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 |  موضوع: Examples of Virtual Tours and Electronic Field Trips in teaching world history  الثلاثاء مايو 11, 2010 8:56 pm | |
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Examples of Virtual Tours and Electronic Field
Trips
Excerpt from Best
Ideas for Teaching with Technology: A Practical Guide for Teachers, by
Teachers . . . Field trips are excellent ways to immerse students
in historical evidence by visiting museums, historical sites, author
residences, or government buildings. Field trips are also expensive,
complicated to organize, and draw students away from their other class
responsibilities. Fortunately, if you cannot visit an important site in
person, you can often visit the site virtually on the Web. While some
online virtual tours consist of static two-dimensional images and text,
others contain engaging three-dimensional animations and simulations,
panoramic video, and more. Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home and
plantation in Charlottesville, Virginia, offers an excellent example of a
virtual tour at http://www.monticello.org/.
The site offers two major tours of the house and plantation and several
more specialized tours related to domestic life and horticulture. Each
section of the tour has a Flash animated visit to a different section of
the house and plantation, narrated by the Monticello staff.
The British Broadcasting Corporation has some excellent online
virtual tours. BBC History tours are available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/virtual_tours/
and are divided into three major categories: Ancient History, British
History, and World Wars. The tours contain panoramas and 3-D models and
several involve historical reconstructions and simulations. The BBC's
new Audio and Video service also offers a tour of the trail that links
Shakespeare's birthplace of Stratford-on-Avon with the Globe Theatre in
London.
Virtual Tours are excellent vehicles for bringing primary source
materials into the classroom, and museums and historical sites are
adding more virtual tours to their Web sites. Some museums have Web
sites that are so well-structured, you can just let students loose on
them and trust that great learning will take place as students explore.
If you expect that your students will need a little more guidance, here
are some ways to structure student explorations of these tours.
- Build a Scavenger Hunt around a virtual tour or a specific museum
collection, like this one below
- Give students an essay question or a series of short answer
questions to be answered after taking the virtual tour.
- Have students design their own guided tour of a museum collection
organized around a theme, like Egyptian Objects for the Dead or Early
American Objects for the Home. Students could post links and their own
descriptions on a blog or Word document.
- For an advanced class, use a screen recording program (see Chapter
8, Student Presentations) to have teams of students record their own
guided visit to a museum collection or virtual site.
TechTrekers
Virtual Field Trips
Excellent for incorporating
multiculturalism into the classroom. Through this site teachers can
encourage their students to travel virtually to many countries. This
site consists primarily of links to numerous virtual field trips as well
as teaching projects, strategies and resources used by teachers around
the world.
British Museum
Tours
Tours include: The African Galleries; The 'Caves of
the Thousand Buddhas'; Changing Face: Masks from the British Museum;
Chinese Jade; Cleopatra of Egypt: from History to Myth; D�rer and his
Legacy; Egypt in the Old Kingdom; Gladiators and Caesars; Human Image; A
Kind of Magic; Our Top Ten British Treasures; Rembrandt the Printmaker;
Science and the Past; and The Vikings
The
Metropolitan Museum of Art
There is much quality material for
art students, educators, and enthusiasts at the The Metropolitan Museum
of Art web site. Start with the Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of
Art History, a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of
the history of art from around the world. Each timeline page includes
representative art from the Museum's collection, a chart of time
periods, a map of the region, an overview, and a list of key events. The
timelines- accompanied by world, regional, and sub-regional
maps-provide a linear outline of art history, and allow visitors to
compare and contrast art from around the globe at any time in history.
There is plenty more here apart from the Timeline: "Just for Fun" has
interactive activities for kids, "A Closer Look" examines the "hows and
whys" behind Met objects (such as George Washington Crossing the
Delaware), "Artist" enables visitors to access biographical materials on
a selection of artists as well as general information about their work,
and "Themes and Cultures" presents past and present cultures with
special features on the Met's collections and exhibitions.
BBC
History Virtual Tours
'Walk' around a historical building or
structure take a 3D tour of a famous site in British History. You can
embark on a Viking Quest, see how an Iron Age roundhouse was built, or
take a virtual tour of a World War One trench.
Smithsonian
American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum
(SAAM) is America's first federal art collection, dedicated to the art
and artists of the United States. More than 7,000 American artists are
represented, including major artists such as John Singleton Copley, John
Singer Sargent, Georgia O'Keeffe, and others. Themes and topics include
Colonial portraiture, nineteenth-century landscape, American
impressionism, twentieth-century realism and abstraction, New Deal
projects, sculpture, photography, prints and drawings, contemporary
crafts, African American art, Latino art, and folk art are featured in
the collection. Today the collection consists of more than 40,000
artworks in all media, spanning more than 300 years of artistic
achievement. The Smithsonian Online Exhibitions feature prize holdings
from different eras in American history. The online version of American
Art, the academic journal of the Smithsonian American Art Museum has
articles of interest to art historians.
