Event Registration

Description:

This is a virtual education program offered to school groups. It is taught by educators at the Mariner's Museum Museum in Newport News, VA. The event cost is per login, not per participant. Multiple children plus their parents can participate for a flat rate. This class will be taught live, online through a virtual classroom platform. Compass is registered as the school with the museum, and participants will receive reminders and login instructions from Compass, not from the museum.

Description from the Mariner's Museum website: What exactly is technology and where can we find it? By evaluating and "visually reading" a painting of the Sailmaker's Shop at Newport News Shipbuilding, students will be able to answer these questions and explore how paintings can teach us about the past while also displaying technology's continual state of change. In this visually engaging program, students will interpret data, timelines, and charts; compare and contrast artifacts and images; and understand the difference between low-tech and high-tech. At the program's conclusion, students will be tasked with finding an example of technology in their house or classroom and building a visual timeline of that object's change throughout history.

Note: Program content will be targeted to the 3rd-5th grade age range, but older and younger students will also enjoy the program and are welcome to attend. For families who track learning to state Standards of Learning, see the class description on the museum's webpage for standards covered.