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These are the Best free online virtual museum tours for kids education. Students can explore natural history, modern art, exhibition of art works, events, and field trip with virtual museum tour using google arts and culture walk through 360 photos and 3D VR maker software and app.

During the lockdown time, many great museums are closed. We cannot visit them physically. However, the good news is that the Museums have developed virtual museum that they prepare independently, or they work together with google arts and culture to create virtual museum exploration using Google's technology of google walk where all significant locations in the museum are photographed and integrated in Virtual Reality exploration that can be accessed online and for free.

Our kids and students can enjoy exploring and visiting the best museums virtually from their home, from their bed room, from afar. Kids can witness dinosaur bones from their laptop or desktop computer.

I have invested time to look for the best free online virtual museum tours, and here they are:

The Louvre

During the pandemic time, many public places are closed, including the Louvre. However, Louvre offers online museum exploration through 3D photo. All important parts of this French museum have been taken photos and assembled in the virtual tour. You will see Egyptian antiquities in which pharaonic period artefacts are displayed. Kids can explore this museum from home. Make sure you have good internet connection because the virtual tour uses lots of 360 degree HD resolution photos.

Teachers can assign their students to write report about their experience exploring the Louvre virtual museum. This virtual museum is suitable for kids, especially for educational purposes. Another example of task or assignment for the students is to ask them to capture (screenshot) some specific images in this museum. Prepare a table with each name of the image to seek (in the left column), and the blank space (right column) for the students to fill in (paste the image).

Here is a glimpse of The Louvre:

at the bottom left corner, you see a small map with red bullets. Click on the map to enlarge it, and click on the red spot button to go to the selected position/location in the building.

With photo 360, the Virtual Museum Tour feels real.
VISIT: The Louvre Virtual Museum Tour
In addition to the main virtual museum tour, The Louvre also offers a section specifically provided for kids. It has some educational history videos. I really love it, and hopefully your kids too. Here a brief picture of the stories:

What to preview one of the videos? Here, I embed the video that I like "The Egyptian Expedition":
VISIT: The Louvre fo Kids
British Museum

British Museum, in cooperation with Google Cultural Institute, provides us with a virtual museum tour presented in an interactive digital exploration.

You can select historical events based on the locations. There are Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.

The dates/years are presented in form of road like path with horizontal lines representing the years, such as AD 900, AD 800, and so forth.

Each historical event is marked with dots in different colors. The colors represent the location, for example; events happening in Europe is presented in blue dots. You can click on the dot to see the detail.

Filtering information is easy. On the right side panel is a filter in which you can select event based on categories: Art and design, living and dying, power and identity, religion and belief, and trade and conflict.

When you click on the " FIND OUT MORE " button within the info box, like that of The Atomic Apocalypse - Day of the Dead, as seen in the image above, a more detailed information will appear like below:

In the detail box, you can see the image representing the historical event, a passage explaining about the event, the google map of where the event took place, photos of some related objects, and a short audio explaining the event. When listening to the audio, it felt like I were in the museum, listening to the guide explaining about specific object in the museum. It's wonderful. Here is the sample audio taken form the detail photo above:

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For Teachers:
Teachers can assign a specific task for students to explore a specific historical event using this virtual museum tour application. Invite them to write their experience in exploring the past using this app. I believe you teachers will find more creative ideas for historical tasks using this interactive app.
For Parents:
Parents can guide his/her kids to explore this virtual museum. Parents can help explain how to use and navigate the app, provide specific instruction, and even add more explanation and how it relates to real life in the present time or even in the future.
Visit: BRITISH MUSEUM
MetKids from MetMuseum.org

Metmuseum.org established an awesome website or interactive virtual museum for kids. It is presented in a cartoon illustration with dots of Red and Yellow that are clickable. When clicked, the Red or Yellow dots shows a pop up showing image and title of the spot.

You can spend time exploring the map, it is very HUGE!

Another great feature by MetKids is the Time Machine Page. Here is the preview:

To use the time machine, you need to select specific destination by filtering it using some selections. You can specify what period it is; like during the ancient world (8000 - 2000 BC), Medieval Art, Early Modern, and Modern Times.

You can also use more filter by Geography. Specify based on locations: Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania, latin America and The Carribean, Middle east, and North America.

Besides that, you can also put more filter by the category of Big Ideas in which you can select based on Inventions, creatures, mythology, battles, sports and games, secrets, city and country, magic and mystery, fashion, and spaces and places.

After choosing the filter, you can click on the push button image. It will take you to the target based on your filter.
VISIT: MetKids Museum
VAN GOGH Virtual Museum

VAN GOGH's great art works:

Van Gogh Museum is physically located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. During the pandemic time, this museum is closed for visitors. However, you can still see around inside this museum through virtual museum tour. Van Gogh Museum, in cooperation with Google Arts & Culture, offers Virtual Museum Tours. This virtual museum can be explored by adults or kids, all ages.

