Reissman, Rose (2009, February). Museums in the Classroom. Learning and Leading with Technology, 36 No.5, Retrieved 2/14/09, from http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/200902/
Rose Reissman has come up with a great way to get your kids out of the classroom without ever leaving it--digital fieldtrips. By visiting a museum online students can do everything they would on a regular field trip: research, activities, view artifacts--and it’s free! In her article, Reissman highlights some good resources to help teachers plan a trip to a cyber museum. For example, www.resourcehelp.com/qser.museum.htm is a comprehensive search engine to hundreds of museums. She suggests having student turn the classroom, itself, into a museum to exhibit the students work. The site http://www.greatmuseums.org.virtual_museums.html/ would be helpful in planning one. There is even a site for museum glossary terms www.albanyinstitute.org/Education/Discovering. Finally, for teachers who don’t have experience integrating museums into their classrooms she suggests Going to a Museum? Resources for Educators at http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/it/projects/Museums. This site can help even experienced teachers with new ideas and step-by-step planning.
I think there are some great suggestions and tools in this article. I like her suggestion of using the cyber-visits to expand holiday units, like Thanksgiving, with a visit to the Pilgrim Hall Museum. I can see how visiting a local museum site could also encourage a visit to the actual museums later, perhaps with family members. Students could report to the class their out of class experience as well. I also like how this makes these museums available to all children, even those who don’t have the resources or the capabilities to visit museums.
Questions:
What do you think are some advantages to visiting a museum online?
Well for one thing, organizing a trip outside of class involves permission slips and a host of issues that it seems can be avoided here. Also there’s the equity issue of it being free and available to everyone, and it makes museum trips possible to places the class could never travel to anyway. It’s also a good way to generate interest and expose the children to the idea of a museum as a resource for information. It allows the students to explore their own individual interests in the subject.
How can visiting museums help with instruction?
It seems there’s a museum out there that can help supplement any teacher’s lesson plans. She mentions the National Cryptologic Museum as a way to use cryptograms to teach puzzle solving skills. Her suggestion of turning the classroom into a museum and showcasing student work seems like an activity rich with student involvement and creativity.
Rose Reissman has come up with a great way to get your kids out of the classroom without ever leaving it--digital fieldtrips. By visiting a museum online students can do everything they would on a regular field trip: research, activities, view artifacts--and it’s free! In her article, Reissman highlights some good resources to help teachers plan a trip to a cyber museum. For example, www.resourcehelp.com/qser.museum.htm is a comprehensive search engine to hundreds of museums. She suggests having student turn the classroom, itself, into a museum to exhibit the students work. The site http://www.greatmuseums.org.virtual_museums.html/ would be helpful in planning one. There is even a site for museum glossary terms www.albanyinstitute.org/Education/Discovering. Finally, for teachers who don’t have experience integrating museums into their classrooms she suggests Going to a Museum? Resources for Educators at http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/it/projects/Museums. This site can help even experienced teachers with new ideas and step-by-step planning.
I think there are some great suggestions and tools in this article. I like her suggestion of using the cyber-visits to expand holiday units, like Thanksgiving, with a visit to the Pilgrim Hall Museum. I can see how visiting a local museum site could also encourage a visit to the actual museums later, perhaps with family members. Students could report to the class their out of class experience as well. I also like how this makes these museums available to all children, even those who don’t have the resources or the capabilities to visit museums.
Questions:
What do you think are some advantages to visiting a museum online?
Well for one thing, organizing a trip outside of class involves permission slips and a host of issues that it seems can be avoided here. Also there’s the equity issue of it being free and available to everyone, and it makes museum trips possible to places the class could never travel to anyway. It’s also a good way to generate interest and expose the children to the idea of a museum as a resource for information. It allows the students to explore their own individual interests in the subject.
How can visiting museums help with instruction?
It seems there’s a museum out there that can help supplement any teacher’s lesson plans. She mentions the National Cryptologic Museum as a way to use cryptograms to teach puzzle solving skills. Her suggestion of turning the classroom into a museum and showcasing student work seems like an activity rich with student involvement and creativity.
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