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Top left: Aidan Brady stands in a twead coat in a room full of children before a digital board with a slide showing 'Why Do We Live Where We Live? How the rock cycle helped determine where and how Native Americans lived. Top right: Aidan Brady sits with students on the floor before a small pile of fossils. Bottom left: Aidan Brady stands before a brightly lit slide in a dark room with elementary school decorations on the wall. The slide shows a picture of hala fruit and explains that pineapple is not native to Hawaii and that Hala fruit is a more traditional part of the diet. Bottom right: Aidan Brady stands before an elementary school wall holding a fossil.

Photo #1 - Aidan Brady of the Sweetwater County Historical Museum spoke at three Rock Springs grade schools this week

 

(Sweetwater County, Wyo. - August 30, 2024)     Aidan Brady, the Sweetwater County Historical Museum’s Public Engagement Coordinator, had a busy week with presentations at three Rock Springs grade schools.

Brady spoke to over 130 third graders at North Park, Walnut, and Desert View Elementary Schools on a wide range of topics, including Sweetwater County’s prehistoric history, dinosaurs, fossils, ancient mammals, Lake Gosiute and trona, wood and adobe structures, and the influence of geography and landforms on where people chose to live in the past.

Museum Executive Director Dave Mead encouraged educators, parents, and parent-teacher groups interested in learning more about museum programs for students Grades K - 12 to contact Brady at (307) 872-6435 or via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..