This art museum has the artworks collection, if I may say, the largest. All art works are by Vincent Van Gogh. He was born in 1853 and passed away in 1890. There are about 200 paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. More than 500 drawings, and then 750 letters.

This museum also displays exhibitions about different subjects of art history from 19th-century.

If you want to know more about Van Gogh Museum, please visit the website: https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en

In the virtual museum, you will be presented with 4 online exhibits: Which books did vincent van gogh read? Vincent Van Gogh's love life.

The collection displayed includes paintings in: Post-impressionism (113 items), Modern Art (107 items), Oil Paint (106 items), Neo-Impressionism (100 items), Canvas (99 items), and more.

The virtual museum tour covers specific areas in the museum: Ground Floor, First Floor, Second Floor, and Third Floor.

Well, want to explore the virtual museum now? here is the link:
GO TO VAN GOGH MUSEUM GROUND FLOR
or
VISIT: MAIN PAGE of VAN GOGH VIRTUAL MUSEUM
BOSTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM

Boston Children Museum is another great museum for kids that offers Virtual Museum Tour. This museum also works together with google arts and culture. The second oldest museum in the world, Boston Children's Museum, is the most influential museum. If offers realia of ancient artefacts, including Americana, Ancient World, California Baskets, Clothing, Dolls, material culture from africa, native american collection, Natural history, and many more.

Here is a brief exploration in the Boston Children's Museum. Use your mouse to scroll.

Want to know other virtual museum tour in the Boston Children's Museum? visit the official website. Here is the link:
VISIT: BOSTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History virtual tours offers 6 tours: Permanent Exhibits, Current Exhibits, Past Exhibits, Museum Support Center & Research Stations, A few other smithsonian tours, and narrated tours.

In this virtual museum tour you guide yourself in exploring the rooms. You can select specific exhibits and areas in the museum using your own device, desktop computer, laptop, mobile device, and the likes.

In the current Exhibits we can see African Bush Elephant and Rotunda, African Voices (various musical instruments), Bone Hall (Bones of humans and animals), Butterfly Pavilion (numerous kinds of beautiful butterflies), Fossils Deep Time (Exploring Fossils through different times), ancient egypt, minerals, mammals, insects zoo, and many more.
VISIT: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

The National Gallery of Art, located in Washington DC - USA, offers collection of artworks by various american artists.

This Art museum has preserved huge collections of artworks in order to exhibit and foster the works of arts to society.

If you cannot visit this museum physically, you can explore it from your bed room virtually. In the virtual museum tour of the National Art Gallery, you will see two online exhibitions: the Fashioning a Nation, and the Vermeer and the masters of Genre Paintings.

The collection of Artworks is categorised into: Paper, Graphite, Watercolor paintings, Etching, Cardboard, and Ink.

They are all wonderful artworks. I really love the paintings. They are very inspirational.
VISIT: VIRTUAL MUSEUM TOUR of THE NATIONAL ART GALLERY
If you are interested in more educational resources provided by the National Art Gallery, you can visit the official website. https://www.nga.gov/

UFFIZI GALLERIE, ITALY

Giorgio Vasari designed the Uffizi in 1560 in dedication to Cosimo I de'Medici for the house of the Grandcual Magistratures of Tuscany. This museum exhibits collection of artworks in Italy.

In this Virtual Museum version of the Uffiz, you will see artworks in several categories: Renaissance, Drawings, Federico Barocci, Oil paint, Italian Renaissance, and paper. There are about 156 items of artwork that you can witness in the virtual version.
VISIT: UFFIZI GALLERIE
THE MOAI IN EASTER ISLAND

Have you ever watched movies in which big stone statues buried on a remote island suddenly came out? Yes, here is the real place, the MOAI of Easter Island.

As a matter of fact, Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, separated form the coast of Chile far away.

There, you can also see the Ahu Nau Nau. One of the most recognisable sites in Rapa Nui, Ahu Nau Nau is a restored ceremonial platform site with 7 giant MOAI statues. The google arts and culture remade it in 3D format so that you can explore it from different angles.

The statues are believed to have a source of spiritual power.
TOUR THE MOAI of EASTER ISLAND
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM - EXOTIC UNDERWATER MUSEUM

This aquarium based museum offers exotic way in exploring the museum virtually. It uses LIVE CAM.

Here, you can see Aviary Cam, in which you explore and peek into Aviary for an adventure in bird watching. In the Jelly Cam, you see the breathtaking sea nettles drift and pulse. In the Kelp Forest Cam, you see sardines swirl and leopard sharks glide through gently swaying kelp canopies. In the Monetary Bay Cam, you look at otters, birds and sailboats. In the Moon Jelly Cam, you will witness and be hypnotised by gorgeous glowing moon jellies. In the Open Sea Cam, you view open-ocean animals, like tuna, turtles, sharks, and sardines. In the Penguin Cam, you check the African penguins waddling and nesting. The Sea Otter Cam offers sightseeing of sea otters frolicking and swimming. In the shark cam, you will be amazed by the sharks and other habitats in the bay.

