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, Tell Stories, Record 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. 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.

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: Six tiles match the sides.
 * Level two: Nine tiles match the sides.
 * Level three: Twelve tiles match the sides.

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.