ANALYSIS MODEL WORKSHEET
Analysis Model Worksheet
Product______
Tangible (s):
Intangible Meanings (Tangible/Intangible Links):
Opportunities for Connections to Resource Meanings:
Opportunity—Tangible/Intangible link developed:
Emotional
Intellectual
Method used
Opportunity—Tangible/Intangible link developed:
Emotional
Intellectual
Method used
Opportunity—Tangible/Intangible link developed:
Emotional
Intellectual
Method used
Opportunity—Tangible/Intangible link developed:
Emotional
Intellectual
Method used
Idea or Ideas Cohesively Developed:
Idea
Idea
Suggestions for Improvement:
Opportunities for Intellectual and Emotional Connections
Opportunity = a favorable set of circumstances
Intellectual -- Which connection opportunities seem to provoke or inspire:
awareness, comprehension, discernment, discovery, enlightenment, insight, reasoning, mindfulness, perceptiveness, perspicacity, recognition, revelation, understanding of concepts, cause and effect, or relationships; unearthing, unfolding, wisdom…
Emotional -- Which connection opportunities seem to provoke, evoke or inspire:
admiration, aggravation, amazement, anger, anguish, apprehension, astonishment, aversion, awe, bewilderment, bliss, comfort, commiseration, compassion, concern, consternation, contentedness, contrition, curiosity, delight, despair, devotion, disappointment, disgust, dismay, distress, dread, elation, empathy, esteem, exasperation, exhilaration, fright, frustration, gladness, gratitude, grief, happiness, horror, joy, loyalty, nostalgia, passion, pity, pride, regret, relief, remorse, respect, reverence, sadness, satisfaction, sentiment, shame, sorrow, surprise, sympathy, tranquility, veneration, vexation, woe, wonder, worry, yearning…
Interpretive methods and techniques for developing tangible/intangible links into opportunities for intellectual and emotional connections to resource meanings:
Activity, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogy, analysis, anthropomorphism, characterizations, commentary, comparison, contrast, demonstration, description, examples, explanation, games, hooks, humor, hyperbole, illustrations, imagery, imagination, irony, living history, metaphor, multiple points of view, music, observation, paradox, parallel, personification, period clothing, photographs, poetry, props, questions, quotes, reenactments, repetition, rhyme, role playing, sensory experience, silence, simile, song, statistics, story, symbolism, testimony, theater, theme, tone, voice variation, word picture, word play…
For a more complete list of interpretive methods and techniques see “Handles – Helping Visitors to Grasp Resource Meanings, an Inventory of Interpretive Techniques” by Peggy Scherbaum – available at www.nps.gov/idp/interp/103/resources.htm
NPS¾Interpretive Development Program 10/03
Professional Standards for Learning and Development
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