Program ideas for younger audiences
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Visit http://www.manifoldgreatness.org/index.php/kids/ for a variety of resources, games, activity videos, and a family guide.
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Enlist a Teen Advisory Board to help plan and promote programs for young adults.
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Plan a program showing middle grades how to use primary sources in historical research.
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Engage young people in hands-on activities during their exhibition visit, such as bookmaking or printmaking activities.
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Develop a teen poetry slam. Teens write and perform poems that creatively express thoughts related to the history and impact of the King James Bible.
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Partner with a local children’s museum on programs about exhibition themes.
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Create a documentary shorts contest. Teach youth video production software and invite them to explore exhibition themes via images and sound.
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Sponsor an essay contest: “Why is the King James Bible still important today?”
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Work with young people to research everyday sayings that come from the Bible, and learn about the process of translating the Bible into other languages.