Three Storeys Three Stories
Teacher’s Guide
The Three Stories Three Stories self-guided virtual tour & student worksheet is designed to be flexible in its use - you can print the pages off for your students, or have then complete them on their devices by filling in the MS Word document. The questions in the worksheet can be completed by individual students, small groups, or used to guide a discussion with your entire class.
Below you’ll find the documents that are accessible to your students on the student page as well as the Teacher’s Guide, a version of the Student Worksheet with suggested answers, discussion topics, and further information to help you guide your students through Dalnavert Museum. You’ll also find some suggested activities, if you’d like to extend the reach of the Virtual Reality Tour in your classroom beyond the initial tour guided by the Student Worksheet.
To conduct the tour, your students will need to have access to:
1) Student Worksheet (either digital or hard-copy)
2) Virtual Reality Tour (available for free on the Dalnavert website here)
3) audio clips (hosted on the student page)
Teacher’s Guide
Student Worksheets
EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
Scavenger Hunt: Offers an opportunity to freely explore the virtual tour, searching for different things around the house. The scavenger hunt is available to all students on the student page or you can download it here.
Changing Perspectives: Visiting an unfamiliar place is a prompt to students to view the world from a new perspective. Students develop a prose piece in this exercise, writing in the voice of a person who lived in the house in 1895, a master or a servant, a child or an adult. They could imagine and explore in writing a day or a moment in the life of a person from the past and connect to one of more of the themes discussed during the tour.
An Object Poem: Students are invited to take screenshots of objects they view during their virtual tour such as a soap dish, a kettle, or a door hinge. These images can be used by students as inspiration for focused writing exercises in poetry or prose, fiction or non- fiction focusing on one or more of the themes discussed during the tour.
A Letter Home: in this exercise, students experiment with epistolary writing, composing a letter inspired by their visit to Dalnavert. This letter could be written to a person from the past that lived in the house, to a future visitor to the house, or to a person who has never visited the house.