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What is Museum Box?
Museum Box (Discover Box) is an online tool.
Place multimedia items in the virtual box to create an understanding of a place, event, time, person, point of view, concept, discovery.
Museum boxes can contain:• Images
• Text
• Documents
• Audio
• Video
• Weblinks
What skills can students develop?• Writing for a range of purposes
• Informing, explaining, persuading
• Analysing, reviewing, commenting on information
• Collecting and recording evidence
• Drawing conclusions and evaluating
• identifying and explaining different points of view
• Communicating to an audience
• Appreciating attitudes and values of others
• Asking good questions
• Gathering and presenting information in a variety of forms
• Prioritizing and grouping information
• Acknowledging sources
Curriculum areas:
Range of curriculum areas including:
• Art : Process diary...follow a design process including influences
• History : examine an historic period, event or person
• Geography : explain a phenomenon with examples
• Literature: create a box about a book including characters, plot, setting etc
• Science: describe an invention or scientific principle. investigate important discoveries and scientists, look at a moral dilemma and its science.
• beginning of year create a personal box including goals, interests, hobbies
Technology skills :
• Internet searching, including an understanding of royalty free and copyright free materials
• manipulating images (using online tools or PowerPoint)
• creating sound files (audacity / garage band)
• creating short video files (Flip cameras / imovie or movie maker)
• creating pdf’s
• scanning
• uploading files from a network or other drive
What other online tools can you combine and present via museum box?
• Wordle
• Newspaper clipping – www.fodey.com
• Motivational posters, magazine covers etc from www.bighugelabs.com
• Search cubes (create a ‘print screen’ image to upload) http://search-cube.com /
• Graphic organiser brainstorms and mind maps eg Bubbl.us http://bubbl.us/
Assessment:• Skills and content rubric
• Messages on the Museum box site
• Teacher peer or self assessment
Evidence:
• Present box to class
• Print screen example of cube to show process
• Reflection
1.Planning
Use planning documentDecide on content and
what needs to be collected
3.Upload files, documents
multimedia to boxcaption and label
2.Selecting /Gathering
information, images,
Plan and create multimediacollect references
4.Edit and check all
box contentsSubmit to teacher via site
5.Teacher / peer /self asses
Teacher approves / rejects boxteacher messages student
Weblinks and resources:
Museum Box
http://museumbox.e2bn.org/index.php
Planning cube
Assessment rubric
Student reflection
Museum box ready for content
A blank cube
Examples
Year 6: Designed a modification to a current invention. They researched the original inventions, the inventor and documented their own modification.
http://museumbox.e2bn.org/creator/documents/view/40443
Year 4: Looked at how evidence tells us about the past. They made a first box about the European settlement of Australia. Then they did a personal inquiry about another time in history.
http://museumbox.e2bn.org/creator/documents/view/40447
Playing with Museum Box
• User name: brookie1 (all choose a different number)
• Password: cbrook1
• Select Cranbrook Junior School from the schools’ list