My students and I have been studying famous artists the past few weeks, and I wanted to end this fun unit with a bang: a field trip to the closest art museum. However, the museum is more than three hours away, and there was just no way I could come up with the funds to transport all of them. So I decided to do a virtual tour, provided by the museum's website. We made a huge show of the thing; I took down all the posters around the room, and projects a different painting on each wall. We walked around the classroom like we were taking a tour of a real building. It was a fun, free day that really got the kids involved and interested.
However, we were limited by the number of projectors we could procure, and therefore, we only got to see a fraction of the paintings I'd have liked the kids to see. And we didn't get started on the sculptures. Although this was a great, cost-free method of doing something we otherwise wouldn't have gotten to do, there's nothing like seeing the real thing.
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