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A Journey Through The Museums at The Crossroads Workbook Project Museums at the Crossroads Consortium, Champaign County, Illinois |
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How many different museums have you been to? What have you learned? What do you still want to know? |
| By clicking on the images on the signposts below, you will begin a journey that spans time, distance, and species. You will learn, among other things, how a spacesuit works, why gorillas are endangered, and how to look at art in a new and exciting way. Come discover why museums are interesting and fun places to be! |
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This website was produced as an online workbook companion to the CD-ROM Museums Rule. In the CD-ROM groups of children explore eight different kinds of museums and the objects and activities they can find there. Museums Rule was created by the Museums at the Crossroads Consortium, a group of museums in Champaign County, Illinois. Through this workbook, the themes of the CD-ROM are expanded in lessons that can be enjoyed online or taught in the classroom. The lessons are independent of each other, and you do not need the Museums Rule CD-ROM to use them. Though constructed for students from 3rd to 5th grade, the lessons can easily be adapted to other grade levels. Each lesson is available in one or two parts: the Teacher's Byway, which contains suggested lesson plans and objectives, and/or the Kid's Expressway, a direct route to the activities. Copies of the Museums Rule CD-ROM and further information about the Consortium are available by contacting the Museums at the Crossroads office at orpheum@shout.net , Museums at the Crossroads, 346 N. Neil, Champaign, IL, 61820 or (217) 352-5895. The cost of the CD-ROM is $3.50 to cover shipping and handling. |
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Return to Museums at the Crossroads Home Page Illinois State Board of Education: Museums In the Classrooms Grant. © Copyright 1999 Museums at the Crossroads Consortium. All rights reserved. |