👟 Every outfit tells a story. From long skirts in gymastics to modern smart fabrics, our “Gear Up for Sports and Fair Play” story explores the exciting world of sports and the special clothes that athletes wear.

📚 On World Children’s Day, we reaffirm a simple truth: Every child deserves the chance to learn, create, and shape their future.

🌍 With climate talks underway at COP30 in Brazil, we’re reminded that creativity and learning are powerful tools for inspiring future generations to become leaders of positive change.

👩‍🏫 Teachers! Bring space to life this term 🚀 Watch the Leonid Meteor Shower (active 6-30 November, peaking on 17 November) with your students - a perfect way to spark curiosity.

👚 How have school uniforms changed over time? Compare uniforms in different decades and countries and ask your students: 💭 Do you think wearing the same clothes makes it easier to learn? 💭 What dress codes does your school have? 💭 What do you think a school uniform in 2100 will be like?

🎒What’s in your school bag? From paper and pencil to laptops, what we carry to school tells the story of how education has changed. A school bag isn’t just about supplies - it reflects how, where, and what we learn. 💭 What would your school bag from the past look like?

🌪️ Have you heard of the Dust Bowl era? In the 1930s, severe droughts and dust storms swept across the Great Plains in the U.S. and Canada, forcing thousands of families to leave their homes in search of better land.

💡In our story "Patchwork of skills", students can explore textile techniques such as embroidery, sewing, and knitting while reflecting on future skills they acquired during the pandemic.

🌳 Discover our brand new lesson plan, designed to inspire your students to protect birds and their natural habitats! 🦅 Get to know and compare some fascinating birds 🐞 Learn how birds, insects, and plants need each other to survive 🌍 Explore how we can care for birds and their environment

🫐🌿 Meet Deadly Nightshade: beautiful, dangerous, and perfect for Halloween. ☠️ Through papier-mâché and interactive teaching resources, our story helps learners explore how poisonous plants like Deadly Nightshade have shaped folklore, science, and medicine. 🧪

🎨 A FanZine is a creative mini-magazine designed to enhance learning through art and creativity. 💡 This creative activity will actively engage your students, encouraging deeper understanding and retention of information.

🪼How do you preserve tiny creatures as fragile as jellyfish or sea slugs? In the 1800s, scientists struggled - preserved specimens lost their color and form. So Rudolph and Leopold Blaschka created lifelike glass models, capturing tiny marine life in extraordinary detail. 🐙

📚 According to the UNESCO-World Bank’s latest Education Finance Watch report, lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) spend $309 per child on education per year, whereas high income countries spend about 28 times that amount.

It’s #BlackHistoryMonth in the United Kingdom – a great time to talk about racial equality and social justice in the classroom. Join the Tarpley family on a journey to explore key moments in the African American community’s fight to access education.

📝 Teaching Tip: Explore the story “What is a Perfect Globe?” to help students reflect on their relationship with Planet Earth. Compare how we explore the world today with the journeys of explorers like Alexander von Humboldt and Élisée Reclus.

“Knowing how to learn is key in the information age.” 🏫 In 2017, Mmantsetsa Marope, the leader of a global education initiative at UNESCO, warned that many children are still being educated for the past, not the future. She stressed that 21st-century competencies must be part of every curriculum.

Did you celebrate World Migratory Bird Day on October 11th? 🦅 Check out the beautiful birds featured in our story 'The Gould League of Bird Lovers of New South Wales'.

🌍 Wouldn’t it be boring if we were all the same? 👚 Clothing and cultural diversity is a great way to spark classroom conversations about difference, identity, and belonging.

🍂 As the pace of summer slows and autumn settles in, it’s the perfect time to pause and really look at our surroundings.

📣 Make your lessons engaging and easy to manage with the Teacher Zone. With our free platform, you can:

📚 This Sunday, on World Teachers’ Day, we celebrate the educators who inspire curiosity, nurture creativity, and guide the next generation of learners. 🌍 At the Digital Museum of Learning, we’re proud to support teachers everywhere with resources designed to make learning engaging and accessible.

📵 'When can I get my own smartphone?' It's the question heard in homes and classrooms around the world. 📱 As more schools move to ban smartphones, children still dream of owning one, and families and teachers are being drawn into deeper debates about the role of technology in childhood.

✨ This week, our team is sharing their favorite stories! For Anna-Lisa Lundberg, our Program Associate, it's "A Box Full of Botanical Adventures!" 🪻"I'm drawn to this story because it reveals the history behind an intriguing object I had not heard of before: the vasculum.

🎉 We’ve hit a milestone - 3,000 teachers have joined our Teacher Zone! Thank you to all the amazing educators around the world who are using our interactive stories, quizzes, and resources in their lessons. Your feedback helps us design digital learning experiences that are effective and engaging.

