Lincoln Movie and Floor Plans?

Over this past weekend with the Thanksgiving holiday I saw the Lincoln Movie. In the beginning it was the usual background information but it got more in depth with Lincoln life story. How he wanted to become the President of United States, how he wanted to make changes within the Civil War. While looking for something to blog about, I found this website called the Lincoln Movie and White House which is pretty cool to see the actual floor plans of the White House when Abraham Lincoln was the President. While looking through this you can actually go to the White House Museum Floor Plan clicking on different rooms on the website. You actually see real images of what the that particular room looks like. There is a summary of the specific room about the history of the room, which is great to know about. I showed this website to my little cousins who are in the second grade, seventh grade and fifth grader, they all liked the website. The reason why they were excited clicking on different rooms, even though the second grader could not read fully all the words. There were pictures showing her what is in the rooms. She would ask different questions, for example, what is that there, who is that in the chair? Questions about the picture, but the second grader was learning more about the rooms in the White House because she was asking questions. Even though she has not learned anything in the government subject yet, but she was learning by the pictures. Clicking on the different rooms were helping her read and pronounce the different rooms. This is a great site to actually know what is the White House, knowing a little more history about the White House is a great! If students saw this in class they would probably know more about the White House and wanting to learn, because it is a hands on learning. Clicking on different rooms learning about the history of it. It is great! Just watching my little cousins go on this website, I was helping them learn and understanding a little bit more about the White House because of the website I found out.
This website can help education a lot in many ways. It will help the students keep there attention span longer, actually want to learn more because you can click on different rooms. Can ask more questions because the student may not know who is the picture or what the history of that room consist of. This website can be used for government, I think it is a great technology tool for the teachers to use in a classroom. Teacher's can teach a little bit more what is in the White House, let the students focus more about what is in the White House, knowing a little more background knowledge.