Professor's Virtual Collection

The Professor's Virtual Collection is the one the activities in the First Floor in JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain. It is designed to teach about art and language arts.

Description
The Virtual Collection is found in the Mountain's Art Gallery and, as the name suggests, it is a virtual museum of various famous works of art. The categories are Portraits, Self Portraits, Tells Stories, Records History, Everyday Life, Landscape, Still Life, Art as Decoration, Symbolic Art, and Religious Art. In this activity, Polly gives a clue pointing to a particular work of art (e.g. "Quick, Snotley! Which U.S. state is famous for its peaches?" (a reference to the photograph Georgia O'Keefe), which the user must then find and bring up onto the digital display. Pulling on the lever will change to a different art gallery. Clicking on any of the thumbnails provides information about it; clicking again brings a full-sized photo to the display. Once the correct work is found, the user will have to play another activity where several boxes must be rearranged so that all their sides match. For this game, the user will have to use art, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, compound words, or mathematical problems to match the sides. Puzzle pieces can be swapped by clicking on one to lift it off the display, then clicking on another piece. Using the rotate button at the bottom of the display changes the position of the pieces. Once the puzzle is solved, the Clue or Invention Points will be revealed.

Portraits

 * Photograph of Georgia O'Keefe

Self Portraits

 * Self portrait of Vincent van Gogh

Tells Stories

 * Egyptian art
 * Greek vase

Still Life

 * Dutch painting of flowers

Art as Decoration

 * American quilt
 * Chinese porcelain vase

Symbolic Art

 * Native American totem pole


 * Auguste Rodin's The Thinker

Religious Art

 * Stained glass window
 * Statue of Shiva

Difficulty level differences

 * Level one: The puzzle consists of six tiles.
 * Level two: The puzzle consists of nine tiles.
 * Level three: The puzzle consists of twelve tiles.

Digital manual description
If you want to view any of the art in the Professor's collection, you'll first have to get by Polly - each time you click on the Virtual Collection, she'll give you a clue related to one of the Professor's works of art. She's hidden either a Mission Clue or some of those precious Invention Points there, and it's your challenge to find them!


 * Use Polly's clue and Mrs. Beasley's hints to select the right category of art from the rotating drum. To change the category, click on the lever.
 * Click once on the tiny picture to learn more about that particular piece of art.
 * Click on the tiny picture again to display the art inside the Virtual Viewer.
 * If Polly's hidden a Mission Clue or Invention Points in the artwork, she'll scramble it into a puzzle.
 * Put the pieces in the right order. Click on any puzzle piece to lift it off the display, then click on another piece to switch them.
 * To turn a piece right-side-up, click the Rotate button or press the spacebar on your keyboard.