Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum

Purpose: Expanding Educational Services The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum will establish a working model of off-site museum-based learning for high school history students, but creating an interactive Web site called Silas Deane Online. The Web site will use digital technology to offer a thematic curricula "cluster" centered on the life and experiences of one of Connecticut's "lost heroes" of the American Revolution. The lesson plans will be supported by digital images of the 1766 Silas Deane House, objects from the museum's collections, and primary documents, as well as a bibliography and links to other Internet sites. The use of interactive video will capture the essence of what it feels like to visit an historic site.