Investigating Virtual MUSEUMS Around the World

As we look at different ways to share our civilization artifacts in a virtual museum, we want you to explore different virtual museums from around the world.

From the links below ↓, you will choose at least two virtual museums to explore. They offer 360° tours, interactive displays, videos, podcasts and more. Click around your chosen museums to find the different techniques they use to inform, share experiences and engage their audience.

Virtual Museum Links:

• Smithsonian, Washington, DC 🔗

• J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 🔗

• The British Museum, London 🔗

• Vatican Museums, Rome 🔗

• Guggenheim, Bilbao 🔗

• NASA, CA 🔗

• Natural History Museum, London 🔗

• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 🔗

• National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea 🔗

• Musee d’Orsay, Paris 🔗

• MASP, Sao Paulo, Brazil 🔗

• Anthropology National Museum, Mexico City 🔗

Kitchen Chemistry: Unraveling the mysteries of home cooking through science

Serious Eats: The Food Lab Link 🔗

Food and Cooking Chemistry Link 🔗

Want to learn some chemistry? Look no further than your kitchen! Since we're all quarantined at home, what better time to experiment with a new recipe or cook an old favorite to provide some comfort. Believe it or not, much of cooking and baking is rooted in the science of chemistry.

Here's what you will do:

• Cook or bake a favorite recipe or find a new recipe that you'd like to try.

• Document your time in the kitchen through a series of pictures or take a short video.

• Check out the link (or any other resource you find) to see if you can figure out if there's any chemistry involved in your recipe.

• Come to our science meeting ready to share what you made!

Virtual Trips to China

Xian City Tour Video Link 🔗

Historical Tour of China (Beijing, Luoyang, Xi'an) Link 🔗

Museum of Qin Terracotta Virtual Tour Link 🔗

First, watch each of the short videos and visit the museum link above ↑.

As you watch and visit, take some notes about what interests you most.

• Where do you want to visit? And why?

• What food do you want to try?

• Finally, how do you say the above things in Chinese?

Art Up Close

Google Arts & Culture: Art Camera Link 🔗

Did you catch that? Click the link above and scroll through this collection of paintings to take a closer look and details and brushstrokes. Sometimes artists hide things in paintings - like easter eggs in a movie - for viewers to find.

Choose 3 artworks that draw your attention.

Spend time looking through all the details and learning about the story behind them.

• What draws you to them?

• What to they have in common?

• How do different artists use different techniques?

• Are you inspired to make artwork of your own?

Broadway World: Puffs play

Broadway World: Puffs Play Link 🔗

The provided link will take you to Broadway World, a streaming site for plays! Because we are all working on our own plays, you will be watching "Puffs". You will need to click the log-in button in the upper-right corner and use the username and password provided above ↑.

Play Synopsis: For seven years a certain boy wizard went to a certain Wizard School and conquered evil. This, however, is not his story. This is the story of the Puffs... who just happened to be there, too. A tale for anyone who has never been destined to save the world.

Questions for you as the viewer:

• How does seeing this particular play inspire you as a playwright?

• Did you find anything surprising about the content?

Let's meet up over Spring Break and chat about it!!

A Virtual Tour of the Seven Seas

This American Life: I Am Not A Pirate Link 🔗

Click on the link above and listen to each of the three parts (the Prologue, Act I, and Act II) of this podcast. Scroll down the page to see all three parts. You can download the transcript to read along while you listen.

After each part, write a SIT: something that surprised you, something that interested you, and something that troubled you.

Bring your SITs to our class meeting to discuss.

Geometry, It’s Elementary, My Dear Students, Or Is It?

Euclid's Elements of Geometry PDF Link 🔗

The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid PDF Link 🔗

The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols Link 🔗

The Digital Universe Link 🔗

Around 300 BCE, Euclid wrote a book called Elements, which includes his definitions and theorems regarding plane geometry. The book actually consisted of thirteen books. Apparently, thirteen was Euclid’s lucky number. Plane geometry occupies books 1-4 and 6. Here’s a link to an English translation of the Elements with a Greek version, which Euclid used, in side-by-side comparison: Euclid's Elements of Geometry 🔗

In 1847, Oliver Bryne publish a colorful rendition of the first six books of Euclid’s Elements. Here’s a link to a pdf of the book: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid 🔗

Now, an interactive version of Byrne’s book has been put online: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols Link 🔗

In this virtual field trip, you will explore Euclid’s Elements, primarily Book 1.

