AP Student Summer Project: For ALL 2017-2018 AP Students

Overview: Once you learn something new, what do you do with that information? This summer, the AP team
expects you to foster your own learning and growth through self-selected trips. Go exploring please. You
must visit either a museum (indoor or outdoor), a botanical garden, monument, historical site and create a
page for TimeOut TYWLS, a magazine publication created by the AP cohort of students to be distributed to the
TYWLS community for sustainable learning. Figure out where you want to go and become the expert on an
exhibit. Ask yourself, why is this important?
You must:
1. VISIT the site (and take some notes)
2. REFLECT on your visit and determine why it was worthy of your time and attention
3. PREPARE a short summary of the exhibit
4. PROVIDE location, price, and how to access the site (transportation options)
5. EXPLAIN why this exhibit is important and worthy of a visit. What did you learn?
6. CAPTURE the experience with appropriate imagery (this may be drawn or photographed)
7. CREATE a one page article for our first TimeOut TYWLS (you may use the image and link below as a
model). Be sure to INCLUDE suggestions for how to pursue a topic of interest. For example: If you
liked the G.O.A.T., Again exhibit at Socrates Sculpture Garden you may also enjoy.. because... This
will require you to visit more than one location and make connections throughout your learning.

Sample Image:

Time Out New York Kids website: https://www.timeout.com/new-york-kids

Suggested Sites for Summer Explorations: (you are not limited to these suggestions)
Socrates Sculpture Park http://socratessculpturepark.org/ (Queens)
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/ (Manhattan)
The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) https://www.moma.org/ (Manhattan)
New York Botanical Garden https://www.nybg.org/ (Bronx)
The Noguchi Museum http://www.noguchi.org/ (Queens)
National Museum of the American Indian http://nmai.si.edu/visit/newyork/ (Manhattan)
Brooklyn Museum https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/ (Brooklyn)
New York Aquarium https://nyaquarium.com/ (Brooklyn)
The National Museum of Mathematics http://momath.org/ (Manhattan)
The New York Hall of Science https://nysci.org/ (Queens)
The American Museum of Natural History http://www.amnh.org/ ( Manhattan)
The Intrepid-Sea, Air & Space Museum https://www.intrepidmuseum.org/ (Manhattan)
The Museum of the City of New York http://www.mcny.org/ (Manhattan)
The Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island https://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/ ( Manhattan/ New
Jersey)
The Highline http://www.thehighline.org/ (Manhattan)
The Brooklyn Historical Society http://www.brooklynhistory.org/ (Brooklyn)
The New York Library https://www.nypl.org/ (Manhattan)
Nuyorican Poetry Cafe http://www.nuyorican.org/ (Manhattan)
Summer Streets NYC http://www.nyc.gov/summerstreets/ (Manhattan)

***Reference other websites below for more opportunities to explore the city this summer;
the sites below have free options for the summer. This is not an exhaustive list. Research
and explore.