On-Line Dig, An Internet Treasure Hunt

Worksheet

Student Name __________________Date_____________

Find the Monna Lisa, by DLonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci

 

1.    What floor of the Louvre is she found on? ________________________

 

2.    (Bonus) How many other paintings are hung on the wall with her? ______

(hint, atlas search by room, wing: Denon, Level: 1 e étage, Salle 13, click: autre vue)

 

For questions #3-4, find the Huexitzinco Codex

 

3.    What is the paper called the codes are written on?____________________

 

4.    What do the graphic images represent? ____________________________

 

  • For question #5, locate the original documents for the United States of America.:

 

5.    What document by Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) is this an original rough

 

draft of? ____________________________________________________

 

·      University of Michigan, USA: http://si.umich.edu/chico/

 

6.    "In 1927, Professor Francis Kelsey bought this collection of amulets from a Miss Wolff who worked in a government ________________ in Sudan.”

 

7.    "Amulet 8 Original tag: A mummified ___________or ___________ worn

 

by a __________to preserve its ______________."

 

·      San Francisco, CA, USA, Morrison Planetarium: www.calacademy.org/planetarium

8.    What is a planetarium?_________________________________________

 

 

 

 

9.    city: __________________________  state:_______________

 

10.                 What are the "Pine Sharks" made from? ________________________

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11.                 What are the names of the three "pine sharks" by Kitty Wales?"_____

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12.                 What is Alfred Duca's "Pegasus" made from? ___________________

 

13.  Who is the artist/inventor that created the "Musical Fence" in 1980?

·      Chicago, IL, USA: www.fieldmuseum.org

14. Who is Sue? _________________________________________________

15. Why is it special? ____________________________________________

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16. Where was it found? ___________________________________________

17. How did it get its name? ________________________________________

18. How large was its brain? ________________________________________

·      NASA, USA: http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html

19. What makes Polaris the "North Star?" _____________________________

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20. Will Polaris always be the "North Star?" ___________________________

21. Do we have a "South Star?" _____________________________________

·      Washington D.C., USA: www.nasm.si.edu,  QuickTime VR in the Pilot's Seat, Live at the Steven F. Udvar Hazy Center, www.nasm.si.edu/museum/udvarhazy

22.          How many seats are visible in the Concorde's cockpit? ______________

23. Find: -Space Shuttle Enterprise,

         -Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird,

         -Concorde, the Boeing 367-80 “Dash 80,”

         -Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay,

         -Boeing 307 Stratoliner Clipper Flying Cloud

   24. On what level are all of the above listed aircraft located? _______________