. With between five and nine departments conducting presentations, group sizes generally range from four to eight kids. Departments typically include Fire, Wildlife, Wild Horse and Burro, Cultural, Range, and whomever else we can muster. Recently the USGS has been joining us, conducting a presentation on wilderness emergency medical treatment. The majority of the kids really look forward to it. One has to say “the majority,” as, well, kids will be kids. The 2020 presentation was canceled due to COVID concerns. It is so popular that the 2022 8th graders, the class that had missed it in 2020, requested that the BLM conduct the presentations for them in school.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Digging Deeper: Pushing Ourselves to Engage the Public in Our Shared Heritage through Outreach and Education   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 37603.0