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Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Past Visions of an American Future Teaching Guide
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Principles of DesignSix lessons on the “history of the future” (how we have envisioned the future). Imagine and plan a future city, explore aspects ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Be a Food Detective
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Life Sciences, Geography, Health Education, History-Social Science, ScienceLesson plan searching for answers to specific questions about prepared food products, including what a food is made from, the so...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Be a Food Detective (9-12)
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Botany and Plant ScienceAnswer specific questions about prepared food products, including what a food is made from, the source of its ingredients, and h...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Beginning Botany with Camas
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: Life Sciences, Botany and Plant Science, ScienceInterdisciplinary extension to lessons describing the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Examines the fundamental principles of botany ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Mapping the Mediasphere
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Theatre, Visual ArtsActivity in which students examine the ways in which their community consumes media. They observe, photograph, and map media me...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Musical Math-terpiece: The Art of Piet Mondrian
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Visual Arts, MathematicsLesson in which students learn about the jazz-inspired life and art of Piet Mondrian to create their own Mondrian-style paintin...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Our Geometric World
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: Principles of DesignActivity in which students come to understand architectural applications of geometry by observing geometry in their community an...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Pilgrims Pride
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.Lesson in which students use the book Molly’s Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen to learn about modern-day immigrants as pilgrims.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Here Come the Sunflowers!
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: Life Sciences, Botany and Plant Science, ScienceLesson plan for learning about sunflowers. Students plant sunflower seeds and record their growth.. Includes two printable activ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Anthropology Teaching Activities: Ethical Dilemmas
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: History-Social ScienceGroup discussion activity intended to introduce or conclude a unit on social change, culture conflict, technology, or anthropolo...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0CityRacks Design Competition: The Next Generation of Bicycle Parking for NYC
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Principles of DesignLesson plan has students make firsthand observations of the location, shape, and use of bike racks in their community, T learn ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Transforming Language: Xu Bing’s Monkeys Grasp the Moon
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Students learn a traditional Chinese folktale and examine a contemporary artwork based on it: Xu Bing’s Monkeys Grasp for the Mo...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Art to Zoo: India—Where Remarkable Differences Are Ordinary (1986)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: No subjects selected.Online issue inviting educators and their students to learn about India, its culture, and the lives of its children.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Art to Zoo: Playing Historical Detective: Great Grandmother’s Dress and Other Clues to the Life and Times of Annie Steel (1981)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.Online issue in which students become detectives piecing together the life of a nineteenth century woman by examining primary so...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Is There Life in a Decomposing Log?
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Ecology & Ecosystems, ScienceLesson plan has students examine images of decomposing logs to learn about physical changes, lifecycles, and relationships among...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Remember Me Fondly
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryLesson in which students compare the ways in which American and Mexican cultures express ideas of remembrance and honor ancestors.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Robots All Around Us
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: Principles of Design, TechnologyAn activity in which students research and discuss robots in order to design and build 3-D robot prototypes of their own.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Seating Device Design
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryLesson plan in which students look at the materials and design of various seating devices. They write a research paper and desig...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Art to Zoo: Using the Yellow Pages as a Teaching Resource (1988)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.The Yellow Pages becomes a source of activities in subjects as various as history, math, writing, consumer education, art, caree...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Art to Zoo: House Keys (1981)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.Online issue that introduces educators and students to history that can be found by looking at the various architectural styles ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