In the official website you can learn further about animals. You can check the Animals A to Z section, Habitats, Animal stories, Animal Care, live cams, and wall papers.

This website is specifically established for charity and educational purposes.

Here is the live Cams of Shark Cam, as broadcasted in youtube:

Want to see more?
VISIT: MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM VIRTUAL TOUR
ROALD DAHL Visit Museum from Home

Road Dahl Museum offers you with visit from home. The concept is rather different from other virtual museum's. Here, you are presented with photos of some sections in the museum along with the description that you can read.

Although it does not provide virtual tour using 3D or VR technologies, this museum does offer good service, especially for educational purpose.

They come with a view "As you can't come to us, we thought we'd come to you!"

In this Roald Dahl museum, you can find many things amazing. You can explore the Writing Hut, Roald Dahl Story Ideas book.

There are even great activities that kids can come along from home, like Make a chocolate wrapper ball, and make a wonka factory machine.
VISIT: ROALD DAHL MUSEUM FROM HOME
NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER

Nasa Glenn Research Center offers amazing technology minded views. It's very futuristics. It is movie like sightseeing. NASA Glenn Virtual Tours invite you to get an inside look at NASA Glenn Research Center's facilities. You can select a tour and tap the icons to view videos, images and see testing in action.

There are supersonic wind tunnel, low speed wind tunnel, The electric propulsion and power laboratory, icing research tunnel, ballistic impact lab, flight research building, and many more.

See it in action. This is just one of them:

Want to explore more about Nasa Glenn Research Center and be amazed?
VISIT: NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER
National Museums Scotland

National Museums Scotland has been working with Google in exhibiting the museum's key objects. With the help of Google's advanced technology Google StreetView, a lot of scenes at the National Museum of Scotland can be explored virtually. The main parts are: Grand Gallery, Roof Terrace, Exploring East Asia, and Ancient Egypt Rediscovered.
In the online Exhibit section, you can explore:

Scottish inventions that rocked the world

Tele-visionary genius: John Logie Baird

How Alexander Graham Bell Invented the Telephone

Scotland's Early Silver

Next of Kin

VISIT: NATIONAL MUSEUM of SCOTLAND VIRTUAL TOUR
or
GO TO: OFFICIAL WEBSITE of NATIONAL MUSEUM of SCOTLAND
BENAKI MUSEUM

The Benaki Museum offers various museums with 360 virtual tours. You can check:

Museum of Greek Culture

PIREOS 138

Museum of Islamic Art

The Ghia Gallery

The Yannis Pappas Studio

NEMA

Toy Museum

Delta House

The Leigh Fermor House

The Valadoros Collection

In addition, the museum provides Video series under the Multimedia category. Some other categories are:

Multimedia: close up video series

Exhibitions: Mr. Robinson Crusoe stayed home (adventures of design in times of crisis),

1821 Digital archive.

Education: Activities for Children, and other educational programmes.

Publications: Discover Benaki Museum Publicatons.

VISIT : BENAKI MUSEUM OFFICIAL WEBSITE
The Frick Collection Virtual Museum Tour

The frick collection virtual museum tour offers unique museum presentation in which the virtual museum tour is arranged into a building map that you can explore by selecting specific room. Once selected, the 360 virtual tour page will load. Wait until it is 100% loaded and you are ready to explore the virtual museum.
Here is a quick view of the map:
You can also check the art gallery that displays photos of Paintings, Sculpture, furniture, ceramics, paper paintings, textiles, clocks, medals, enamels, and many other collections.
VISIT: THE FRICK COLLECTION VIRTUAL TOUR
The J. Paul Getty Museum - Los Angeles, United States

The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center displays art works from the eighth through the twenty-first century, displayed amongst a background of lofty buildings, tranquil gardens, and marvellous sight of Los Angeles. Furthermore, The collection covers European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European, Asian, and American photographs.

The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in Malibu shows Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities exhibited in a setting like after a first-century Roman country house, the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, Italy
The online exhibit includes:

A historic Black Rights Protest

Muses in the Lab: Conserving a Roman Sarcophagus

Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows

Faces of Roman Egypt

Lauder of Sant'Agnese

Japanese-American Photographs

Pastels in Pieces

Fantastic Beasts of the Middle Ages

The Destruction of Pharaoh's Host

Pride at the Getty

The Artist's Methods: Dega "waiting"

An Enduring Icon: NotreDame Cathedral

The Getty Book of the Dead

Balthazar: A Black African King in Medieval

and many more

VISIT: GETTY MUSEUM VIRTUAL TOUR
or
VISIT: GETTY MUSEUM OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Musee D'Orsay, Paris

The history of the Musee D'orsay - Paris, of its building is very unique. In the middle of Paris on near the Seine, opposite the Tuileries Gardens, the museum was established in the front of Orsay railway station, accomplished for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. Hence, the building of Musee D'orsay could be viewed as the former "work of art" in the Musee d'Orsay, that exhibits collections of art from the period between 1848 to 1914.
VISIT: MUSEE D'ORSAY PARIS VIRTUAL MUSEUM TOUR
or
VISIT: MUSEE D'ORSAY OFFICIAL WEBSITE
MUSEO FRIDA KAHLO - MEXICO - Virtual Museum Tour

Frida Kahlo is a famous Latin American artist in the world. The museum displays little house of Frida Kahlo. The museum displays art works of Frida Kahlo, and many of old photographs.

