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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: Life in the “Promised Land”: African-American Migrants in Northern Cities, 1916-1940 (1990)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryLesson plan introducing students to the experience of African Americans who migrated from the rural South to the urban North bet...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: Turning Dreams into Reality (1984-85)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.The issue takes students on a guided tour of the invention process, from dreams to the reality. It includes a “pull-out page” de...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: “Blacks in the Westward Movement,” “What Can You Do with a Portrait?” and “Of Beetles, Worms, and Leaves of Grass” (1976)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: Life Sciences, History-Social Science, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Visual Arts and 3 additional..Premier issue of Art to Zoo, containing three sections: experiences of African Americans in westward expansion, the use of portr...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThen, Now and Tomorrow
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Visual ArtsActivity in which students will use photographs to research the history of the New York’s Lower East Side and to predict the fut...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: In the Playtime of Others: Child Labor in the Early 20th Century (1988)
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Online issue activities related to the work and working conditions of child laborers in the early twentieth century.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: The Greatest Show on Earth (Starring Some of the World’s Smallest Animals, 1981)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Life Sciences, ScienceIssue includes insect facts, a brief lesson in insect adaptation, a bibliography of resources, and a pullout page, “Make Your Ow...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: The Museum Idea (1978)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.This issue of Art to Zoo features a lesson plan in which each student creates a “Museum of Me” and the entire class creates a cu...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSmithsonian in Your Classroom: Teaching from Objects and Stories: Learning about the Bering Sea Eskimo People
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Students act as detectives to unravel the mysteries of a traditional culture. The clues are everyday objects and creation storie...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: “Give It Your Best!”: Civilian Contributions to the Home Front (1988)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, World War II, United States HistoryLesson plan that introduces students to efforts on the home front during World War II, as illustrated by media messages. Student...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNative Words, Native Warriors Lesson Plan
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, Native Peoples, World War II, United States HistoryOnline exhibit examines how Native code talkers used their languages to serve their country and to continue the warrior traditio...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentIn Search of the Giant Squid Curriculum Guide
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.Geared for 5-8 grade students with special "roadmaps" for older or younger audiences. Includes lesson plans, instructive website...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnthropology Teaching Activities: Mother-Infant Observation
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Teacher activities show the importance and intensity of observation for anthropologists. Offers background for studying human an...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnthropology Teaching Activities: Random Strategies in Archeology
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Archaeology and Anthropology, ScienceSeveral activities designed to introduce the principles of archeology, the importance of material culture, and techniques and qu...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnthropology Teaching Activities: Relative Dating in Archeology
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Archaeology and Anthropology, ScienceClassroom activities focus on stratigraphy and seriation, dating techniques used by archaeologists to establish a relative chron...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBetween Fences Teaching Guide
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, Native Peoples, English-Language Arts, United States HistoryLesson plan exploring how the fence is entwined with American history, politics, industry, and daily life. Four lesson plans loo...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkKey Ingredients Teaching Guide
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: History-Social ScienceTeaching guide helping students explore the impact of food on American history, discover local food traditions, and look at the ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkKey Ingredients: America by Food
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social ScienceWebsite exploring the history of American food from Native American traditions to modern regional cooking. Incorporates complete...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnd Now a Word From Our Sponsors
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Economics, English-Language ArtsLesson plan has students write and produce public service commercials promoting the Transit of Venus and providing information a...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0- Resource Type: Document
Who Was James Smithson? —From Smithson to Smithsonian Classroom Activities
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, ScienceLesson plan. Learn of the circumstances surrounding James Smithson's generous gift to the United States and examine primary sour...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0 
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShadow Games
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Physics, ScienceLesson plan experimenting with the distance of light sources to see how it affects the shapes of shadows. Students experiment wi...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0