Egypt Museum Project Reflection

How might you create an interactive exhibit that will encourage young visitors to care about the civilization of Ancient Egypt?

How well did you feel that you as an individual and as a group-member were at solving this problem?

I think my group and I did well in thinking of an interactive exhibit that will encourage young visitors to care about the civilization of Ancient Egypt, because we all had a wide variety of different interactive exhibit ideas. I let our visitors use my 'reed pens' and write in hieroglyphs, and another person in my group taught them how to play senet. Over all, I think we all had a fun, interactive way of teaching others about our artifacts, and about Ancient Egypt.

Describe your learning process from start to end... an an individual, and as a group-member.

First I was assigned my characteristic, which was technology, and I made MIDAS notes on the topic of technology. Then I picked an artifact that somehow represented technology - I chose the scribal palette. My group members and I then researched our artifacts in books and online, and after that we made MIDAS notes on our artifacts too. Next we made slides answering questions about our artifacts, and we figured out the interactive elements for Museum Day. Then we finally made our artifacts and we wrote a paragraph caption. We also continuously practiced what to say to our visitors, and before the actual Museum Day, we presented our artifacts to our class. 

What are aspect(s) of the project challenged you the most?

An aspect of the project that really challenged me was researching the scribal palette. I barely found good information in books, so I referred mostly to websites (like museum websites). I also found it hard to think of interesting facts to add while speaking to my audience.

What are you most proud of?

I am most proud of how smoothly Museum Day went, and how as a group we worked pretty well together. I am also very proud of my interactive element, and I how the visitors enjoyed figuring out how to write in hieroglyphs with the reed pens (that surprisingly worked pretty well).

What part(s) of the overall experience do you think you will remember the most?

I think I will remember Museum Day the most, because it was the big, actual event we had been preparing for. I also think I will remember the process my group and I went through (lots of disagreements) to be very successful during the class presentations and Museum Day.

The Lyre (Mesopotamia Contributions)

Here's a link of my website I made for Social Studies about the Lyres of Ur:
http://park35256.wix.com/the-lyre

Social Studies Stations - World World 2

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Push and Pull Assignment Reflection

We had to complete an assignment for Social Studies on the push/pull factors for Singapore and American history. We did this using resources in class, and Google Maps. Some new skills I learned were how to use Google Maps, and how to make my assignment pretty by changing the colors.
An interesting piece of information I learned was where the Chinese stayed in Singapore. I think this is interesting because I thought Chinatown is called Chinatown because they sold Chinese things, not because that's where the Chinese people lived!
A similarity I found between Singapore's and America's history was: A lot of reasons people left their home was because of the lack of safety.
If I had to do this again, I would remember to do my homework!

Push and Pull Factors Social Studies

Old Supreme Court Timeline

My Journey to Singapore

Comparison of USA/Singapore Push and Pull Factors

Jon Cooper - Archaeologist

Today we watched Mr. Jon Cooper.
I learned a lot about Singapore's history, and many things that happened 70 years ago. I enjoyed learning about Singapore's history because before the session with Mr. Cooper, I didn't know anything about the POW places, and before, I didn't know about the Lost Shinto Shrine.
The most interesting thing I found out was about the [not really] Lost Shinto Shrine.
Something I can use to help me in my research is the different ways of getting information. Mr. Cooper taught us many different ways of finding what you want.

Questions I have for Mr. Cooper about World War 2 in Singapore:

1. If the POW snuck in ceiling fans, how did they get them going?
2. When did the physical fighting start in WW2?
3. Who started the war? 

Push / Pull Factory

Advice to Everyone

Today my class were split into groups to find out whether the sites we were given were real, or fake. Here's what we did (in order):

• First we researched the people/person who made the blog, for my blog, the author is Lyle Zapato. Here's what you should do:
• Find the author's name.
• Find out what makes the author an expert.
• See if there's grammar or spelling errors.
• See if you can contact the author.
• Then we found out if the information can be trusted.
• Is the website for profit?
• Can you find the same information in other places?
• Is the author trying to persuade you? Strong wording.
• It this site/article up to date?
• Can you find the date of the site/article?
• When was the site/article last revised?
• Do the links work?
• Will this site have the information I need?
• Does the information answer my research question?
• Is the site easy to navigate?
• Is there useful information for students?

Here are the phony websites we researched:

• All About Explorers
• Improbable Research
• Aluminum Beanies
• The Jackalope
• Molossia