Your students can experience distance learning firsthand by participating in a live, interactive videoconference with museum staff. Videoconference formats are straightforward: Your students will be able to see, hear, and speak with a museum educator in real time via a television monitor, and that presenter will likewise be able to see, hear, and speak with your students. Museum staff will work with your building’s technology coordinator to test audio and video links before the videoconference.

Exciting educational moments occur when close-up cameras are used to visually explore structures as familiar as a Robin’s nest or as unusual as a tiger beetle’s compound eye. Videoconference programs are aligned with Pennsylvania’s Academic Standards, and relevant pre-videoconference lesson materials are provided two weeks in advance of scheduled sessions.

Technical Requirements
Current programming is available for schools with IP- and ISDN-based videoconferencing systems.

Scheduling
For reservations and updated program schedules, call (412) 622-3292 or email IDEA@CarnegieMNH.org.

Single Session Videoconferences

Most topics can be modified to address your class’s specific questions, ongoing projects, and related study units. Programs are 45 minutes and $125 with discounts available for multiple bookings.

Available topics include:
Ancient Egypt
Arctic Life
Bats
Bird Nests
Dinosaurs: What’s New
Groundhogs
Insects
The Iroquois People
Minerals

Recording of programs is prohibited. Programs must be reserved two weeks in advance. Pre-videoconference lesson materials will be available electronically.

Web-based Course for Lower Elementary Students

The museum’s first Internet-based outreach program is a class period-length interactive lesson on fossils and dinosaurs. For information on scheduling and pricing, contact Sue McJunkin at (412) 622-3235 or McJunkinS@CarnegieMNH.org.