📣 Calling all educators! Spark your students' creativity with our FanZine Fun learning resources!

🧵 Could your clothes have superpowers? 💡 In our story “Superpowers in Every Fiber”, we explore how textiles can do more than just cover you–they can light up, regulate temperature, and even sense touch!

🎒👗 Back to school, back to dress codes? As schools roll out new outfit rules, our story “Can You Crack the Dress Code?” invites children to explore the deeper meaning behind what we wear.

🗣️ Looking for ways to help your children express their emotions? 🪁 Take a look at our story, 'Memories of dolls and teddy bears', which explores how our childhood toys help us develop emotional intelligence and create lasting memories to cherish our whole lives.

🇨🇭Earlier this summer, our team was thrilled to join the Annual Congress of the Swiss Museums Association (VMS/AMS) and ICOM Switzerland to discuss the role of museums in the digital age.

🏗️ It's renovation time at the Johann Jacobs Museum! This year, we're taking a break from opening our doors as part of the Long Night of Museums, but for a good reason!

📣 Engaging learning made easy! Motivate your students by adding questions, quizzes, and resources to your stories. Sign up for the Teacher Zone for free! 🚀 www.museumoflearning.org/teacher-zone... #Teachers #Education #LearningResources #Museum #eLearning

🪿 Over the summer, we’ve enjoyed getting out into nature, listening to wildlife sounds, and practising how to identify different species.

📘 It’s back-to-school season! 🎒 When school starts, families spend a lot on clothes, supplies, and gadgets. In the US, they spent about $586 per child in 2023!

This summer, we’ve been developing a new story that helps children explore the fascinating world of sound, from the clang of a school bell and the honk of a car horn, to the rustle of paper or even the roar of a lion.

Have you ever wondered where we find all these incredible works of art? 🖼️ At the Digital Museum of Learning, we’re passionate about telling stories that bring history and science to life. But behind every captivating image, there’s often a powerful partner helping us make our stories possible. 🤝

Looking for a great podcast this summer? 🌞 🎧 Why not listen to 'Teachers' Voices', a podcast by @boldinsights.bsky.social where educators from around the globe share how evidence-based practices are transforming children's lives.

✨ Looking for ways to boost classroom engagement? 🧑‍🏫 Our Teacher Zone provides teachers with interactive stories to spark their students' curiosity and shares instant feedback from their class to enhance their teaching. Join today ➡️ www.museumoflearning.org/teacher-zone... #Teachers #Education

🛜 Imagine life without the internet! 💻 In our new stories launching in the autumn, we're looking at how technology has changed education. 👩‍💻 The World Wide Web was invented in 1993 and has transformed the way we learn. Now, it's hard to imagine how we ever found information before...

Discover how Rachel Carson’s 'Silent Spring' sparked an environmental movement, and how it was covered in the media. 🌿📰 #Education #EnvironmentalAwareness #MediaLiteracy

Did you watch last night's final of the @weuro2025bot.bsky.social? ⚽️ These incredible athletes never fail to inspire us, whether it’s to pick up a new sport or simply play with friends for fun. 🤸‍♀️

🚀 As an initiative of the @jacobsfoundation.bsky.social, based in Zurich, we’re proud to support the Foundation’s mission to champion evidence-based education in Switzerland and around the world.

True beauty comes from within! Ideals about beauty and bodies change over time. 💄 In the past, people wore things like corsets to look a certain way. 👗

Looking for ways for your kids to keep learning over the summer holidays? 🌞 With our Teacher Zone, you can create tailored exhibitions from our stories, add questions, and adapt the content for your pupils. 💡

🧵 This #WorldYouthSkillsDay, join us on a quilting adventure! Inspired by Lara Hailey's "Sewn Antidote", students can add a digital patchwork to the virtual quilt, representing the skill they're most proud to have learned, from critical thinking to literacy to social responsibility.

How can we better support and teach diverse learners?

One of the most exciting parts of creating our exhibitions is designing the interactive media that brings stories to life. 💡 We blend insights from researchers, educators, artists, and developers with the creativity of our in-house team.

"I envision AI as a supplement to classroom learning, not as a replacement for personal interaction." 💡 Jennifer Meyer, Assistant Professor at the ‪@univie.ac.at‬ , perfectly captures our vision for educational technology.

📲 As a digital museum, we're fascinated by how new technologies are changing how we learn and providing new pathways for creativity.

✈️ Ready to travel the world—without leaving your seat? 🌎 Whether you're racing like Phileas Fogg, wandering like Élisée Reclus, or ​dreaming of flying like Nils Holgersson, summer is the perfect time to explore!

💡 We couldn’t agree more with Pamela Burnard, Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations at the University of Cambridge.