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Lesson 1
Enjoying museums! • • • •
Explores museum cards. Uses multiple sources to research information about a topic. Analyzes informative text. Writes information in museum cards.
What are museums? 1.
Museums are important buildings that store and exhibit many different objects of great value. But how can visitors learn about the objects in a museum? How do museums provide information to visitors? Discuss your ideas with your group.
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There are different kinds of museums. Every object in a museum has an identification card. What information can you see on it? Read the following cards and decide which museums exhibit these objects. How can you tell?
Transport Museum
Anthropology Museum
Space Museum
A Coelacanth The first coelacanths lived on earth 350 million years ago, before the dinosaurs. Scientists thought that coelacanths were extinct. They thought had died out about 80 million years ago. However, in 1938 a fisherman found a live one off the coast of South Africa. The coelacanth is a living fossil.
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Work in small groups. Discuss: • • • •
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Natural History Museum
Read
Pairs
Art Museum
The Rocket was the world’s first passenger train. It was built in 1828 by George Stephenson, who couldn’t even read or write or write until he was eighteen. The Rocket was steam powered and could travel at 46 k.p.h.
Group
the importance of museums. why museum cards are necessary. what sort of information a museum card contains. what can you learn from museum cards.
Gathers information about a topic to make museum cards and set up an exhibition.
A pre-Columbian Mesoamerican artifact, this skull is carved out of quartz. Like other skulls from the Aztec and Mayan cultures, this skull was believed to have special powers.