First, enter Book 1. Then scan over the definitions, postulates, axioms, and elucidations. You’ll notice that “s” and “c” at times have different scripts than today. That’s because Bryne wrote in the middle of the nineteenth century and languages and scripts evolve over time. You should also recognize that much in the definitions, postulates, axioms, and elucidations has come up in our class. Also, note that if you click on a drawing in the text, it will isolate it in the nearby diagram. If you click on the diagram, it will return to full presence. While scanning, note anything in these sections that stands out to you.

Now, consider Proposition 1, the first proof. It demonstrates how to construct an equilateral triangle. Read through the demonstration. Notice how clever Euclid is. He constructs circles with the same radius but has them intersect with the other circle’s center. That forces all the sides of the triangle to be radii of the two circles with equal radii. Thus, it creates an equilateral triangle. The text in parentheses notes the justification for a step and refers back to prior definitions, postulates, axioms, and propositions. However, the creativity comes from realizing to draw the circles they way he did. That’s what makes him a mathematician and not merely a logician. Mathematics equals reason plus imagination, rationality plus creativity.

Next, consider Proposition IV. It’s the first theorem. It’s a proof that SAS shows congruence. Read through it. What was the insight that Euclid based his proof on? This is like drawing the two circles to demonstrate Proposition 1, but here it’s a different inventive move. Notice, the rules of logic and reason are the same, but the creative move is different. What was it?

Next, consider Proposition V. It’s the second theorem. It’s a proof that an isosceles triangle has equal base angle. It’s a different proof than the one we used in class because Euclid hasn’t yet shown how to bisect an angle. He shows that in Proposition IX. Here, he uses Proposition IV or SAS twice. To follow the proof, it helps to click on the images to see the steps by which he constructs the main diagram. Again, try to identify the creative insights Euclid had that allowed him to create this proof based on SAS.

Now, spend some time looking through Book 1 and the other Books. See if you can identify a proof for a theorem that we have covered in class, such as parallel line and transversals, and see if you can understand Euclid’s proof.

Once you finish that go to go to the Digital Universe 🔗

Play The Known Universe. You will travel from Earth to the end of the known universe and back with everything to scale. Make any connections you can to mathematics and bring them to the discussion. But, really, this is just here because it’s cool.

Visit important landmarks of Latin America

Join Nearpod Presentation Link 🔗

Click the link to the Nearpod presentation. Join the self-paced session using your name. Explore the different important landmarks of Latin America! When we join for our discussion, let's discuss what you saw.

The Apollo Navigation Computer

Apollo Space Program Video Link 🔗

Watch the video from the link above ↑. In this video they talk about the creation of the computer that helped the Apollo spacecraft travel to and from the Moon.

While watching the video listen for particular points at which they talk about "writing" the program the computer uses.

• How does this differ from the way we write programs today?

• Can you think of anything that is still the same about computers since the 1960's?

NOCAL Art Adventure / San Francisco

de Young Museum Link 🔗

SFMOMA Museum Link 🔗

Asian Art Museum Link 🔗

Choose one (or more) of these three great art museums of San Francisco. Navigate the website(s) spending at least 20 minutes exploring the exhibits.

Make note of your three of the works of art you discover.

• What do those three pieces have in common?

• How are they different?

• What do those similarities and differences?

• Tell us about the artist that created them?

Please capture each of the three images you prefer so we can all see what your discovered!

Teaching with Testimony

Teaching with Testimony Link 🔗

In order to wrap up our Anne Frank unit in the Performing Arts class, you will do a virtual field trip through the USC Shoah Foundation. Once you are on the link, click on the video of "Our Stories are Stronger than Hate". You will see the testimony of survivors and witnesses of genocide, as well as from other young people around the country who have experienced hate.

As you watch, you should think about the emotions you feel, consider questions you have, and think about connections you can make both to the storytellers, the events they describe, and the personal details they share.

Civil War Battle Sites

Google Presentation Link 🔗

Open the Google Presentation. In this presentation you will find virtual tours and exhibit links for six famous Civil War battles. You will explore at least two of these virtual tours and exhibit links listed. As you explore, you will take notes on a Google Doc that you will turn in to your teacher via Google Classroom after spring break.

Geometry, It’s Elementary, My Dear Students, Or Is It?

