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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSheet Music-"The Battle of the Sewing Machines"
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The Battle of the Sewing Machines" was composed and arranged by F. Hyde for the piano, and was published in 1874 by Wm. A. Pond ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSheet Music: Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.On a Sunday morning in December 1941, a chaplain had his most difficult assignment to say a prayer to sailors aboard a U.S. na...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShort Handled Hoe
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The short-handled hoe brings back memories of back-breaking labor for generations of Mexican and Mexican American migrant worker...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSilver Teapot made for Abigail Robinson of Newport, RI
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This silver teapot was made by Samuel Casey of Little Rest (later Kingston, R.I.), about 1750, for Abigail Robinson, probably ab...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSkinner Teaching Machine
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.From the 1920s, psychologists have explored ways to automate teaching. In the 1950s, the psychologist B. F. Skinner of Harvard U...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSlates, Sliderules and Software: Teaching Math in America
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The focus of this online exhibition is the history of mathematics education in America. Beginning with the advent of public edu...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSlideshow Storyteller
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Explore the Web to dive deeper into the story of Robert Smalls, escaped slave and fighter for the Union cause during the Civil W...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSmithsonian Online Education Conference: Problem Solving with Smithsonian Experts
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Researchers from across the Smithsonian met online with teachers and students around the world for the Smithsonian Online Educat...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSmithsonianJazz.org
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Explore jazz through listening activities, interviews with musicians, and background information on SmithsonianJazz.org. Promine...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSnapshots in Time
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.How does maritime activity impact your community and daily life? In this photo sharing activity, students investigate this centr...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSouvenir of the Opening of the East River Bridge, May 24, 1883
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.By the late 19th century, the United States had established itself as a world leader in the area of civil engineering. Perhaps n...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSpark!Lab Inventor Profiles
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Read about three inventors (Charles Brannock, Joseph Friedman, and Charlotte Cramer Sachs) and their devices on this webpage fro...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSpreading the News
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This activity is a guided Internet hunt, or "Web quest," in which children play the role of newspaper reporters in order to rese...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStatue of Liberty Print Artifact Exploration
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Students can guide themselves to a deeper understanding of the Statue of Liberty with this 2-page activity sheet. The sheet incl...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStern Structural Arithmetic Kit A
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This apparatus was designed by Catherine Stern, a physicist by training and the founder of a Montessori school in her native Ger...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStories of Freedom & Justice: Learning Resources
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.With the right resources, learners of any age can engage with the topics of nonviolence and civil rights. This webpage is a gate...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe American Presidency: A Glorious Burden Homepage
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This online exhibition examines the history of the American presidency. Through the use of objects from the museum's extensive c...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe American Presidency: A Glorious Burden Resources
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.A list of the presidents, a time line of presidential candidates, a summary of the military service of presidents as well as a b...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Choate Family: American Colonists
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Students can learn about the Choate family by investigating a room from their house, a deed from 1772, and artifacts that a fami...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Diary of a Civil War Nurse Homepage
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This website features the diary of Civil War nurse, Amanda Akin. In April 1863, Akin left her home in Quaker Hill, NY, to serve ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0