Science Museum of London- *Virtual Visit*

The Science Museum in London has lots of useful information to offer for educators. I love the idea of the CPD training. Where for a day teachers go in and they get all kinds of experience through presentations, galleries, and resources. I love the share your experiences and ideas with other teachers because we all have one huge thing in common. We are all educators so what better way to get information from someone in the same field as you. Sometimes many teachers feel as though they didn’t get enough information in college to be prepared in the actual classroom. I have heard from many teachers that the information taught, is nothing like what you will be using. This Science Museum has you try out classroom activities and how it is prepared and done. Many of us do this on a trial and error bases but if we can learn the right way to do it so when we do it with our children the first time, you will be better prepared and knowledgeable. I don’t really know of any museums that do this other than give tours of their museum. Just a little quick note, teachers are able to get into the Imax for free. Yayy! Not that I would be visiting anytime soon but just a bonus.

Also available are classroom resources by stages. Basically this this separated by age groups. Each different age group learns something different. For example, I am teaching second grade, so I would choose stage two, which is age levels 7-11. There are various tabs to choose from including:

·      Electricity and Magnetism

·      Forces and Motion

·      Light

·      Materials

·      Sounds

Each tab has a fun activity to do with your class. What I find really neat is many of these activities I have never seen before. I guess it is all because it’s from another continent across the world. I think my favorite would have to be the materials tab. One example activity from the materials tab was soap challenge. All you do is remold a basically looking bar of soap into an attractive new shape that can still be used in the bathroom.

          So would I call this site a hit with educators and students? I sure would! Very nice and will also be adding it to my delicious account. Yay for finding another great site that is useful for many things.