virtual website vs. museum field trip at brooklyn children’s museum professor o’connor-petruso...

Virtual Website vs. Museum Field Trip

at Brooklyn Children’s Museum

Professor O’Connor-Petruso CBSE 3203: Module 3

Bushra Chaudhry, Tahreem Riaz, & Rizwana Din

Totally Tots hands on activity Virtual website: http://brooklynkids.org/index.php/discover/totallytots

In virtual website, it shows photos of kids exploring the water play area and the colorful sand. Also they are experimenting with sound with musical instruments at the art studio.

In onsite museum, we observed kids in the water play area where the kids were experimenting and playing with water and experimenting with sailboats (whether they sink or float depending on the depth of the water)

Kids were experimenting with different musical

instruments

The perceptual modalities that they

were using were tactile ( using fingers and touch)

& visual (using sight and eyes)

Sand place hands on activity Kids were playing at sand and

making sandcastles

There was no virtual tour on the sand place activity

They were using their fingers and touch (tactile) and body movement (kinesthetic)

Group 1 Group 2

Class 1 82 95

Class 2 76 88

Class 3 84 90

3 hands on Activities

1) Totally Tots hands on activity

2) Sand place hands on activity

3) Puppets play activity

Water play in Totally Tots. Children are given smocks so they can explore water freely.

Visitors learn about water Pressure/ Properties.

Sand play offers a variety of kinesthetic learning activities. This is an indoor beach area complete with toys and seashells. There are also fish in tanks surrounding the area and children are free to use any of the provided toys.

Chinese ShopRizwana Practicing Chinese letters.

Water Tunnel at the entrance of the Museum.

Visitors get hands-on experience with theater performances and different sounds of music from across the globe.

BCM offers an area for theater along with puppets and books to read from. Children can put on a puppet show according to each character in a read allowed. There are also spotlights and stages, complete with curtains.

BCM provide a library area that helps children focus on technology and Media. Children can create movies and share media on TV.

Drawing from observation. Putting pieces of a whole together and recreating what they learn.

Visitors assemble pieces of puzzles. Directly in line with Blooms Higher order of thinking, Synthesizing, and Kinesthetic learning.

BCM’s second floor is dedicated to physics. A topic that is directly in line with the common core standards.

AIR LIFT AND SAIL

HEAT AND AIR PRESSURE

WATERWAYS, DAMS, and how rivers can be controlled.

DAMS AND GATES THAT MONITOR RIVER FLOW

Compare/Contrast Table about Plant Observations

Plant Observations Tahreem Bushra Rizwana

Time Period(Weeks) 1 to 6(3 seeds)

1 to 6(3 seeds)

1 to 6(2 seeds at once and 1 seed later)

First Week Watered the seed In Door

Watered the seed In Corridor

Watered the seed In Room

Second Week A little plant came up. I keep on watering my plant and give sunlight

It gets dry Nothing appear

Keep watering Watering for growing

Third Week I had to use artificial light from a desk lamp because there was not enough sunlight from my window. A second plant began to sprout

No plant came upI keep on watering my plant and give sunlight.

A little bit of plants grew, and I keep on watering my plant and give sunlight.

Fourth Week Two plants continued to grow at an average of 2mm/week. The third seed finally began to sprout

No baby plants grew Two baby plants came up.

Fifth Week Three baby plants grew One plant just appeared. Two baby plants grew and one plant didn’t grow yet.

Sixth Week Three baby plants grew bigger

One plant grewAnother plant just appeared.

Two baby plants grew taller and one plant just appeared.

Seventh Week Three baby plants continued to grow. Strong wind by the window caused the third pant to die quickly. I moved the plants back on my desk with artificial light, and both plants remained healthy.

One plant died and the other plant stayed. The third plant never showed up.

Two plants died and the other plant grew.

Tahreem’s plant: Marigold

Bushra’s plant: Marigold

Rizwana’s plant: Sunflower

Reasoning/Importance of the Inquiry Skill “Observation” Inquiry skill is important for young children as well as for adults

because we are able to learn how we explore the world around us.

It also tells us the facts about the environment and its’ effects on nature.

We learn how long the seed germinates to a healthy plant.

All three plants has its’ own pace to grow, even if they are planted at the same time and at the same environment.

One of Bushra’s plants died, even when she planted her seeds at the same time.