1. ExperientialLearning
Utilizing Museum Education for Your Classroom
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3. Need to Know

4. CCSS/ 21st Century Skills
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9. HENRY S T R E E T S C H O O L
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1.Working as a team,
TASK discuss your selection
and agree to support
each other during a
Initial React
concluding reflective PROMPT ion - What is
conversation at the venue. your initial
reaction to th
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artifact, obje
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selected exhibit or particular structure?
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work. Individually select one first thing yo
Where does yo u notice?
work or area that speaks to ur eye go firs
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3. As a group, revisit each Look at the
date. When w
member’s selected art work, How does this as it made?
artifact, object, sculpture or inform your
interpretation
/understandi
structure. Share reasons why
What other la ng?
your selection appealed to you. bel informat
provide clues ion can
Once you’ve shared your to the work?
perceptions of the work, invite
group members to continue the Objective Obs
ervation - Su
conversation on your selection. judgment, co spending
nsider everyth
Repeat this process with each
in the work ing you see
group member until you’ve of art, artifa
sculpture or ct, object,
viewed and discussed each structure. Wh
selection. see? at do you
4. Finally, as a group, consider
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these questions as part of your bservation -
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final reflective conversation… u think ab ou
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make you feel
with a way to investigate the How would yo ?
world? u describe th
someone who is work to
• How has this experience helped has never seen
you to recognize that diverse it.
audiences may perceive
different meanings and
reactions when engaging with
the same work?
• How does the work communicate
ideas, feelings, or point of Metropolitan Museum of Art
view?
• How does the work creatively 1000 Fifth Avenue
and responsibly contribute to metmuseum.org
improvement locally, regionally
or globally?

10. Getting Started
Set Up Your Account
Go to Twitter.com #hssmet
Fill in the Full name, Email, and Password fields
Click “Sign up”
Verify your information
Select your preferred username
Click “Create my account”
Set Up Your Phone
Via the Internet on a smart phone or other handheld device
Connect to the Internet
Enter this address in your web browser: m.twitter.com
Follow the prompts to install the app on your device
If you don’t have apps on your phone, just sign in to the Twitter
website
Things To Learn How To Do
Before the expeditionary learning experience, you will want to figure
out how to do the following 6 things:
Note: The look and location of the buttons you will use to do these things will
vary depending on your device and whether you are using text messaging, an
app, or the mobile Twitter site.
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s:
1, M2, M3, 3. Follow someone – for example, you might want to follow
along Fift or M4 bus @AsiaSociety
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(from upt 4. Retweet someone else’s message – this indicates you agree with it
locations) own
to 82nd S and/or think it’s important, indicated by the abbreviation RT plus
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venue (fro long @username indicating whose message you are retweeting
locations) m downto
to 83rd St wn 5. Reply to someone (publicly) – use the @ symbol followed by their
reet. username (@username) in your tweet, this will allow readers to see
how your tweet connects back to what they said
6. Send a direct message (privately) – this allows you to send a
private message to someone you follow, as long as they follow you
back
Both @ replies and DM (direct messages) will show up in a special
list making it easier for the recipient to find them
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11. ISSN Monuments & Museums Learning Expedition
July 6, 2011
National Portrait Gallery
The Struggle for Justice
This permanent exhibition showcases major
cultural and political figures -- from key 19th-
century historical figures to contemporary leaders
-- who struggled to achieve
civil rights for
disenfranchised or
marginalized groups. On
view are more than 40
photographs, paintings,
posters, buttons, and
sculptures, including
portraits of Civil Rights
leaders Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall,
Martin Luther King Jr., and Andrew Young;
women's-rights advocates Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and Betty Friedan; Native American activist
Leonard Crow Dog; cultural icons Jackie Robinson
and singer Marian Anderson; United Farm Workers
organizer César Chávez; gay and lesbian rights
leaders; and Special Olympics founder Eunice
Kennedy Shriver
Location: 2nd Floor
Location
8th and F Sts., NW
Washington, DC
Metro Station
Gallery Place-Chinatown (9th St. exit)
www.si.edu/Museums/portrait-gallery

