- field trip activities at the museum

- post-field trip activities conducted back in the classroom

Of course it is imporant to plan the visit in the curriculum, but sometimes we get invited somewhere during the year and then we just add the event to the curriculum at that point.

Organizing transportation is very important considering our school is away from everything. Bus companies, museums and other institutions we go to have free tickets for children in need so we have to arrange that too.

Of course we cannot forget collecting parents' consent.

Also since we have children from 3 different villages, while arranging the transport the company and the driver have to know that they have to pick up and in the end drop off children to their villages.

When arranging the museum visit, it is important to stress what the size of the group is and when we'll arrive.

Before going to the museum, we talk about rules of conduct in such a place and about what the children'll see there. Our museums have their own workshops for kids we can choose and after the visit teachers have post-visit activities depending on the age of the pupils (drawing and their own exhibitions, answering questions, doing different tasks).

- establishing rules

- select large works of art with plenty of space around them for your group to gather

- repeat or paraphrase students' comments as needed to ensure everyone can hear it

- use a theme or essential question to help students focus their looking and thinking

- investigate works of art to deepen engagement and foster close looking (recreate a pose, capture key details in a sketch, cite visual evidence)

- bring simple touch objects (eg. marble)

- students put on their own exhibits – they exhibit their learning

- in each exhibit there is a piece from different classes (math, history, science...)

- at the beginning students are presented with the essential question

- with their exhibits they show what they learned

- after 8 weeks of preparations they put the exhibit on

- the exhibit shows every understanding that the kids have

- students create exhibit labels for ever piece that's on the exhibit to let the audience know what this is and why it's important – inside the exhibit label there needs to be academic vocabulary, a connection to the content or the piece, the understanding of the essential question

- faculty meeting - assessment

With respect to the monastery and the nuns who guard the collection, perhaps some QR codes for important pieces could be made to encourage students to explore them more. It is a modern way to bring an old serious exhibition closer to the modern views of the new generations.

1.     Browse through a digitised museum catalogue

2.     Wander through a museum via a 360-degree photo tour

3.     Immerse yourselves in 360-degree virtual reality video

Assignments for students:

Before the visit:

1.    Invite guests to school – people who cherish these traditions and own traditional clothes (your parents, grandparents, neighbors…). Ask them to tell the students what the clothes are made of, how and when they are worn.

2.    Make an exhibition in school to show all parts of different traditional clothes.

During the visit:

1.    Photograph either the entire outfit, piece of clothing or some interesting details on the clothes.

Follow-up activity:

1.    Show others your photographs and explain why you chose that particular detail, why you think it’s interesting or important.

2.    Sketch that detail in colors in which it really is.

3.    Together with your colleagues make an exhibition of the sketches you made in the school hall.