Independent Site Visits Elementary

Independent Site Visits Elementary

Grades:

A TRIP TO THE LONG ISLAND CHILDRENS MUSEUM'

Grade levels: 4th

LEARNING STANDARDS:
Using appropriate technology.
Relationships and common themes.

PRE VISIT activity
Busy Hands/Sensitive Hands/Smart Hands
-Your thumb does almost half the work for your hand. Try living without your thumb for a while. Tape thumbs firmly to the sides of your hands. Zip or button your jacket. Twist off a jam jar cap or a toothpaste cap. Write your
name or catch a ball.
-Your fingertips send messages, informing you if something is hot, cold, wet, dry, rough or smooth. Put a familiar object into a bag. Have child feel the object and describe its texture, shape, size to others. Have the students try
to guess what the object is. Try objects with different shapes and textures.
-Hands is good learners. Introduce finger game, string game, jacks. Your hands may not be able to do these games perfectly at first. But by repeating it a bunch of times, something strange happens. Your hands seem to take over
for your brain. Without thinking, you can do it.

QUESTIONS.
What tools do you use each day for writing/drawing, eating cleaning your teeth?
Can you communicate without your hands?

MATERIALS
Paper or plastic bag, different objects of different textures and sizes, Jacks game, string, pen and paper.

VISIT
The group will join the floor supervisor in the ProtoZone gallery for a short group orientation. Groups are then divided into smaller groups of 15-20 students are guided through the museum by trained staff.
During the tour have children focus on three major activities.
1. What if you couldn't?
Children can "experience" the challenges encountered by people with disabilities and learn more about their own senses in this exhibit developed at the Boston Children's Museum.
2. On Hands
Get your hands on an exhibit all about hands Examine your hands from the outside in, dress them up with puppets and gloves, and leave your hand prints behind.
3. Changes and challenges.
Focuses on disabilities awareness and engages students with hands on activities stations.

POST VISIT
1.Discuss your museum experience: What exhibits or ideas sparked your interest? What would like to learn more about? What steps can you take to get more information?
2. Using the American Sign Language or the manual Sign language Alphabet, practice your name, a song and tell a story.

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