Virtual Live Museum on the Move Topics
If you have remote learners or just prefer a virtual experience, we’re happy to conduct your Museum on the Move visit by Zoom or Google Meet! These classes were specially developed over the past year to engage students with high-quality 3D scans of museum specimens on their individual devices.
- Program Length: 60 minutes
- Fee: Free for Utah Public Schools
- When: Schools contacted on 3-year rotation
- Topics: Choose from these unique, core-aligned topics
- Adaptations: Structure, Function, Survival! The body parts, structures, of animals and plants are how they get the food they need to function. Investigate with us, how do some of our native birds use their structures? Do our birds have the structures to help them survive and thrive?
- Fossils: Whose Fossil is This? Step into the shoes of a paleontologist and unravel the mystery of an unknown fossil. Observe two fossils belonging to one animal and infer their anatomical structure and function. Compare to modern animal bones and deduce the fossil’s diet and lifestyle and their closest modern relatives. Be prepared to update your inferences and ideas as new information is unraveled!
- Problem Solving in Place: Utah’s People and Culture. Understand how geography affects the ways people live in an environment and how the objects made by Utah’s tribes utilizing natural resources have specific functions that solve survival problems. Identify and make a plan to solve some problems yourself, and develop a deeper understanding of Utah’s people and culture that have been here for hundreds of years!
When you're on rotation, we'll reach out to schedule your visit. We use the teacher contacts listed on school websites, so the best way to help us reach you is to ensure those contact lists are up to date!