MuseumProject

Historical Fiction Museum Project
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DAY ONE: Finding Your Artifacts and Museum Pieces
Searching for **Primary Sources**

Why go through the work of finding primary sources? What type of materials do you want for this project? How will you organize your findings with the others in your group?


 * Strategies for Planning Your Search:**
 * 1) Read the Author's Note
 * 2) Develop a list of historical events and people
 * 3) Build your KEYWORDS and think about the types of sources that would represent the events and people in your book and historical period.


 * Places to Search**
 * [|Docs Teach] - Resources from the National Archives. Choose a period of history to find selected resources from the archives.
 * Feeling brave? Venture into the [|National Archives] to search.
 * [|American Memory Collection] from the Library of Congress.
 * [|Smithsonian Source] - primary documents in history from the Smithsonian collection.
 * [|Digital Public Library Archive] - use the limiters on the left side of the page to choose format.
 * [|Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive]

BUILD your search thoughtfully and look CAREFULLY at your results.
 * Searching the Web**
 * [|Sweet Search]
 * [|Google]

[|Beach Park Middle School Library]
 * Finding Realia**

DAY TWO: Building Your Exhibits
You want your exhibit to be interactive in nature AND you'll want to include a tech component. Your exhibit should be a hybrid experience - part real object and part virtual.

Some possible tools
 * [|QR Codes]
 * [|E-maze] - Choose Landscape Art Template for the art gallery look
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 * [|MoveNote] - Lets you add video narration to a slide show
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 * Aurasma App - There is a bit of a learning curve, but the result is pretty amazing! - on the iPads.
 * [|ThingLink] - Lets you make an image interactive.
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