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Virtual Spectroscope
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: ScienceSoftware displaying a visual representation of a spectrum and a graphical (intensity vs. wavelength) representation. Users redra...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Light, Color And Spectroscopy for Every Classroom
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: ScienceCollection of open-ended investigations encouraging students to investigate phenomena using a range of instrumentation: diffract...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Surprises in Mind
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: MathematicsOne-hour video documentary for K-8 teachers follows a 12-year study that shows how mathematical creativity – valued by industry ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Project STAR: The Universe in Your Hands
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: ScienceAstronomy curriculum with hands-on, real-world math and science activities that encourage students to prove their own theories t...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Exploring the Planets Self Guide
Grades: PS/Pre-K, 1 to 3Subjects: ScienceSelf-guided tour of the National Air and Space Museum, focusing on seven spacecraft that explored the planets. Includes corresp...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Science in Focus: Shedding Light on Science
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: ScienceEight-part content series for K-5 elementary science teachers that uses light as a theme through which to explore topics in phys...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Looking at Learning...Again, Part 1
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Mathematics, ScienceEight-part video workshop featuring seven leading math and science educators sharing their ideas on how children really learn.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Stamp Mural Mosaics
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Principles of DesignLesson plan showing students how to use cancelled stamps in a variety of creative projects. Includes lessons for different class...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Destination: X-ray Milky Way CD-ROM
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: ScienceA CD-ROM tour of images of the objects in our Milky Way as observed in X-ray light by NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Earth 2U: Exploring Geography Curriculum Guide
Grades: PS/Pre-K, 1 to 3Subjects: Earth & Space Science, ScienceBased on the Smithsonian’s “Earth 2U: Exploring Geography” exhibition. Offers ideas for generating students’ interest in geogra...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Smithsonian in Your Classroom: Portraits, Visual and Written
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language ArtsLessons introduce students to the lives and works of Louisa May Alcott and Samuel Clemens through portraits as well as through t...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0The Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New Dimension
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Best-selling author Joy Hakim tells of the discoveries behind the things that define the contemporary world—from the nuclear bom...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Electrical Energy and Circuit Design
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Technology, ScienceInquiry-based physical science and technology unit explores energy transfer in electric circuits. Also captures efficiency in ci...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Lone Dog's Winter Count Teaching Poster
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Native PeoplesTeaching poster for 4th–8th grades is 2' x 3' with a lesson plan and reproducible student activity sheets on back. Students lear...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Plant Growth and Development
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: Life Sciences, ScienceHands-on life science on the life cycle of plants. Activities include germinating seeds, transplanting seedlings, pollinating fl...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Balancing and Weighing
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: Technology, ScienceHands-on physical science unit explores the relationship between weight and balance. Activities include making mobiles, balancin...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Earth in Space
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Human Space Exploration, ScienceStudents explore the relationships of Sun-Earth-Moon and planetary systems in this Science and Technology Concepts for Middle Sc...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Organisms—From Macro to Micro
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Life Sciences, ScienceInquiry-based life science unit investigates concepts such as life cycle, reproduction, growth, and heredity through the study o...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Comparing and Measuring
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: Technology, ScienceHands-on physical science unit explores the skills and concepts behind comparison and measurement. Activities teach and reinforc...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Magnets and Motors
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Technology, ScienceHands-on physical science unit examines properties of magnets and the applications of electromagnetism. Students create a compas...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0