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National Air and Space Museum

Let's visit the museum!

You keep on visiting the wonderful city of Washington DC and your next stop is at one of the Smithsonian Museums: the National Air and Space Museum. These 19 Smithsonian museums are among the most popular attractions in Washington DC and cover a wide range of subjects from art to space exploration. 

The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has got the largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the whole world. The museum features 22 exhibition galleries, with a lot of artefacts including the original Wright 1903 Flyer, the "Spirit of St. Louis, and the Apollo 11.

Smithsonian Air and Space Museum
Don DeBold. Smithsonian Air and Space Museum (CC BY)

At the end of the session, you will have:

  • read and answered some questions about the National Air and Space Museum. 
  • started doing some research on your Google Site project.
  • opened your Learning Diary and started writing your first post of this project.

Before visiting the museum, you have to obtain certain information about it. In order to do so, you must check its official website and answer the following questions:  

  • Museum in DC: When is the museum closed? 
  • Visiting Tips: Which user do you have to choose to connect to the Museum Wi-Fi? 
  • Tours: How long is the tour duration?  

Remember that the National Air and Space Museum must be part of the route at your Google Sites map.

Continue with your posts on Twitter (#taskprediction and #EDIAwashington). Visit the official National Air and Space Museum website and decide if you would  like to visit this museum and what part of the museum is your favourite. Tweet, using the hashtags, the answer to these questions. 

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Presidents of the United States of America

As you have already seen, Washington D.C. is the capital city of the United States of America. Nowadays, all presidents of the USA live in the White House in Washington D.C. It is possible that you already know some of them due to films, books or television.   

Take a look at the complete list of American Presidents. Each of you has to choose one of these presidents and select four important facts that happened while they were presidents. 

Send a tweet with the link of the page of the president you have chosen and to the post of your learning diary where you have written the outline of his presidency. Remember to use the project hashtags.

Mount Rushmore
Aaron Vowels. Mount Rushmore (CC BY)

As a result of this activity, you have to create a list where all of you will have highlighted some important facts of each president of the U.S. You have to upload this list to your personal blog. 

In order to create the list of all the presidents using the link of your post from your learning diaries, you can use the following online tools:

When you finish, you can share your link through Twitter using the hashtags of this project: #taskprediction and #EDIAwashington. The 'Rubric to assess a Tweet' can help you do a good job in this social network.

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Your challenge: Washington. Here we go!

Challenge Step 2: Getting to know what is required and starting with the research

At this stage, once you have set up your teams and created your Google Site, you have to continue with the entry of the administrative capital of the United States, Washington DC for the English-speaking cities challenge. 

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as "Washington", "the District", or simply "D.C.", is the capital of the United States. Washington is a federal district and where the nation's seat of government is located. It is also considered to be the capital city of the fifty States that exist in The United States. 

Flag of the United States
Steinsplitter. Flag of the United States (CC0)

As you have seen in this section, the United States is made of 50 different States. Each one of them has its own flag and its own capital city. This is the flag of Washington - District of Columbia.

The flag of the District of Columbia.
Xfi. The flag of the District of Columbia. (CC0)

The minimum requirements that your group has to fulfil in order to pass this challenge successfully include:

  • the map of the city from Google Maps with the route of the ten steps we have in our tour of the city.
  • one video about tourism in the city,
  • some text about what tourists can do in the city,
  • And two links to printable guides, leaflets, brochures, and so forth.

In order to complete the challenge, you are suggested to look up the some websites:

These are the suggested websites where you can obtain a lot of information for your challenge. But you can add some more in.

In order to produce the best possible design of this challenge, you have to take into account the following rubric: 'Rubric for assessing the design of a digital site'.

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Learning diary

Learning Diary. Step 1: Start your blog-portfolio and use it to

One of the activities you have to do in this project is a "Learning Diary". You can do it by opening up a blog where you can explain, in your first post, different aspects of your research such as:

  • How you have divided the different tasks and the research you have done.
  • All the steps you have followed in your investigation.
  • The links you have visited in your challenge.

If you have already opened up a blog in another project, just add these reflections in another page. Remember that creativity is going to be really important in developing the project. 

This is also a perfect moment for you to check your work. Press the button and answer the questions in your blog.

Remember to share the link of your learning diary through Twitter using the hashtag: #taskprediction and #EDIAwashington 

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