Arts and Science miniMOOC: Museum resources for teaching Art and Science
Topic outline
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The origins of the Arts and Science MiniMOOC: What time is it?
Organisers and creators of this MiniMOOC: Valeria Greco, Palermo, Italy
Valeria Greco is a physicist and she likes to create activity involving different scientific disciplines.
Goals of the MiniMOOC: What time is it?
- soft skill: critical and innovative thinking, collaboration, communication
- hard skill: learning
to solve real-world problems through hands-on learning activities and creative
design.
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The goal in this part is to introduce the MiniMOOC to the participants with a general introduction to the course and a launching activity.
Scenario: to use a painting to observe the relationship between art and science.The role of teacher is that of “facilitator” (help with some tips without to give instructions to follow, like “can we use ourselves? Can we use something that has a relationship with length? What do you think about this?”)This is an example of an activity to do in art museum together with museum staff in order to give two different ways to observe a painting.Accessible for downland as example of activity- document for teachers in doc and in pdf
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Goal: students have to observe and analyze paintingScenario: context of painting
What teacher should expect to happen: students observe painting and recognize some details that help in the analyze of it
Scenario: place and time in the year
What teacher should expect to happen: students observe painting and analyze it from scientific view, describe the scene, locate the he place also respect cardinal points and investigate weather and time of day.
Accessible for download:
- documents for teachers in .doc and in .pdf
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Goals: students can get time from a painting from observation of it
Scenario: collect all informations from painting to try to guess what time is it in the painting
Students can work in group.
- documents for teachers in .doc and in .pdf
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This minimooc could be extended with building of a sundial. In this way minimooc embrace matemathics and technology.
Accessible for download:
- documents for teachers in doc and in pdf
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Goal: to measure students’ comprehension of the activity
Students have to describe activity in general, detailing all steps and what they built and how they did it.
Accessible for download:
- test for students self evaluation
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In this part, teachers can find some materials uploaded by the partners who were developing this miniMOOC.
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Presentation of the methodology used to create the MiniMOOC
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Let's talk about your impressions about the museums
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Let's talk about your impressions about the museums
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