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Rootstown Second Graders Explore Historic Fashions at the Kent State Museum
The Rootstown second graders started their morning in the AT&T Classroom using the Word Cloud tool at the ABCya website to create a word cloud of their spelling/vocabulary words. A word cloud is a visual representation of terms/words that are related to a specific concept. The ABCya website offers a tool specifically designed for children for creating word clouds. The tool offers several different templates and colors for fonts and backgrounds to allow students to customize their cloud.
Later this morning the second graders walked to the Kent State Museum housed in the Fashion School in Rockwell Hall. Comprised of eight galleries, the Kent State Museum holds one of the most comprehensive teaching collections of fashionable design from the 18th century to the present. The Museum is able to provide students with first-hand experience with historic and contemporary fashions, as well as costumes representing world cultures as well as an extensive collection of American glass, fine furniture, textiles, paintings and other decorative arts. To support their current work in social studies, the second graders explored the Museum’s current exhibits, Fashion Timeline, a collection of historic fashions spanning two centuries and Fashions of the Forties, a collection of fashions from the 1940s and the era spanning World War II. The second graders took iPads with them to capture photos and will be creating digital books of “Clothing from Long Ago”.
The Rootstown second graders started their morning in the AT&T Classroom using the Word Cloud tool at the ABCya website to create a word cloud of their spelling/vocabulary words. A word cloud is a visual representation of terms/words that are related to a specific concept. The ABCya website offers a tool specifically designed for children for creating word clouds. The tool offers several different templates and colors for fonts and backgrounds to allow students to customize their cloud.
Later this morning the second graders walked to the Kent State Museum housed in the Fashion School in Rockwell Hall. Comprised of eight galleries, the Kent State Museum holds one of the most comprehensive teaching collections of fashionable design from the 18th century to the present. The Museum is able to provide students with first-hand experience with historic and contemporary fashions, as well as costumes representing world cultures as well as an extensive collection of American glass, fine furniture, textiles, paintings and other decorative arts. To support their current work in social studies, the second graders explored the Museum’s current exhibits, Fashion Timeline, a collection of historic fashions spanning two centuries and Fashions of the Forties, a collection of fashions from the 1940s and the era spanning World War II. The second graders took iPads with them to capture photos and will be creating digital books of “Clothing from Long Ago”.