In the virtual museum tour, you can explore the Garden, Temporary exhibition about "appearances can be deceiving", Frida Kahlo's studio, and the kitchen.
TOUR FRIDA KAHLO MUSEUM VIRTUALLY FRIDA KAHLO MUSEUM OFFICIAL WEBSITE
THE NATIONAL GALLERY - LONDON - VIRTUAL MUSEUM TOUR

The National Gallery's virtual tours allow us to enter the Gallery and explore one of the greatest collections of paintings virtually. We can experience the Gallery in virtual reality through desktop, phone or VR headset.

The Google virtual tour of The National Gallery let us explore some of the Gallery's Renaissance masterpieces with Google.
TOUR the National Gallery London
THE SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART
VISIT: SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART
THE VATICAN MUSEUM VIRTUAL TOUR
TOUR THE VATICAN MUSEUM
There are so many wonderful museums in the world, but not all of them has an opportunity and resources to appear in the digital or virtual version while many others have cooperated with Google Arts and Culture to provide virtual museum tour.

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There are hundreds of free virtual museum tours that you can take with your kids. What a magical thing it is to be able to visit a world class museum from home - no standing in line, no bustling around an exhibit to get a closer look and no tired feet at the end of the day. We found the best free virtual museum tours that your kids can visit today!

Virtual Museum Tours for Kids

Whether you are using virtual museum tours as part of entertainment, eLearning, homeschooling, homework or just for fun, these trips around the world will be educational and full of adventure. Let's enter the magical world of virtual museum tours!
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What is a Virtual Museum Tour?

Many of the world's best museums closed for a period of time during 2020, but wanted to offer ways for visitors to safely visit and learn. Virtual museum tours were born as a way to experience the museum from home touring it through your computer or phone and see the exhibits inside the museum just like you were touring on foot. The good news is even though years have past, many of the virtual museum visits still are alive online as museums found a new way to reach new visitors!

Google Arts & Culture Virtual Museum Tours

The first virtual museum tour for kids we want to suggest isn't just a museum! It is a destination for all sorts of amazing works. Google has partnered with over 2000 museums, galleries and associations to bring a curated collection to your home.

"Visitors" can choose from more than 500 galleries and museums to experience from the comfort and safety of their own couch, thanks to a massive project organized by Google Arts & Culture. We have highlighted several of our favorites in this article.
Choose from a list of over 500 galleries and virtual museum tours at Google Arts & Culture
Favorite Free Virtual Museum Tours

You could spend hours, days and weeks exploring all the virtual museum tours of museums you may know...and many that you don't. Some of my favorites include...

1. NASA

NASA - Washington, United States - NASA has over 40 online exhibits for kids to explore from The Mars Mission to Mars as Art. With over 150K items to discover, this virtual tour will transport you beyond the four walls of your house!
Take a virtual museum tour of NASA
2. National Museum of Natural History

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History - Washington, United States - this is one of my very favorite places in the entire world. Normally you would have to travel to the National mall in Washington, DC but now you can look through the archives of the Earth's physical, cultural, and biological diversity through the curated items they chose for this virtual museum tour project which is over 65K items!
Take a virtual museum tour of the National Museum of Natural History
3. Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower - Paris, France - Virtually tour the Eiffel Tower and walk back in time through the construction and inauguration with the online exhibit tours. You may not get a full picture of how massive the structure feels when you are standing below it, but it is a really fun virtual trip.
Take a virtual tour of the Eiffel Tower
4. Life

Life Photo Collection - New York, United States - This is a photo tour through the iconic images we have all seen through LIFE magazine that was founded in 1936. Set aside some time because this collection has over 4 million items. Amazing photo art!
Take a virtual tour through the LIFE Photo Collection
5. National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico

Mayan civilization artifacts, need I say more? With 23 rooms, there's even more to see and experience in this museum; after all, the architecture of the building is also innovative.
Take a virtual museum tour of the National Museum of Anthropology
6. Monterey Bay Aquarium

The Monterey Bay Aquarium is a place you really need to see in person if you can, but in the meantime, they have really cool live cams from 7 am to 7 pm PT that you can visit online. Right now there is a Kelp Forest Cam that is really cool to watch. They also have a sea otter cam, aviary cam, jelly cam, moon jelly cam, penguin cam, open sea cam, Monterey Bay cam and a shark cam!
Take a virtual tour of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Live Cam
7. Easter Island

You can get up close and personal exploring the Moai. Follow along with the information and look at the unusual landscape...and more!
Take a virtual tour of Easter Island
8. Harry Potter Exhibit at the British Library

Dive deeper into the story of Harry Potter with the British Library. There is so much Harry Potter goodness to explore and if you are at home, you don't have to be quiet in the library!
Take a virtual library tour of the British Library with Harry Potter
Children's Museums with Virtual Tours

Some of my favorite museums were created with kids in mind. And many of these amazing and magical places now have free virtual tours for students or kids of all ages.

