Are you ready to travel?
To virtually explore the World?
Join me on Todays' adventure to the National Museum
of Anthropology.
The National Museum of Anthropology is located
in Mexico, and is home to over 600,000
artifacts from the Mayans,
Olmecs,
and Aztecs.
It is the largest museum in the country.
So, are you ready to go check it out?
What you'll need is a computer with Google Streets access.
Let's go!
In Google, search for:
"The National Museum of Anthropology".
On the right-hand side, click on
the map view.
We'll want to zoom in
close to the museum, so you can use the wheel
on your mouse.
Or, the zoom tools here on the right-hand side.
But let's zoom on in.
Until you start to see the outline
of the building, like that, but we want
to keep on zooming in, even a little bit more.
So it takes up the whole screen, just like that.
You can click and drag with your mouse to center.
Alright, time to grab our
Street View friend, Pegman.
Down here, in the bottom right-hand corner.
We're going to click and drag him on over.
 
You'll want to place him along a blue line,
and luckily, there's tons of those at this museum,
so we're going to drop him here.
And now we're inside the museum, how cool!
So what you can do, to take a look
around is click and drag with your mouse,
just like that.
And I see, already,
the most famous piece in this museum.
Going to head on over there, which you can see
the arrows on the floor.
You're going to click on those.
To advance throughout the museum.
But, here we go.
It's the Stone of the Sun.
Also known as the Aztec Calendar.
I'm going to continue over here to this
panel on the wall, so we can learn more about it.
Here we go, the Stone of the Sun.
Using the wheel on your mouse, you can zoom in.
And read it.
Awesome!
I'm going to take a look around more.
There is so much to explore in this museum.
The "X's" are good places to go, stop
and take a look around.
Now, if you get stuck in one place and want to
explore another part of the museum, you'll click
on this arrow in the upper left-hand corner,
to go back to the street view.
Grab your Pegman again.
And let's drop him in another part of the museum.
I'm going to head over onto this north side here.
And now I see some pottery.
And, I'm going to back out just one more time to see
what else I can show you real quick
before you go off on your adventure.
Grab my Pegman friend, and let's drop him on the
south side of the building. Here we go.
And now I see some clothes.
 
Learn about the Mayans...
Alright, as you can see
there is so much to explore in this museum.
So keep on going.
Use the guided activities at PlanoLibraryLearns.org
to expand your visit
at the museum.
I hope you enjoyed this Virtual Field Trip,
and we will see you next time!