Oriental
Institute Virtual Museum
The Oriental Institute Museum is a
showcase of the history, art and archaeology of the ancient Near East.
The Museum exhibits major collections of antiquities from Egypt,
Mesopotamia, Iran, Syria, Palestine, and Anatolia. The Oriental
Institute Virtual Museum makes use of a series of Apple QuickTime VR
panoramic movies to take you on an tour of each of the Museum's
galleries, accompanied by descriptions of each alcove and their
artifacts. Where appropriate, links to related materials, such as the
Museum's Highlights From The Collections, the Photographic Archives, and
relevant Oriental Institute Archaeology and Philology projects
elaborate on the most significant objects in greater detail.
U.S.
History.org
The Independence Hall Association in
Philadelphia has produced this fun and engaging site where you can enjoy
a virtual tour of Philadelphia and visit Betsy Ross' House. You can
also learn why Pennsylvania is misspelled on the bell and the story of
the crack. Electric Franklin provides resources for you to explore the
diversity that was Benjamin Franklin and there are several section that
deal with the revolutionary war.
Pilgrim Hall
Museum
Through its exhibition of Pilgrim possessions and
Native American artifacts, Pilgrim Hall tells the stories of America's
founding and traditions. The museum features an online tour of artifacts
owned by Pilgrims. Tour the PILGRIM STORY, which combines artifacts
with historical information to illuminate the Pilgrim and Native
American story to 1692, when Plymouth Colony as an independent entity
came to an end.Beyond the Pilgrim Story gives additional information
about particular aspects of the Pilgrim story that have been of interest
to visitors.
Turning the
Pages
Turning the Pages enables visitors to virtually "turn"
the pages of manuscripts using touch-screen technology and animation.
Historical
Tour of the White House
Britannia
Virtual Tours
Britannia's Virtual Tours will take you to
some of the most interesting places in England and Wales and in the
process help you to gain a better understanding of an area, its famous
people, its landmarks and its history.
Vatican Museums,
Vatican City
This site offers online tours of the
collections of art and antiquities at the Vatican museums. Collections
include the Gregorian Egyptian and Etruscan Museums, Raphael's Rooms,
the Pinacoteca (Art Gallery), and the Ethnological Missionary Museum.
Visitors can examiner various rooms in the Vatican, including the
Sistine Chapel. Visitors may also take a virtual tour of each room.
Mr.
Dowling's Electronic Passport
Mr. Dowling's Electronic
Passport helps kids browse the world in his virtual classroom. He
introduces you to many civilizations with clear explanations, engaging
graphics for kids, and "cool links". His study guides, homework
assignments and exams are free and available for you to print or to
edit.
Forum
Romanum
A nineteen year old freshman at Harvard has put
together an award-winning site on Ancient Rome that includes a virtual
tour, a dictionary of Mythology, a Picture Index, and much information
on History, Life, Language, and Literature
Dead
Romans
Part of the History Online project, this site
features an introduction to Roman coins, a 3D tour with maps and
historical background, artwork from the early Roman empire, a timeline
of emperors, and links
Virtual
Jamestown
The Virtual Jamestown Archive is an on-going
digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the
legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment."
There are first-hand accounts and letters, interpretive essays, and
more.
Pyramids
-- The Inside Story (PBS)
This attractive PBS site provides a
nice blend of images and history of the pyramids and offers insights
into excavations and mysteries.
Virtual
Tour Around a Medieval Town and Village
"You are a fantastic
inventor who has created a magnificent TIME MACHINE.
You set the dates for the time of the dinosaurs, but due to a
mechanical fault the machine has crash landed in the MIDDLE AGES.
Your task is to find the missing pieces of the time machine which have
been scattered around this area.
When you have found all of the missing pieces, you must then get back
to the machine to return home.
You should have a worksheet to help you with this."
Enter the Middle
Ages
Tramline
Virtual Tours with Tour Maker
- American Presidency (9-12)
- September 11 and Beyond (8-12)
- Dark Ages (5-8)
- Lewis and Clark (4-8)
- My America (4-7)
- The Oregon Trail (4-8)
- Women's History (9-12)
Bringing
an Online Museum Exhibit to Classrooms
by Laura C. Lewis
Laura
shares her work in creating an on-line exhibit based on the Illinois
State Museum exhibit "At Home in the Heartland." The exhibit explores
300 years of family life in Illinois through the personal narratives of
men and women who lived in Illinois and through objects from the home
across the centuries. Read her article and then visit the
site.http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/lewis.htm
Using
the Internet to Take a Field Trip and Encourage Writing
In
the third installment of his "Connecting Collaborators" column Frank
offers two creative ways for Internet collaborative teaching partners to
involve their students. In "Field Trip Exchanges" he offers suggestions
on using both words and pictures to share an educational experience. In
"Story Starters & Other Writing Ideas" he offers sparkplugs to spur
student creativity.
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