9. Boston Children's Museum

The Boston Children's Museum embraces play as learning for kids in a really fun hands on way. If you can't make it to the museum, you can visit it with a 3D self guided tour through each floor!
Take a virtual museum tour of the Boston Childrens Museum
10. Children's Museum Houston

Can't visit the museum in person? The Children's Museum Houston has come up with the next best thing...3D virtual field trips. You can explore the museum and hands on activities just like on an IRL visit.
Take a virtual museum tour of Children's Museum Houston
Virtual Art Museum Tours We Love

Here are just a few art museums I'm excited to share with my kids. These make great virtual museum tours for students free or as entertainment from home.

11. MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art - New York, United States - you can explore by collection or browse the art. They currently have an online exhibit of Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Take a virtual museum tour of MoMA
12. The Louvre, Paris

From the remains of the Louvre's moat to Egyptian artifacts, get a glimpse into one of Paris's top destinations.
Take a virtual museum tour of The Louvre
13. The British Museum, London

Wander through the iconic London museum virtually and see an array of artifacts in addition to cultural treasures like the ancient Rosetta Stone.
Take a virtual museum tour of The British Museum
14. The National Gallery, London

The National Gallery - London, United Kingdom - The cool thing about London's National Gallery is that you will walk through and RECOGNIZE so many great works of art. What I love about the virtual museum tour is that there are 40 online exhibits to explore in addition to the collections.
Take a virtual museum tour of The National Gallery
15. Sorolla Museum

Museo Sorolla - Madrid, Spain - you can explore the art of Joaquin Sorolla which is absolutely breath-taking and feels just a like a vacation on the beaches of a Spanish island.
Take a virtual museum tour of the Sorollo Museum
16. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

Hop between the four buildings of the only modern/contemporary art museum in Korea in their virtual tour.
Take a virtual museum tour of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
17. Kunsthaus Zurich

Kunsthaus Zurich - Zurich, Switzerland - This is one museum I haven't been able to visit in person so it is really cool to get a virtual museum tour of the amazing art collection.

Take a virtual museum tour of Kunsthaus Zurich

18. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Explore art and history with pieces ranging from the years 1200 through 2000 in this massive exhibit in Amsterdam... including some pieces by Rembrandt.
Take a virtual museum tour of Rijksmuseum
19. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Paintings, drawings, photographs, illuminated manuscripts, and sculptures, oh my. The pieces on display in this virtual museum tour hail from the 8th through the 12th century and are from around the world.
Take a virtual museum tour of The J. Paul Getty Museum
20. MASP, Brazil

Dubbed the first modern museum in Brazil, not only is the artwork incredible, but the way it's displayed is innovative. Artwork is suspended from the ceilings using perspex frames.
Take a virtual museum tour of MASP - Museu de ARte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
21. Ohara Museum of Art

Ohara Museum of Art - Kurashiki, Japan - This beautiful museum has a true virtual tour that kids can take through the halls and exhibit halls.
Take a virtual museum tour of Ohara Museum of Art
While virtual museum tours aren't nearly the same as experiencing a place firsthand, I, for one, am thankful for this incredible resource, and I hope my kids are too.

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Which was your favorite virtual museum tour for kids?

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21 Awesome Free Virtual Museum Tours to Take with Kids Today

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There are hundreds of free virtual museum tours that you can take with your kids. What a magical thing it is to be able to visit a world class museum from home - no standing in line, no bustling around an exhibit to get a closer look and no tired feet at the end of the day.

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Building Conceptual Understanding by Lynn Erikson

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Conceptual Understanding and  Learning Transfer

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The Notion of "Teaching for the Full Game" in Children's Education, Veronica Boix Mansilla

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Interdisciplinary Learning: A cognitive-epistemological foundation  Veronica Boix Mansilla

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Educating for Global Competence:Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World

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The Palace Museum is located in the heart of Beijing. Visitors will be excited to find a wide variety of historic sites, scenic parks, shopping malls, museums, and theatres in her vicinity. Conveniently located bus stops and subway stations provide easy access to transportation.

