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