Discovery is pleased to extend educators a special offer for your student groups to the Discovery Times Square Exposition in NYC now featuring Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition and Da Vinci’s Workshop: Inventor, Artist, Dreamer.
- Student Tickets just $14 plus receive 1 free chaperon ticket with every 10 tickets purchased
- Free downloadable teachers guides including comprehensive lesson plans correlated to the state academic content standards
- Customized on-site activities for post-exhibit add-ons available for all grade levels
- Excellent teaching opportunity for History, Social Studies, Language, Arts, Math and Science.
DA VINCI’S WORKSHOP: Inventor, Artist, Dreamer
Inspire a whole new generation of genius in this all-new exhibition which brings Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions to life with full scale, interactive models. Find out how Da Vinci’s vision for an airplane, automobile and bridge would have worked – long before they became the modern worlds’ reality. Plus, uncover the translations and hidden meanings of the masterminds’ paintings, sketches and notebooks through virtual and interactive touch-screen panels. Discover the mind of a genius in this limited, world premier engagement. Nov. 20, 2009 - Apr. 4, 2010
TITANIC: The Artifact Exhibition
This educational exhibition allows your students to discover how the “unsinkable” Ship met its fate. Connect with passengers and crew through haunting personal stories and real artifacts recovered from the wreck site. Your group will explore magnificent re-creations of the Ship’s interiors, including passenger cabins and the renowned Grand Staircase. View never-before-seen treasures and the largest collection of Titanic artifacts ever assembled. Now through Feb. 28, 2010
For more information or to make your reservation, visit www.DiscoveryTSX.com or call 866.9.NYCTIX
9. The digital treats you’ll take away won’t cause cavities.
8. You can attend in your pajamas (virtually or in-person, we’re flexible).
7. Two full hours of the soothing sounds of Justin Karkow Can I Help You With That? The Student as Collaborator, Creator and Director (9 AM and 3 PM ET)
6. A chance to win a HD Flip Cam for dressing up as your favorite Discovery personality
5. Brand new interstitials
4. Any time Steve Dembo uses the word “bling” in a presentation, watch out! Putting the Bling in Your Builders (12 PM ET)
3. The archived sessions just don’t have the same pizazz.
2. Amazing professional development for the very reasonable price of…FREE.
“What if your students could experience the nation’s capital through the eyes of a National Geographic explorer, scientist, or photojournalist? They might capture the character of the city through a camera’s lens or interview a park ranger and get his perspective on preserving our national monuments.”
Middle School and High School classes have an opportunity to take an all-expenses paid trip to Washington, D.C. with National Geographic. Find out more here.
The Northern New York Library Network is hosting a 2009 Conference: “Choices & Challenges” on October 5 and 6, 2009 at the Cheel Center, Clarkson University, Potsdam. The special pricing for all attendees is $40.00 for the entire conference, or $25.00 per day.
There are sessions about Digitization, gaming, and Digitizing History. To find out more, go to the NNYLN website.
Attention Long Island and NYC educators! Mark your calendars! Western Suffolk BOCES will be hosting a Day of Discovery on October 6, 2009! Please see the attached PDF for more details on the sessions and how you can register for this event!
Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Welcome to the World of Socialnomics. How do you think this impacts teaching and learning in the 21st Century?
*Originally Written and Posted on the DEN blog by Steve Dembo
We’ve been busy converting and uploading all the archives from our incredible Summer School webinar series. While we still have quite a few to go, nearly half the webinars have been posted and are ready for you to download and share them with others!
As they get converted, we’re posting them here, so check it out and let us know what you thought of the series!
Are you going to be in the city on Friday, September 11th? It is the perfect opportunity to join the Cricket and KatyDid crawl. Check out the specifics found on the Living the Scientific Life Blog.
As the blog explains, “The Cricket and Katydid Crawl of New York City and surrounding areas is a citizen science project in which participants will venture out between dusk and midnight to locations of their choosing throughout the NYC metro area to listen for the calls of crickets and katydids and document their observations.”
Enjoy this fun activity with your class, your family, other DEN members. And don’t forget to blog about it.
Thinking about taking your class on a field trip into Manhattan to see The Bodies Exhibit?
“This educational exhibition showcases real, whole body specimens along with authentic individual organs; some healthy, some diseased. These real human bodies have been meticulously dissected, preserved through an innovative process and respectfully presented, giving visitors the opportunity to view the beauty and complexity of their own organs and systems.”*
You now have an opportunity to see the exhibit first - for free, of course. You can choose either September 24th or September 25th. Click here to register.
VoiceThread has some exciting news about a new feature.
“Over 700,000 historical images from The New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery are now freely and instantly available whenever you’re creating a VoiceThread. The new Media Browser allows you to search or browse these primary source materials - maps, photos, drawings, paintings, posters and more, and then import them directly into any VoiceThread. Links back to the original location of the images on the web are automatically inserted to make citing and attribution easier for you and your students.” You can find this new feature here.
For those of you not familiar with VoiceThread, it is a fabulous tool that enables collaboration through voice, video, and/or text on any topic you might desire. Using images from Discovery Streaming, the Internet, student created, and now The New York Public Library, you can create some amazing learning activities for your classroom.
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