Module 2-Field Trips to Museums

In this module, we will:

• explore how to prepare a field trip to a museum
• exchange tips and tricks for during the field trip
• discuss how to follow up and assess learning on a field trip
• discuss the potential of virtual field trip 

2.1 Planning your museum visit

 

I  believe  that  if  we want  to make a  visit  to a  museum  that is focus  on the  curriculum we  have  to  follow  the  next  steps :

•   First  of  all  we have  to  find  the  best  place (museum)  suitable  for  our  learning targets
•  We  have  to  let  our  students  expore  to the  museum's  website  in  order  to  be  familiar  with  the exhibits  and  the  structure
• Organise  our  trip from the   school's  side . Transportation, parents' allowance, documents  to  the general education office  in  order  to  approve  our  team's  trip .
• We  divide  our  students  to  teams  ,so  they  will be  ready  to  work  in  the  museum  for  the  organised  activities .
• We  found  the  suitable  person  to  guide  us  to  the  museum
• We  come  in touch with  this  person  and  let  him/her  know  about  the   targets  of  our  visit.

2.2 During your museum visit

 

The time  when  we  are  in  the  museum  we  have  first  to revise  all  the  rules  we  have  to keep  in  our  visit  to  museum and  certainly  expalin  one  more  time  the  rules  why  we had  to  do  this . Secondly  students  have  to  find  the  exhibits  ,that  we  have talked about  in the  classroom . If  our  students  are  teenagers , I think  it's better  to  inverstigate themselves  as  we  go  through  the  exhibits  in  order  to  find  the  exact  one .
Then  they  have  to  right  down  all  the  characteristics we  have  already  discussed  in  the classroom ,then  we  have  to  imagine  it  as  the artist  had  made  it ,their  original  form . We  may discuss  about  the environmental problems  that  causs  damages  in  the  statues .

2.3 After the museum visit

 

We have  visited  the folk museum in Velvento a place nearby Kozani,that  is  the capital of the north west region of Greece . Last  year  we were  dealing  with  a project about  silk clothes .First  the students  saw  the  exhibits  about  the production of silk thread that  is  come  from  the silk worms . Then  in the museum visited  us  two  old women  from  the  village ,they  brought  with  them  all  the  traditional  equipments and  teach  us  all  the process  from thread  to  cloth .