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EXAMINING OUR BELIEFS AND PRACTICES THROUGH INQUIRY KATHY G. SHORT AND CAROLYN BURKE

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What is Inquiry Learning?Jeni Wilson and Kath Murdoch

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Inquiry, Curriculum, and Standards: A Conversation with Kathy  Short Interview by Yvonne Siu-Runyan

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It's not a new idea that poets and scientists should talk to one another. During a visit to Florence in 1638, the young John Milton sought out Galileo Galilei. By then a blind old man, Galileo was living under house arrest, confined by the Inquisition for asserting, after his celestial observations, that the Earth revolved around the sun. Years later, old and blind himself, Milton would pay homage-in his epic poem about the origins of our universe, Paradise Lost -to the great astronomer, who makes a cameo appearance with his telescope pointed at the sun's dark spots.

Five years ago I got my first job, as a research fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; in the stray hours between thinking about Milton or Donne, I finished my first book of poems. In college, a wooden ramp across the four-hundred-year-old stone steps is the only outward sign of its most famous fellow. Fifty years ago, Stephen Hawking arrived fresh from his Ph.D. (as I did) to take up a research fellowship at Caius, then never left. Within that community, where I would sit down to lunch with friends in maths, genetics, or cognitive science, traces of those conversations began to creep into my notebooks and even into poems. When I got the commission to write a poem on light for this year's National Poetry Day-today, in the UK-my first thought was paradoxically of its absence: the black holes whose mysteries Professor Hawking has spent his career working to unfold.

When I wrote to Stephen to let him know about the poem dedicated to him, he asked to meet. Pulling my chair closer to his, I read him the first draft of " Relativity," accompanied by the soft, periodic beeps of his speech computer. I told him how I'd tried to re-create some of the excitement and awe at the cosmos I had felt reading A Brief History of Time in my early teens; how I first pulled a worn copy off the shelf in my local public library. At that age I was making regular trips there to devour all the paperback science fiction I could find. Physics at school was hardly my strong suit, but the same curiosity that made me love Asimov, Sagan, and Star Trek pushed me to read about wormholes and time travel "in the real world." Later I got hold of his book on audiocassette and let it wash over me, half understanding, in the dark of my childhood bedroom, with the Walkman gears whirring under the covers. I had painted the ceiling black one summer, then spent days up a ladder stippling it with stars.

Watching up close the painstaking process of cheek twitches and scrolling word menus by which Hawking communicates-it took him a quarter of an hour to type a single sentence, which then boomed from the speaker into the quiet room-filled me with a sense of the preciousness of language. Even as he offered to read my poem for National Poetry Day, he was self-deprecating about the synthesized voice he says he now thinks in: it is not very musical. To the contrary, I tried to reassure him, it has a rhythm and harmonics all of its own. Listening to recording after recording, I'd tried to hear it in my mind as I wrote and rewrote my lines. It was originally designed for a telephone directory, he added, with what I imagined was a chuckle. We'd shared a joke earlier about the strings of random words that flash up on his screen whenever the cheek sensor picks up stray movements, when he's eating, say, or the sensor is set too high: he should publish a volume of experimental poems.

Science relies on metaphor-traditionally the poet's tool-to describe and communicate itself. This was a recurring theme of my chats with scientific colleagues, who in their teaching come up with analogies to explain complex ideas for their students or phenomena taking place at a level we can't see. They were conscious, too, of how these metaphors can mislead, making the known and the unknown seem more alike than they really are. I wanted to explore that tension in "Relativity," whose title points to Einstein's celebrated theory of 1915, a hundred years old this year. For me, relativity also suggests the relationship between two things in a comparison-the ligature of the word like, which chimes through my poem-whose interplay enables us to think.

That the imaginative terrain of poets and physicists might overlap is nowhere clearer than in the thought experiments Einstein devised. Experiments that take place only in the mind, they make use of vivid props drawn from everyday life-trains, clocks, elevators-to lead us through the realms of the previously unthinkable. In one, Einstein imagined chasing a beam of light, a flight of imagination that led eventually to special relativity. Still another of his relativity thought experiments involves a moving train and two observers (one onboard, the other on the platform) who see the same flash of light. Einstein combined these ingredients into a paradox only solvable by realizing that time actually moves more slowly for the person on the speeding train. My poem's two-line stanzas are the train tracks of Einstein's imagined scene: parallel lines that will impossibly meet in the black-hole singularity his theories predict, where time stops and space ceases to make sense. As objects we can only ever observe indirectly, black holes are a powerful symbol of what we don't understand about the universe-terrifying and thrilling.

In formal terms, "Relativity" is a sonnet, a form I started to think of as a sort of black hole exerting its own gravitational pull, compressing an everywhere into its little room. Yet my sonnet starts with light not as it exists in the large-scale world of gravity but at the subatomic level of quantum physics. It is the grail of contemporary physicists to make these two irreconcilable theories speak to one another. The first part of "Relativity" recounts the physical experiment that demonstrates that light leads a double life. A light beam is shone through parallel slits: the photons behave like particles when observed passing through the aperture, but by the time they hit the screen opposite they're acting as waves, interfering to create a striped pattern of dark and bright bands-just like the stanzas of my poem. The so-called wave-particle duality is the notion that quantum objects behave like waves until you try to locate them, when that behavior disappears. Physicists now believe that it and Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle are just two manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon.

