IntroductionUsing Web pagesExploring online museumsTalk About ItYour Turn

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Digital Sources of Information

• works of art?

• faraway places?

• famous historic events?

Do you want to know more about

The next best thing to seeing things for yourself may be to experience them virtually, through your computer.

Introduction

Web pages and online museums are valuable resources.

No transportation or tickets are necessary!

Introduction

They can bring historic documents, rare photographs, and works of art right to your computer.

You might even have created one of your own.

Web pages are what make up the World Wide Web. You probably use Web pages fairly often.

Tech Tool: Web Pages

Content on the Web is presented on pages that you view in a Web browser such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, or Safari.

Web pages can contain text, photos, and audio and video clips. They usually have links to other Web pages that help the user connect to related information.

Tech Tool: Web Pages

Web pages are created for a variety of purposes such as information, entertainment, self-expression, and even persuasion.

Tech Tool: Web Pages

Online museums are a kind of Web page helpful for conducting research. As you will see, online museums mostly provide information, but they can be entertaining as well.

Maybe you have visited a traditional museum before. Museums collect and display items for people to look at, listen to, or touch for enjoyment and education.

Exploring online museums

There is probably a museum for almost every area of interest.

Some museums also offer online versions of their collections. More than just a Web page, an online museum includes exhibits and tours that help you explore the museum’s collection.

Exploring online museums

The Smithsonian includes nineteen separate museums that together contain 142 million items.

A great example of an online museum is the Web site of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Exploring online museums

The Smithsonian’s online museum has a main page that you can use several different ways. You can

Exploring online museums

• search by keyword

• go to a specific museum related to your topic

• follow the links to specific exhibits

SEARCH

African Art MuseumAir and Space MuseumAmerican History Museum

Milestones of Flight

The Smithsonian also has a Web page designed just for students. You can look for information on this page by topic rather than by keyword.

For example, if you are researching rocks, you would click the Science & Nature link.

Exploring online museums

There are many types of resources on the Smithsonian Web site for almost any research topic imaginable.

Exploring online museums

audio recordingsonline activities

historical accounts

Other online museums you might want to visit include

Exploring online museums

1. What would you expect to see in a traditional museum exhibit about dinosaurs?

Talk About It

Discuss these questions with your classmates.

2. What would you expect to see in an online museum exhibit about dinosaurs? How would a virtual visit differ from an actual visit to a museum?

3. Are there ways in which an online museum might be more useful for research than visiting a physical museum? Why do you think so?

Your Turn

1. What is the purpose of the Web page?

2. What types of media are used on this Web page?

3. Where on this page would you go to find more information about the Humboldt penguin? Where would you find links to information about other animals?

4. Where on this page would you find information on becoming a member of the Woodland Park Zoo?

Look at the Woodland Park Zoo’s Humboldt Penguin Web page on the next slide and complete the following:

Your Turn

1. The purpose of this Web page is:

2. Types of media used on this Web page include:

3. To find more information on the Humboldt penguin I would go to:

To find links to information about other animals I would:

4. I would find information on becoming a member of the Woodland Park Zoo by:

Your Turn

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