Your Mission  School systems  all over the country  are facing budget cuts which prevent them from buying new books for school children.  Principals and teachers are faced with teaching students without books.  Fortunately, Congress has passed the Educational Access ACT with a budget to give schools monies to access the Internet.  Since museums around the world are jam-packed with information, we have decided to create Books and Lessons for kids using  Museums and Science Resources on the Internet.  Each team will be responsible to plan the unit for a Science Unit in a designated grade level.

Objectives of Museum Quest- What Will I Learn?
    l. Locate information on the Internet available in international museums and at Science Internet Sites
    2. Determine Science  concepts and vocabulary to be learned
    3. Create lesson plans for students to help them use the Internet like a book

Procedures - What Do We Do Next?
l. Determine the teams from our class.  Circle your team's job from the chart below.
 

Kind and Gr  1	Plants and Growing, Seasons	Magnets
Grade Two	Crickets and Insects	Habitats
Grade Three	Animals-survival,food chains	Sources of Energy
Grade Four	Simple Machines	Butterflies
Grade Five	Light and Sound Energy	Ocean Environments
Grade Six	Human Body	Electricity

2. Amongst your team members, assign roles: (circle your role)

    Curator: responsible for finding out all about the museums on the Internet, especially noting the museums  and Science sites that will help your team create their Internet Book Lessons
    Scientist: responsible for determining which are the key Science concepts and vocabulary that students at that grade level should know
    Writer: responsible for writing the lesson plans for students to use the Internet to learn new Science information (since they don't have books)

3. First Session on the Computers: Use the following links to help you begin your Museum Internet searches to begin to create Internet Books for your assigned students

Internet Links to Science Sites by Grade Level

Internet Links to Museums on the Internet

Virginia Standards of Learning (student objectives) in Science for each grade level

Record your information on the forms below:

Curator NoteTaking Sheet
 

Name of Museum	URL	Notes
l.	l.	l.
-	-	-
2.	2.	2.
-	-	-
3.	3.	3.
-	-	-
4.	4.	4.
-	-	-
5.	5.	5.

How will I create the lesson plan?  What will students be expected to do to show that they have learned the new Science concepts and vocabulary? (circle one)
    Questions on a Worksheet
    Multiple choice questions on a Worksheet
    Make a Book
    Answer a crossword Puzzle
    My idea _____________

Steps for Students to Follow: (Rewrite directions  your directions for your studentsusing Clarisworks 5.0.  Your directions should be
similar to those below).

l. Open Netscape and go the the following museum Internet sites:
    (You need to copy the correct URL here and then make a live link)
 
 

2. You are responsible to learn the following new Science terms/concepts:
 
 
 

3. Now that you have visited these sites, please do the following:
 
 
 
 
 
 

4. Step Four (back at the computer): Your team should be back at work at their individual jobs.  Specifically, the writer needs to create the lesson plan document for the students at that grade level for that unit using Clarisworks.  Check with your teacher how to save this document.  Record progress here for all team members:
 
 
 
 
 

        5 -Top work        4 - Good work      3- Ok work       4- Poor work

___ Our team found information at the Science and Museum Internet sites
___ Our team determined appropriate Science concepts and Vocabulary words (based on state standards)
___ Our team created an effective lesson plan for students to use the Internet to learn new Science information, since they don't have books
___  I used all of the time allocated to this project effectively
___  Our lesson plan had no spelling or grammar errors
___  Our directions were clear and our Internet sites were accurate

Bonus:  Describe any out-of-class work you did for this project:
 
 

Comments:

6. Step Six - We will publish your lesson plans on the School Homepage for all of those students without new Science books this year using HTML format.

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