There are, of course, many poets more recent than Milton who have turned to science for inspiration: Lavinia Greenlaw, Gwyneth Lewis, Jorie Graham, J. H. Prynne, to name just a few. While writing "Relativity," I found myself haunted by a line-"Our eyes adjust to the dark"-in a poem by Tracy K. Smith from her extraordinary, Pulitzer Prize-winning third collection, Life on Mars. Smith's father was one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. In "My God, It's Full of Stars," she imagines Hubble's "oracle-eye" illuminating "the edge of all there is." Might not our eyes adjust to the dark? Smith's phrase echoes at the end of my poem, where it resurfaced as a question, a hypothetical-deferred, yet hopeful. After all, both Galileo and Milton in their blindness came to rely on other sorts of eyes.

Relativity
for Stephen Hawking
When we wake up brushed by panic in the dark
our pupils grope for the shape of things we know.

Photons loosed from slits like greyhounds at the track
reveal light's doubleness in their cast shadows

that stripe a dimmed lab's wall-particles no more-
and with a wave bid all certainties goodbye.

For what's sure in a universe that dopplers
away like a siren's midnight cry? They say

a flash seen from on and off a hurtling train
will explain why time dilates like a perfect

afternoon; predicts black holes where parallel lines
will meet, whose stark horizon even starlight,

bent in its tracks, can't resist. If we can think
this far, might not our eyes adjust to the dark?

Sarah Howe's Loop of Jade was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She is a Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute.

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It's not a new idea that poets and scientists should talk to one another. During a visit to Florence in 1638, the young John Milton sought out Galileo Galilei. By then a blind old man, Galileo was living under house arrest, confined by the Inquisition for asserting, after his celestial observations, that the Earth revolved around the sun.

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The danger of a single story | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based conceptual framework, which aims to integrate the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters.

Visible Thinking began as an initiative to develop a research-based approach to teaching thinking dispositions. The approach emphasized three core practices: thinking routines, the documentation of student thinking, and reflective professional practice. It was originally developed at Lemshaga Akademi in Sweden as part of the Innovating with Intelligence project, and focused on developing students' thinking dispositions in such areas as truth-seeking, understanding, fairness, and imagination. It has since expanded its focus to include an emphasis on thinking through art and the role of cultural forces and has informed the development of other Project Zero Visible Thinking initiatives, including Artful Thinking, and Cultures of Thinking.

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Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based conceptual framework, which aims to integrate the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. Visible Thinking began as an initiative to develop a research-based approach to teaching thinking dispositions. The approach emphasized three core practices: thinking routines, the documentation of student thinking, and reflective professional practice.

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Artifacts from Google Arts & Culture
Paul and Rafael

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Instructional Shifts to Support Deep Learning

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1. Please upload your Museum Trip CI (Big Idea) and LOI with chosen artifacts
2. Tomorrow's focus: dive into and unpack CISB Inquiry Cycle--what that looks like and strategy kit.
3. Explore Project Zero as tool

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Stars
-Digital Hexagonal Thinking
-Chance to search for artifacts for HWEO on museum sites

Wish
-More movement while we create actual resources that can be used in the classroom together with our teams

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*Working with my grade level team.
*Looking at our planning documents.
Wish- I am hoping to learn how to support students in inquiry learning and asking thoughtful and related questions.

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Star: all the resources you shared (specifically Global Competence video and Kathy Short article)

Star: discussions and activities on the inquiry cycle with our grade-level teams

Wish: that we can look more at student learning engagements and how to authentically build inquiry into those.

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⭐️ I liked the Hexagonal Thinking Tool
⭐️ I like when we moved into our grade level teams so we can use our own UOIs.
💫 I'm a little confused about what our learning targets are and where "creative places" comes in.

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2 stars:
-The hexagon activity
-identifying the online museum for our UOI

1 wish:
Need some more activities that we can use in our classroom

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I liked the hexagonal critical thinking activity. I found immediate use for this activity to help me in my classroom with building knowledge and thinking.

I appreciated the few opportunities we had to work as a group and make sense of the information in regards to our own curriculum and planning documents.

Wishes:
-I feel we need more clarity about the learning targets for each activity. What is the 'why' behind each session. How will this knowledge help us deepen inquiry? Some directions were unclear and not always clearly visible.

-I feel that there is not enough understanding of our curriculum and where we are at as a school. Many of the concepts we covered today are things we are already doing. How can we go further into supporting teachers where we are at in better creating inquiry based activities.

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1 star: understanding better about the inquiry cycle at CISB
2 star: Giving opportunity to work with grade levels but also with different subjects.

Wish: leave with more tools to apply in my planning and teaching.

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Two Star
1.  Working with big ideas and make them as a planning document with a grade-level team.
2.  Using the Hexagonal thinking toolkit to build up the keywords of the unit.

One Wish
1.  Strategies on how to let the students inquire through our unit.

