School Groups Visits
The Met welcomes all school-age learners! We invite you to book either a guided visit led by trained Museum educators and volunteers or a self-guided visit, which allows you to lead your own students through the Museum. Booking is required for all school groups visiting the Museum. To pay a visit to The Met Fifth Avenue or The Met Cloisters, please visit us at schoolvisits@metmuseum.org.
Guided Visits
Guided tours must be booked at least three weeks in advance. Individual (单独的) schools are limited to three weekday morning guided visits per term. Each school is limited to one group visit per day.
Admission
Membership benefits and other passes are not in use for group visits.
Students $12
Required Adult Chaperones (监护人) $12
Other Adults $25
Under-resourced (资金不足的) organizations may apply for reduced rates (价格). Please ask for details when you book.
Group Size
Guided tours at The Met Fifth Avenue or The Met Cloisters may have no fewer than 10 students and no more than 50 students, with one chaperone required for every 10 students. Larger groups will be divided into smaller ones in order to offer more attention to students there.
Visit Schedule
Guided visits are conducted at each place as follows:
The Met Fifth Avenue: Monday through Friday, 9:45 am - 3:30 pm.
The Met Cloisters: Monday through Friday, 10 am - 3:30 pm.
For more information or questions, please call 211-535-7710.
Since birth, I have worn a tracheotomy tube (气切管) around my neck to help me breathe. When I was growing up, it was common for adults to tell me that I should wear colorful scarves (围巾) so that other people wouldn't see it. They would say, "You can't even tell it's there," as if my disability is something to be ashamed of. As a kid, I never really thought about my disability the way I do now. It was just how I lived my life.
Now I'm 26 years old, and I'm proud to call myself a disabled woman because I consider my disability to be a part of who I am. I travel around the world to share my story as a disabled reporter and train other reporters on how to cover disability problems. I still remember the first time I gave a university lecture to a group of students. I realized that I could help create safe spaces where disabled people can be themselves and feel free to tell their own stories.
Unfortunately, being disabled is still viewed as something that is meant to be overcome. But for so many of us, this is how we live. This is who we are. I am always moved by the people I've met in the disability community: educators, historians, writers, lawyers and many more because we share the same dream and the same need for a mentally-safe world.
Smart phones are greatly changing the way we walk down the street. Office workers and young people are walking like the old as they check emails and messages.
Scientists have found mobile phones make us walk more slowly, with modest steps, to avoid falling over. The leader of the study said the walk is just like someone in their eighties. Researchers found people writing a text message walk more than twice as slowly as those without a phone, finding it harder to stay in a straight line.
The scientists examined 252 people walking while reading a text message, writing one, speaking on their phones or without their phones at all. Writing a text is the hardest activity, causing people to look down at their phone 46 percent more, and 45 percent longer, than when reading a message. This led people to walk 118 per cent more slowly than when they were without their phones. People walked almost a third more slowly while reading a text and 19 per cent while talking on the phone.
Smart phones were found to stop people from walking in a straight line, putting them at greater risk of running into other people, cars or street lamps. This increased the need to slow down and take more careful steps.
John Timmis said the idea for this study came from following someone walking down the street in the afternoon, who was walking as if he had had several drinks. I thought it was a bit early for that, then walked up alongside him and saw that he was on his phone. Simply being on the phone changes the way people walk.
Have you ever imagined that your T-shirt can cool you down by up to 5℃ on these hot summer days? Thanks to a recent discovery, the possibility is getting closer. While there are many technologies that manage to keep the body warm, this amazing invention aims to offer real comfort for those who want to feel cool and fresh on extremely hot days.
Its inventors, engineers Ma Yaoguang of Zhejiang University and Tao Guangming of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China, took a completely new technique. They designed a special textile that can take in body heat and give off its energy into space. This means that, even when it looks like you are wearing a regular shirt, you are actually wearing something that works like a mirror.
Research at Stanford University in 2017 had already managed to cool the wearers by 3℃, but this experiment was limited. So researchers still need to do more experiments to see the new technique to decide how effectively the new material cools while the wearers are standing or walking, and not directly facing the sky, like in their experiments. They also need to examine how well it works when T-shirts are not in close touch with the skin.
Inventors Yaoguang and Guangming note that the new material will increase the costs by just 10 percent."It means everybody can get a T-shirt and the cost is basically the same as their old one," Yaoguang said.
So if you are an athlete or simply someone that has to deal with the extremely high temperatures, be patient because your days of feeling hot and bothered may be coming to an end!
