Turning on Technology
Ferryway School in Malden, Massachusetts, incorporates science, math, design and technology for an interactive unit. They chose to embrace a project-learning strategy to connect science and colonial history through a local historic site that dates back to the 1640s, the Saugus Iron Works.

http://www.edutopia.org/media/ferryway/ferryway.flv

Click here if you can’t see the video. Rather read an article?  Click here.  From Edutopia.org.

We’re Going on a Treasure Hunt: How to make a summertime museum trip with kids worthwhile
From Slate.com columnist Emily Bazelon. A mom’s perspective about taking two young boys to museums rather than to beach. Full of laughs and suggestions.

Example: Fellow Slate columnist Anne Applebaum offers this tips: “We go into the gift shop, everybody buys a couple of postcards, and then they have to find the pictures/sculptures.”

Smithsonian Education
And in case you can’t make to a museum this summer, here’s an interactive link from the Smithsonian so you can explore the museum online.