Preserving History

Preparation

Students are expected to:

• Have some background in viewing youtube videos in Augmented Reality (AR) on the mobile devices

Teachers should make sure that:

• Devices are charged
• Devices have access to YouTube
• Students are divided into pairs or groups depending how many devices are available
• Slide Deck has been checked and teacher has accessibility
• A copy of the Student Digital Notebook has been distributed to students and they have downloaded/ made a copy for themselves

Learning Sequence

• Discuss with students – “Who has been to a museum before? What did you see?”
  
• Ask the students to consider and discuss with a partner;
  • What is the purpose of a museum? 
  • Why do we have them?”
• Complete a Think, Pair, Share on these questions in their Student Digital Notebook
• Ask the students to reflect in their Student Digital Notebook;
  • Why do we feel a need to preserve history? 
  • What can we gain from learning about ancient civilisations?
• Ask students to access the Civilisations AR app on their devices and follow the prompts in the Preserving History: Digital Field Notes Presentation to set up.
  
• Direct students to access the Hippo Bowl.
  In their pairs, students are to view the object only and complete a See, Think, Wonder on the artifact in their Student Digital Notebook.
  
• Once completed, ask students to read the information in pairs about the hippo bowl – are there any connections to their see, think, wonder notes?
  Complete a Connect Extend Challenge in their Student Digital Notebook on the information they have read.
  
• In the same pairs/ groups allow students to explore other artifacts in the app.
  • If focusing on Mediterranean worlds, direct students to particularly the following artifacts to investigate:
    • Corinthian Helmet
    • Rosetta Stone
    • Mummy Egyptian Coffin
    • Titus Flavius Demetrius
    • Red-Figure Neck Amphora
    • Horus the Child
      
• Ask students to reflect on the following in their Student Digital Notebook for each artifact they view;
  • Describe the artifact (What do you see?)
  • Why would we preserve this artifact?
  • What can we learn or gain to learn from this artifact?
  • List 3 interesting facts about this artifact from the information provided

• Ask students to complete the following sentence in their Student Digital Notebook:
  • • I used to think ___________ about the purpose of museums and preserving history, and now I think ____________ because ______________

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