Name
MUSEUM VISITS
Topic
Visiting 3 museums in a day - classroo activities
Learning time
8 hours and 50 minutes
Designed time
8 hours and 50 minutes
Size of class
20
Description
Student do pre-visit activities, activities during the visit and post-visit activities.
Aims
To meet the students with 3 museums in their hometown; to raise their awareness about the importance of preserving the past; to give them the opportunity to learn on-site and apply that knowledge in various school subjects.
Outcomes
Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis
Editor
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PRE-VISIT ACTIVITIES
90 minutes)
  • Investigate
    45
    20
    0
    A few days before the visit, three students get their assignments: to search through the website of one of the museums and write 5 questions for the museum guide. They become 'experts' for these museums.
  • Read Watch Listen
    15
    20
    0
    On the day of the visit, one teacher monitors the lesson held by those three students. The teacher writes KWL table on the board (K - what I already know about the topic, W - what I would like to know about the topic, L - what I have learned about the topic). The students are given the topic ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM. They individually write anything they know about it on sticky papers. The student holding the lesson puts them in column K.
  • Collaborate
    20
    0
    Students are given a paper with several offered items about the artefacts which one might find in an ethnographic museum. In groups of 3-4, student circle possible answers. The 'expert' shows the website and others tick on their paper their answers which were correct. A short discussion follows.
  • Produce
    10
    0
    Students individually write what more they would like to know about this museum on a sticky paper and put the paper in column W. They copy that on a separate paper or take a photo of it with their mobile phone.
Notes:
ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM: the visit is scheduled to start at 12 O'CLOCK The same is done with other two museums: MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND TECHNICS HOME OF MR. JEVREM GRUJIC
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ACTIVITIES DURING THE VISIT
360 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    300
    0
    Students have a museum guide. They watch and listen, they comment and ask questions they have taken with them from the school. They write down the answers to their questions.
  • Collaborate
    60
    0
    The 'expert' talks to the museum guide and conducts the interview which is filmed.
Notes:
The same is done with other two museums: MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND TECHNICS - scheduled at 2pm HOME OF MR. JEVREM GRUJIC - scheduled at 4pm
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POST-VISIT ACTIVITIES
80 minutes)
  • Discuss
    15
    0
    During a lesson, the teacher discusses the visits with students, what they liked etc.
  • Produce
    20
    0
    Students and teachers do evaluation online: https://maja114.typeform.com/to/JHyzY9 They also write what they have learned individually on sticky papers and put them in column L.
  • Read Watch Listen
    45
    0
    In their lessons of history or some other relevant subject, the students who went to museums present the material to other students in their classes.
Notes:
Video and photos taken during all activities are uploaded on eTwinning Twinspace of the Heritage project, as well as on the school website. Additional task for students: list artifacts from three museums which belong to the same time period.
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