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**Check out:** museum box

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**Description:** About museumbox...If you could put a number of items into a box that described your life, what would you include? What do you think would be included if you were a Victorian Servant or Queen Elizabeth I. If you lived during the English Civil War, what items would you include to make a case for, or against, the parliamentarians? And what if you were an abolitionist and wanted to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary, how would you create your evidence. ** So what does museumbox do? ** museumbox provides the tools for you to do just this. It allows you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view the museum boxes submitted by other people and comment on the contents. "Museum Box." //Museum Box Homepage//. Web. 20 Mar. 2011. [].

**How I've used it:** I have not used museum box in the classroom ...YET. I have played with the web site and WILL use it next year to do projects in all of my history classes. (I teach Juniors and do not have computers.)

**How you might use it:** museum box can be used in all subject areas at Northern Vance High School...although math will be tricky. For Example: English: take apart stories and create levels to help with critical thinking skills blending words, pictures, and video Social Studies: take apart a historical event or document and help students to create cause and effect layers Science: build boxes that show and tell why volcanoes erupt, why the earths plates move, how chemicals form and react to each other, or how fragile the environment is Health: create boxes that deal with nutrition...proper nutrition and exercise vs. poor nutrition and lack of exercise And so on...

**Miscellaneous:** museum box allows teachers to approve, reject, edit, and delete boxes by students before they can be posted. Northern Vance is already registered for museum box. If you want an account just let me know and all I have to do is register you for our school. After you are registered you can create student accounts...museum box is **FREE**.

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