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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkConduct a Genealogical Study
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Genealogy is the study of family ancestries and histories, and a great way to learn women's history. In this activity, students ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkConfederate Officer's Frock Coat
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This is the type of jacket that would have been worn by a Confederate medical officer.Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCotton Gin Video
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this video, students will see both long-staple and short-staple cotton fibers processed in a roller gin and saw gin model si...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreating Stories Activity Kit
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this activity kit, students will use primary and secondary sources, and conduct oral history interviews to construct a family...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreating Stories: America on the Move Electronic Field Trip, Part 2
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this electronic field, curators from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History's exhibition America on the Move t...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDarkroom Detectives
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.What can we learn about life in a sod house by looking at photographs? In this activity, students will analyze two photographs o...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDeringer Pistol
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.A small yet effective weapon, the deringer is the type of weapon a woman spying for the Confederacy might have kept in the pocke...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDiner's Club Credit Card
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Diner's Club was one of the earliest issuers of credit cards beginning in 1950. The convenience and security they came to repres...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDiscover and Protect Nature
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In 1962, Rachel Carson s Silent Spring changed the way people thought about their relationship to nature. Warning readers of the...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDiscovering Lewis and Clark
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This website, produced by The Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation, is a comprehensive and fascinating history of the Lewis an...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDown at the Shore
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Field trips are great ways to learn about life on the water. In this activity, students will find and explore a local maritime a...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDrive Through Time
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this interactive game, students use a virtual time machine to explore modes of transportation during four different eras and ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDuke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn: Jazz Composers
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Through brief biographies of the composers, primary source documents, and media clips, students will learn about the collaborati...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDuke Ellington and Jazz Homepage
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Children and adults can enjoy exploring the story behind one of America s pioneers of jazz music, Duke Ellington, through childr...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEdison After Forty: The Challenge of Success
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Students will learn about Thomas Edison's life in the years after he had become one of the most famous men in the world. At the ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEli Whitney's Cotton Gin Model
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In 1794, Eli Whitney patented a new kind of cotton gin. His invention, using rotating brushes and teeth to remove the seeds from...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEn Español: La Colección de Teodoro Vidal: Ver Todos Los Objectos
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.En esta colecci n por el Internet, los estudiantes pueden investigar la colecci n de Teodoro Vidal, uno de los coleccionistas m ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEnglish Sea Pattern Pistol
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Physical DescriptionEnglish sea pattern pistol, .71 caliber.Specific HistoryThis pistol was made in Belgium for the Royal Navy.Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEnvironmental Button
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The Environmental Movement This button depicts the ecology symbol, a small letter e inside the larger letter O, the letters ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExtract DNA
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.DNA is inside the cells of every living thing, including you. This experiment lets you see the long, twisting molecules of DNA i...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0