Three Types of Goals
There are three types of educational
goals for visitors to the City Science Mural online experience:
skill/process, content, and attitude.
These draft goals are meant to be initial guidelines for
the learning to be accomplished through the City Science
Mural interactives and supporting lessons and activities.
We at the Academy encourage you to contact
us to recommend changes to these goals, to
suggest new goals, or to discuss further the educational
goals for this experience.
Skill and Process Goals
Skill and process goals are benchmarks for "doing" and
"acting." These goals include:
- Using a computer to access an online learning experience
(including using a mouse and keyboard)
- Navigating around an Internet Web site
- Using a zoom tool (magnifying glass or zoom frame)
to study the mural more closely
- Using an image key to identify the many objects
in the mural
- Using the My Mural experience to create a mural
of one's own design
- Exploring the Find and Link experience [still to
be developed] to understand the nature of hyperlinks
Content Goals
Content goals are areas of knowledge to be gained by
or stimulated in visitors to the site. We hope visitors
will learn about:
- How people use nature (food, clothing, shelter,
transportation, energy) ["nature" meaning, broadly,
the natural world]
- How people change nature when they use it (farming
the land, building cities, developing infrastructures)
- How most everyday objects are made from nature
- How people use nature at home and at work
- How cities are connected to nature
- How people rely on four life necessities: food,
clothing, shelter, and transportation · How cause
and effect relationships work in nature
- Why murals are an art form
- Who painted the mural
- How to identify objects in a mural and how to "read"
or interpret a mural
- What stories the mural and its objects and messages
tell us about our lives
Attitude Goals
Attitude goals are those changes in feelings or we hope
a visit to the site might incite: New or increased—
- Curiosity about how our lives are connected to nature
- Delight in making connections between nature and
our lives (the objects in the mural and our lives)
- Appreciation for how we depend on nature
- Concern about the effects of the human use and transformation
of nature
- Comfort about how science can be approachable and
fun
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