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Teacher: Edward T. Shy, Carole L. Hamilton and Matthew K. Gardzina
Principal: Don Berger |
Cary Academy
Cary, North Carolina
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Seventh-grade students and their teachers at Cary Academy in Cary, North Carolina designed a virtual museum based on the Crystal Palace that hosted The Great Exhibition of 1851. Designed and built to demonstrate the best and most beautiful products of Great Britain's Industrial Age, the exhibition displayed items from all corners of the world. Looking through the glass windows of the Crystal Palace offered Cary Academy's seventh-graders a opportunity to learn about the decisive changes of the Victorian Age- technology, empires, social values, and ideas-that gave birth to the modern world.
The organization of the Web site reflects that of the Crystal Palace itself: a series of virtual curio collections corresponding to the items in the 1851 exhibit. Visitors click thumbnail versions of images from the original catalogue to view student descriptions, essays, and commentaries written from the perspective of an adopted Victorian identity. The site also includes original student political cartoons, an email interview with a Victorian scholar from Stanford University, and a resource page for teachers. Students used the Internet to research the Great Exhibition, their Victorian identities, and Victorian history. Overall, students effectively use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences in order to enhance their understanding of various historical periods.
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