One of my classes is going to visit this museum next month, but I already was there some years ago.

So I thought I can group them in 4 and ask them to focus on one room each group and take notes and Photos of the material in that room in order to create a spark Adobe presentation.

As for example...

In the room of dynamics there are these apparatus, describe them and explain what purpose they are bilt for.

Ida.

this is my attempt to create a museum learning experience

https://sway.com/FqECJwFiD6qIAWDj?ref=Link

I hope you like it ;)

Ida Maiellaro

I teach Physics and I'd like to 'use' a mueum visit to let students become curious about how some modern things work thanks to old discoveries and inventions.

For example I found it interesting that kind of museum in Berlin. I grouped students in three. I asked them to wonder around the three floors of the SPECTRUM museum and experience all the interactive activities they liked. Then I asked them to focus on electricity and magnetism because we were studying that branch at the moment (they were at the last year)

They had to report which experiment/activity they liked most and to which daily life aspect it could be related to

Then they had to answer some questions I had prepared about the topic.

What do you think about it ?

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CahpmAirac3IxEIuMwyyTowsJ2iHemP3

Then I asked students to do something similar with a polesterole cone, cut by a plane with different inclination.

They worked in group of 4. I asked them to place the conic shapes on a drawing paper, place the cartesian axes and recognize the curve, describe the main features, write the equation they had already studied. This was a practical way to assess them. The following step was to solve rpoblems and do exercise but after having seen the curves , all had more sense.

In the following video and pictures I'm explaining this activity during a teacher training week in the ERASMUS + project "Not a So.Lo. Wave"

Of course organizing the visit could be stressing but, for example, in my school there is a teacher who has the extra task to organise, contact, and book the activities, once the team of teachers gives him the main indications as for example 

Where we want to go, which museum to visit - Which activities we need to do there - When approximately we need to go (giving a week within to choose the date consequently to the museum free dates) - Which classes will join the activities - How many students.

Once s/he gets these information, the burocratic machine starts to move and teachers only have to take care of the didactic aspect.

 

Here it is my first coogle mind map.