EarthMuseum: A Living Curriculum
Supporting Localised Contextual Learning
Curriculums today struggle with relevance and engagement. EarthMuseum solves this by offering real-world, place-based content that is geo-tagged and culturally rooted—enabling students to learn history, geography, science, and social studies through the lens of their own environment and the environments of others.
This shifts education from abstract textbook learning to experiential, contextual learning—turning every location on Earth into a living lesson.
Come with us on a journey to build EarthMuseum as one of the world’s most innovative education platforms, with Air We Breathe as our first learning programme.
Our interactive Beta showcases core explorer functionality of the new platform, and provides access to trial learning activities from the Air We Breathe learning programme. Please pilot in the classroom and send us feedback about the learning experience.
It has been designed for desktops, laptops and ChromeBooks (not yet for tablets/ mobiles)!
We are currently developing the functionality that will enable users to add their own content and build maps. Watch this space for further updates.
Exploring EarthMuseum: Quick Tips
- You can stop the globe spinning by clicking on it and start it spinning by clicking again.
- You can zoom in and out of the globe at any time using your mouse or keypad
- When you click on a waypoint pin it will automatically zoom into the subject story. The interactive map will shrink into a smaller circle, but it is still interactive and you can zoom in or out within that circle using a mouse or touch screen to explore geographical context. When you are finished, just click close and it will automatically zoom out to the globe view.
- Individual waypoints showcase the basic or education templates to give you an idea of these two examples. They also provide examples of video and still image backgrounds. A few have links to external museum collection web pages.
- If you ever get lost, just click on the EarthMuseum logo in the header top left and it will bring you back to the home globe view!
Using Air We Breathe: Quick Tips
- Learning activity sheets are linked to the buttons highlighted in blue across the 3 thematic areas: History Detectives; Data Analysts and Scientists; Innovators and Campaigners. These are ready to trial in the classroom. You can download them as PDFs or share them on the site, as best for your class setting. Some have links to additional resources that are part of the activity.
- The Air We Breathe digital history map can be found in History Detectives by clicking on the rotating globe. All waypoints use the education template and can be navigated as above.
- Click on the green-blue ‘multiple’ waypoint pin to zoom into an area where there are several individual story waypoints. Click on one to open it. When you are finished, don’t click ‘close’ but instead use your mouse to zoom out on the interactive map in the smaller circle. Once you can see another close-by pin, click on it and you will zoom into that story. Alternatively, click close and zoom out to globe view, and click on ‘multiple’ pin again to go back in and view others.
- To navigate away from the Air We Breathe digital history map back to the History Detectives menu, click on your browser’s back arrow at top left of your screen.