How to Have Fun During a Long Car Ride
Are you afraid of that long, family car ride? Boredom can be avoided. The following are some things that you can do so that you won't feel bored any more.
Read a book. If you do feel carsick, stop reading. Get a book that is full of action — this should keep your mind busy and make you feel time flies.
If you have an iPhone, iPad, or iPod, play games that don't require the Internet. Some good ones are Paint Sparkles, talking friends apps, (some talking friends apps require money) including Tom Heart Angela, Talking Larry, (Talking Larry might require money, too), Talking Rex, Talking Lila, and Talking Hippo. Other recommendations are the Garfield diner app, Pet Puppy, Angry Birds, Hungry Hippo, Zoom, Math Puppy. Watch a movie or two on your digital tablet or portable DVD player.
Play with some toys. Then on the way you can play a game of showing them around the outside of the car. You can also play with anything else you may have brought from home, such as dolls.
Listen to some music. Soft music will help you remain calm in the car unlike rock music. Play around with different styles.
A. Play some car games.
B. Try classical, jazz, and more.
C. Or anything else you can think of.
D. Take advantage of your technology.
E. You can bring along some stuffed animals.
F. This can work for some, as long as you don't get too carsick.
G. In fact, a long car ride is an opportunity to do lots of fun things.
On quiet days, Rober Moore, a retired (退休的) high school music teacher, likes to think about the list: the names of all 900 of his students.
Unknown to Mr. Moore, a small group of his students had been 1 a surprise for the past year. They 2 him out to the place where he had worked and then surprised him with the greatest 3 a teacher can receive.
From across America and three foreign countries, Rober Moore's students returned, 4 300 of them, all to tell him about the huge 5 he had made in their lives. Many went into education. Many more went after 6 including John Atkins, who graduated in 1976. "I have a 25-year 7 singing the LA Opera all around the country. It wouldn't have 8 without you." Atkins said.
The students rented the old Poncan Theatre and 9 one special show for their teacher. Their beautiful 10 and their increasing success undoubtedly 11 what a good teacher can 12 in a career. In their school days they felt discipline (纪律) was huge, and Mr. Moore was always 13 with them. But they said they would do anything they could to 14 him, and on that night, they did just that.
Strict teachers often go unappreciated (不被感激) for many years, but if they are good, 15 thanks do come thundering in.
Everyone (want) to succeed in their life, don't they? Even as (teenager), you can achieve success in your life.
First, do well in school. No matter how (challenge) it is now, education will help you be a productive (富有成效的) member in society. Listen to the teachers, do your homework, study, and you (get) good grades. School sets you up on the right track! Second, do you love. Pick up a hobby: reading, writing, singing, dancing, etc. It will pass time and help you develop your (personal). Experiment and discover new things; you might be surprised (find) that you really like them! Third, figure out your goals in life and work towards . Start thinking about careers you would like to be in, but make a good choice based your interest and strength. This could be your job for the rest of your life! Challenge yourself and you'll (sure) be amazed at what you can achieve!
Life is short, so enjoy it while you can.
It was eight o'clock on a cold spring night. I was so tired. I had depended on a walking stick to go anywhere for seven weeks, recovering from surgery, and I couldn't find a way to cheer myself up.
The phone rang for the sixth time in less than an hour. We knew who it was. My mother had been suffering from dementia and mental distress. There was little we could do to help her.
As her eldest daughter, I tried my best to help her. Though we visited every few days, she believed that her daughters had not visited in months. She thought that her friend Jimmy never wanted to see her again, even though he called her and visited weekly. She had no idea that she had repeated the things she was about to say a hundred times today and a hundred times the day before. She had no idea that I had undergone surgery, nor could she remember her own granddaughter's name. She forgot most of her own past.
This time, I got angry with my mother. "Mom!" I shouted. "We care about you. We visited two days ago! Mom, you have to believe me, and if you don't, I cannot talk to you anymore!"
Silence. Then she said, "I am only calling to say hello. Why are you shouting?"
"I'm shouting because you keep calling me a hundred times every single day! I'm shouting because you are asking me the same question a thousand times every time you call me! I'm shouting because I have repeated the answer ten thousand times! I'm shouting because I don't know what to say!"
I sat on the sofa, realizing that my daughter was watching me. She heard me blame my mother, heard me lose my patience and say that someone I loved was a burden. I curled up on the sofa, upset.
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My five-year-old daughter asked to speak to her grandmother on the phone.
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I watched my daughter care about her weak grandmother with such deftness.