12. Task 101
1. Working as a team, discuss your selection and agree
to support each other during a concluding reflective Getting Started
conversation at the venue. Set Up Your Account
ISSN Monuments & Museums Learning Expedition Go to Twitter.com
2. Once at the venue, locate the selected exhibit or July 6, 2011 Fill in the Full name, Email, and Password fields
particular work. Individually select one work or area Click “Sign up”
that speaks to you emotionally, intellectually, Verify your information
spiritually and/or physically. Use the included Select your preferred username
prompts to stimulate your viewing experience. Tweet Prompts Click “Create my account”
your progress to #ISSN11.
Initial Reaction - What is your initial reaction to this
3. As a group, revisit each member’s selected art work, work of art, artifact, object, sculpture or structure? Set Up Your Phone
artifact, object, sculpture or structure. Share reasons What is the first thing you notice? Where does your eye Connect to the Internet
why your selection appealed to you. Once you’ve go first? Why? Go to: m.twitter.com
shared your perceptions of the work, invite group What do you find interesting about this work? What does Follow the prompts to install the app on your device
members to continue the conversation on your it say to you? If you don’t have apps on your phone, just sign in to
selection. Repeat this process with each group Twitter
member until you’ve viewed and discussed each The Label - Read the label. What is the title of the work?
selection. What does it tell you about the work?
Things To Learn How To Do
Look at the date. When was it made? How does this
inform your interpretation/understanding? Before the expeditionary learning experience, you will
4. Finally, as a group, consider these questions as part
of your final reflective conversation… What other label information can provide clues to the want to figure out how to do the following 6 things:
• How does the work provide you with a way to work?
investigate the world? Note: The look and location of the buttons you will use to
• How has this experience helped you to recognize Objective Observation - Suspending judgment, do these things will vary depending on your device and
that diverse audiences may perceive different consider everything you see in the work of art, artifact, whether you are using an app, or the mobile Twitter site.
meanings and reactions when engaging with the object, sculpture or structure. What do you see?
same work? 1. Send a Tweet – just type in the box, but remember you
• How does the work communicate ideas, feelings, or Subjective Observation - What does the work make only have 140 characters!
point of view? you think about? 2. Participate in a conversation using a hashtag – the
• How does the work creatively and responsibly How does it make you feel?
hashtag for this experience is #issn11
contribute to improvement locally, regionally or How would you describe this work to someone who has
• To follow the convo, just put the hashtag #issn11in the
globally? never seen it?
search box
• To add to the convo, include the hashtag #issn11 in
your tweet
3. Follow someone – for example, you might want to
follow @AsiaSociety
4. Retweet someone else’s message – this indicates you
agree with it and/or think it’s important, indicated by the
abbreviation RT plus @username indicating whose
message you are retweeting
5. Reply to someone (publicly) – use the @ symbol
followed by their username (@username) in your tweet,
this will allow readers to see how your tweet connects
back to what they said
6. Send a direct message (privately) – this allows you to
send a private message to someone you follow, as long
as they follow you back
Both @ replies and DM (direct messages) will show up in a
special list making it easier for the recipient to find them
#issn11 #issn11 #issn11

13. ISSN Monuments & Museums Learning Expedition
Monument or Museum/Exhibition ✓ ★
African Art Museum - Artists in Dialogue 2
African Art Museum - A Brave New World
African Art Museum - African Mosaic
Air and Space Museum - Self Guided
American Art Museum - To Make a World: George Ault & 1940s
America
American Art Museum - Modern & Contemporary Art
American History Museum - Self Guided
American Indian Museum - Vantage Point: The contemporary
Native Art Collection
Hirshhorn Museum - Black Box: Laurent Grasso
Hirshhorn Museum - Directions: GraziaToderi
National Building Museum - Walls Speak
National Gallery of Art - American Art, Galleries 62 - 71
National Gallery of Art - Lewis Baltz: Prototypes
National Portrait Gallery - Americans Now
National Portrait Gallery - 150th Commemoration of the Civil War:
The Death of Ellsworth
National Portrait Gallery - The Struggle for Justice
Newseum - Self Guided
Arthur M. Sackler - Buddhist Caves
Arthur M. Sackler - Perspectives
FDR Memorial
Vietnam War Veterans & Korean War Veterans Memorials
World War II Veterans Memorial

14. Monuments and Museums Reflection Protocol
Introduction
We make meaning of our experiences through reflection and the sharing of stories. We
create possibilities for innovative practice in our schools and classrooms when we share
our discoveries in a climate that suspends judgement, cynicism and doubt and
encourages connections between ideas and diverse perspectives while honoring
everyone's contribution.
This 25-minute reflection session provides us with an opportunity to debrief yesterday's
Monuments and Museums Learning Expedition in small groups, and share in a
collective harvest of discoveries and new possibilities for classroom practice.
The protocol includes two rounds of questions and a final large group sharing.
Form groups of between 5 - 8 people who were not in your Learning Expedition team
yesterday or from your school.
Round 1 (8 minutes)
In your groups (5 - 8 people) have each person respond to the following questions.
Remember to include everyone’s contribution. Be mindful of the time.
What had real meaning for you during yesterday's Monuments and Museums
Learning Expedition? What surprised you? What challenged you?
Round 2 (8 minutes)
Now, as a small group, answer the following question.
How will yesterday’s experience create new possibilities (tasks, activities,
learning expeditions) for you and your students?
Remind participants that each table will share 1 or 2 new possibilities during the final
harvest.
Harvest (6 minutes)
Have a representative from each table share discoveries and new possibilities with the
entire group. Encourage participants to tweet their ideas to #issn11.
Please remember... This reflection must conclude at 8:55 a.m. The presenters of
the concurrent sessions are scheduled to begin promptly at 9 a.m.