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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAn Exploration of Automotive Design
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Principles of DesignStudents look at car design to explore the tension between aesthetics and functionality in design. For further exploration, stud...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBack to Basics (PreK-3)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Principles of DesignActivity in which students examine the unique and diverse historical artifacts that people have designed to fulfill their everyd...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBlack, Striped, White, & Plaid: Changing Patterns (4-8)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Principles of DesignLesson asking students to create a new design for an everyday object, using color and patterns.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVietnamese American Curriculum
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryCurriculum guide facilitates integrating Vietnamese American history and culture into the classroom. Unit topics include: “Intro...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: The Survival Game after Columbus: Pigs, Weeds, and Other Players (1991)
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.This issue examines the colonization of the Americas, focusing on diseases from Europe and the population growth of European dom...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSmithsonian in Your Classroom: The Music in Poetry
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, English-Language Arts, MusicLessons introducing students to the rhythms of poetry. The focus in on two poetic forms that originated as forms of song: the ba...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentStriking a Balance
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Science, Life Sciences, Ecology & EcosystemsOutdoor activity demonstrating the principles and dynamics of food chains. This activity shows how energy is transferred from th...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0- Resource Type: Document
Weaving the Web
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: Science, Life Sciences, Ecology & EcosystemsLesson plan where students construct food webs to learn how food chains are interconnected. Shows how energy flows through food ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Document
Thar She Blows
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: ScienceLearn how El Niño was formed and how it has affected global wind patterns. Simulation of weather forces created by students.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0 
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExpedition Stories
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Science, English-Language Arts, Human Space ExplorationLesson plan has students write reports or role play stories based on the Transit of Venus expeditions. Students research an expe...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCrystal Blue Persuasion (4-8)
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Principles of DesignLesson examining historic posters, jewelry, quilts and buttons that were created to call attention to a political issue. After e...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBlack, Striped, White, & Plaid: Changing Patterns
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Principles of DesignLesson exploring why objects are typically of a particular color or color pattern. After looking at everyday objects, students u...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEmbracing the Impossible
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Science, United States History, Technology, History-Social Science, Human Space ExplorationTeaching poster and lesson plan guiding students to analyze primary documents that relate to popular responses to the airplane i...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkChairs, Chairs Everywhere…
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Principles of DesignLesson designed to help students become aware of the multitude of design variations in everyday objects by conducting surveys, c...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkChairs, Chairs Everywhere… (PreK-3)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: Principles of DesignActivity designed to help students become aware of the multitude of design variations in everyday objects by conducting surveys,...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCollars, Curtains & Kings: Exploring the History of Lace
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Principles of DesignLesson explores the history of lace, how and where lace is made, and the role of lace in women's lives. Students create a lace ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCarousels, Carnivals, and Cotton Candy: Design for Fun
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Principles of DesignLesson activity in which students design a carousel for an amusement park, work in groups, conduct research, develop a presentat...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHow Things Fly
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Science, United States History, History-Social Science, Human Space ExplorationTeaching poster that includes classroom and gallery activities designed to prepare students for a visit to How Things Fly, an in...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSky Quest Teaching Poster
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: Science, Human Space ExplorationClassroom activities designed to prepare students for the National Air and Space Museum Planetarium show, Sky Quest. Explores c...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0- Resource Type: Document
Striking a Balance
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Life Sciences, Ecology & EcosystemsLesson plan presenting an outdoor activity which demonstrates the principles and dynamics of food chains. A role playing game sh...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0