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🤞practical that can be used in the classroom.
⭐️ Working in grade teams was useful
⭐️ hexagonal thinking tool was new to me and I found it a great way to think about units.

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2 stars:
Hexagon Activity
Rainbow Planner
1 wish:
Please share your best practices or activities related to inquiry given your experience level

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Two stars - museum tour & Big Ideas leading to multiple transdisciplinary themes

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⭐️  for the first time I got to experience how CI and LOIs were created.
⭐️ In the Jigsaw reading activity, I learnt about the power of presentation in collating information
💫💥 To have more movement!

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2 Stars
-Museums and Galleries
-Using hexagonal tool kit to create key words, formulate BIG IDEAS, lines of inquiry and  Key Concepts.
1 Wish
-Would to know more about inquiry cycle model for specialist aside from Kath Murdoch. Is there any template or example that we can look at?

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The session was good to get a general idea about creative places within a lesson.
The hexagon activity was great! ( I plan to use it with my students at the end of the unit) and the museum virtual gallery websites are great for researching.
For tomorrow session, it will be great to learn more specific strategies that will enhance creative learning in the classroom as well as engage the students more in the inquiry process.

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1. I really enjoyed doing the hexagonal thinking toolkit. I will plan to do that with my class.
2. I found it interesting and insightful watching Veronica Mansilla videos on Global Competence and "Teaching for the Full Game''.
3. My one wish is to have more time with my grade level team working on our unit planner .

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Sarah and Amanda

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Projects and Project-Based Learning: What's The Difference?

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Projects and Project-Based Learning: What's The Difference?

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Projects and Project-Based Learning: What's The Difference?

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Scope and Sequence alignment to inquiry update at CISB (participants please post here)

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Scope and Sequence alignment to inquiry update at CISB (participants please post here)

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The global community is at a critical moment in its pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). More than a year into the global pandemic, millions of lives have been lost, the human and economic toll has been unprecedented, and recovery efforts so far have been uneven, inequitable and insufficiently geared towards achieving sustainable development. The current crisis is threatening decades of development gains, further delaying the urgent transition to greener, more inclusive economies, and throwing progress on the SDGs even further off track.

Had the paradigm shift envisioned by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development been fully embraced over the past six years, the world would have been better prepared to face this crisis - with stronger health systems, expanded social protection coverage, the resilience that comes from more equal societies, and a healthier natural environment. Regrettably, the SDGs were already off track even before COVID-19 emerged. Progress had been made in poverty reduction, maternal and child health, access to electricity, and gender equality, but not enough to achieve the Goals by 2030. In other vital areas, including reducing inequality, lowering carbon emissions and tackling hunger, progress had either stalled or reversed.

As the pandemic continues to unfold, The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021 outlines some significant impacts in many areas that are already apparent. The global extreme poverty rate rose for the first time in over 20 years, and 119 to 124 million people were pushed back into extreme poverty in 2020. There is a risk of a generational catastrophe regarding schooling, where an additional 101 million children have fallen below the minimum reading proficiency level, potentially wiping out two decades of education gains. Women have faced increased domestic violence, child marriage is projected to rise after a decline in recent years, and unpaid and underpaid care work is increasingly and disproportionately falling on the shoulders of women and girls, impacting educational and income opportunities and health. Notwithstanding the global economic slowdown, concentrations of major greenhouse gases continue to increase. With the global average temperature reaching about 1.2°C above pre-industrial levels, the climate crisis has well and truly arrived, and its impacts are being felt across the world. The pandemic has also brought immense financial challenges, especially for developing countries - with a significant rise in debt distress and dramatic decreases in foreign direct investment and trade.

Yet, with a surge in global solidarity and leadership from the highest political level, countries can still deliver on the 2030 Agenda and the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change. A global vaccination plan, designed and implemented by the countries that can produce vaccines today or will be able to do so if properly supported, is an urgent first step in that direction.

A recommitment by Governments, cities, businesses, and industries to ensure that the recovery reduces carbon emissions, conserves natural resources, creates better jobs, advances gender equality and tackles growing poverty and inequalities is a further imperative. As this report shows, the availability of high-quality data is also critical, helping decision makers to understand where investments can have the greatest impact; but improved data collection will not happen without increased data financing, from both international and domestic resources.

The challenges are immense, but there are also reasons for hope. The COVID-19 crisis demonstrated inspiring community resilience, highlighted the Herculean work by essential workers in myriad fields and facilitated the rapid expansion of social protection, the acceleration of digital transformation and unprecedented worldwide collaboration on the development of vaccines. A brighter future is possible. We must use the crisis to transform our world, deliver on the 2030 Agenda and keep our promise to current and future generations.

António Guterres Secretary-General, United Nations

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Generate, Sort, Connect, Elaborate: Concept Maps

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Generate, Sort, Connect, Elaborate: Concept Maps

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Peeling the Fruit’ – A Map for Tracking and Guiding Understanding

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Peeling the Fruit’ – A Map for Tracking and Guiding Understanding