At this moment there are 100
At this moment there are 100’s of museums and the like that have created virtual tours of there facilities. After spending some time looking into this tool I realize that the world is at our fingertips.
This will indeed spark great interest in students of all levels. The limits of normal field trips are now forgotten. There can be nothing in between the students and learning. Money and time can now be forgotten as excuses for not going. Of course a power failure could damper the virtual tour!
An example of an excellent tour is the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Online exhibits include AIDS: The War Within; Apollo 8 Command Module; the Big Dig Construction Site; the Coal Mine; Hatching Chicks; Giant Heart; and Animated Industrial Gears. A nice aspect of the virtual museum is the inclusion of exhibits that will appeal to students in grades 1 to 4 as well as exhibits more suitable for older students.
Activity: Invite students to explore the Coal Mine exhibit and then ask them to write a paragraph explaining whether they would like to work in a coal mine, and why or why not. A more complex activity for students in grade 5 o above involves visiting a local business or industry and photographing its operations. Students can then use the photographs as a basis of their own exhibit on the business or industry.
Optional Activity: Have students visit the The Chick Hatchery exhibit and write captions for the online photographs of a chick's birth.
Reference website- http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr057.shtml
Ornisa,
This is so amazing. I watched The Chick Hatchery video and loved seeing the chicks emerge. I plan to share this with my two year old son. Great ideas for how to use with a class.
Jenn
Hope your son will like it. Kids in the classroom will also like it if we add this exciting elements to plain lesson.
That's good for students and there are benefits for them to learn this.
It is interested and colourful learning activity that applies this Virtual Museum tool.
Now it's very good that the problems of normal field trips will be get rid by using this technology tool. Personally, I think students in this present-day are very good luck in learning, because there are many technology tools can bring to support their learning.