Euclid's Elements of Geometry PDF Link 🔗

The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid PDF Link 🔗

The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols Link 🔗

The Digital Universe Link 🔗

Around 300 BCE, Euclid wrote a book called Elements, which includes his definitions and theorems regarding plane geometry. The book actually consisted of thirteen books. Apparently, thirteen was Euclid’s lucky number. Plane geometry occupies books 1-4 and 6. Here’s a link to an English translation of the Elements with a Greek version, which Euclid used, in side-by-side comparison: Euclid's Elements of Geometry 🔗

In 1847, Oliver Bryne publish a colorful rendition of the first six books of Euclid’s Elements. Here’s a link to a pdf of the book: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid 🔗

Now, an interactive version of Byrne’s book has been put online: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols Link 🔗

In this virtual field trip, you will explore Euclid’s Elements, primarily Book 1.

First, enter Book 1. Then scan over the definitions, postulates, axioms, and elucidations. You’ll notice that “s” and “c” at times have different scripts than today. That’s because Bryne wrote in the middle of the nineteenth century and languages and scripts evolve over time. You should also recognize that much in the definitions, postulates, axioms, and elucidations has come up in our class. Also, note that if you click on a drawing in the text, it will isolate it in the nearby diagram. If you click on the diagram, it will return to full presence. While scanning, note anything in these sections that stands out to you.

Now, consider Proposition 1, the first proof. It demonstrates how to construct an equilateral triangle. Read through the demonstration. Notice how clever Euclid is. He constructs circles with the same radius but has them intersect with the other circle’s center. That forces all the sides of the triangle to be radii of the two circles with equal radii. Thus, it creates an equilateral triangle. The text in parentheses notes the justification for a step and refers back to prior definitions, postulates, axioms, and propositions. However, the creativity comes from realizing to draw the circles they way he did. That’s what makes him a mathematician and not merely a logician. Mathematics equals reason plus imagination, rationality plus creativity.

Next, consider Proposition IV. It’s the first theorem. It’s a proof that SAS shows congruence. Read through it. What was the insight that Euclid based his proof on? This is like drawing the two circles to demonstrate Proposition 1, but here it’s a different inventive move. Notice, the rules of logic and reason are the same, but the creative move is different. What was it?

Next, consider Proposition V. It’s the second theorem. It’s a proof that an isosceles triangle has equal base angle. It’s a different proof than the one we used in class because Euclid hasn’t yet shown how to bisect an angle. He shows that in Proposition IX. Here, he uses Proposition IV or SAS twice. To follow the proof, it helps to click on the images to see the steps by which he constructs the main diagram. Again, try to identify the creative insights Euclid had that allowed him to create this proof based on SAS.

Now, spend some time looking through Book 1 and the other Books. See if you can identify a proof for a theorem that we have covered in class, such as parallel line and transversals, and see if you can understand Euclid’s proof.

Once you finish that go to go to the Digital Universe 🔗

Play The Known Universe. You will travel from Earth to the end of the known universe and back with everything to scale. Make any connections you can to mathematics and bring them to the discussion. But, really, this is just here because it’s cool.

Visit important landmarks of Latin America

Join Nearpod Presentation Link 🔗

Click the link to the Nearpod presentation. Join the self-paced session using your name. Explore the different important landmarks of Latin America! When we join for our discussion, let's discuss what you saw.

The Apollo Navigation Computer

Apollo Space Program Video Link 🔗

Watch the video from the link above ↑. In this video they talk about the creation of the computer that helped the Apollo spacecraft travel to and from the Moon.

While watching the video listen for particular points at which they talk about "writing" the program the computer uses.

• How does this differ from the way we write programs today?

• Can you think of anything that is still the same about computers since the 1960's?

NOCAL Art Adventure / San Francisco

de Young Museum Link 🔗

SFMOMA Museum Link 🔗

Asian Art Museum Link 🔗

Choose one (or more) of these three great art museums of San Francisco. Navigate the website(s) spending at least 20 minutes exploring the exhibits.

Make note of your three of the works of art you discover.

• What do those three pieces have in common?

• How are they different?

• What do those similarities and differences?

• Tell us about the artist that created them?

Please capture each of the three images you prefer so we can all see what your discovered!

Teaching with Testimony

Teaching with Testimony Link 🔗

In order to wrap up our Anne Frank unit in the Performing Arts class, you will do a virtual field trip through the USC Shoah Foundation. Once you are on the link, click on the video of "Our Stories are Stronger than Hate". You will see the testimony of survivors and witnesses of genocide, as well as from other young people around the country who have experienced hate.

As you watch, you should think about the emotions you feel, consider questions you have, and think about connections you can make both to the storytellers, the events they describe, and the personal details they share.