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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnacostia Community Museum
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceMain website of Anacostia Community Museum Center for African American History and Culture, a national center for exhibitions, r...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Principles of Design“Think like designers” while exploring museum exhibitions. Trained educators are available to give tours and to facilitate works...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTimeline of Mine
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Principles of DesignActivity in which students learn about the use of timelines. They create 3-D, self-standing timelines that feature events and o...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBotany and Art and Their Roles in Conservation
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Botany and Plant Science, Visual Arts, Ecology & Ecosystems, Visual Arts & Performing Arts and 2 additional..The lessons in this issue of Smithsonian in Your Classroom introduce students to the work of botanists and botanical illustrator...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat's Your Problem? A Look at the Environment in Your Own Backyard
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences, Environmental Issues, History-Social Science, ScienceLesson plans in which students take on an environmental project. They begin by interviewing people who live in their town or nei...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFrom Vaquero to Cowboy
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Students discover the Spanish and Mexican roots of American cowboy culture in this set of four lessons, divided into grades K–2,...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSmithsonian in Your Classroom: Letters from the Japanese American Internment
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: World War II, United States History, History-Social ScienceLessons based on letters from young people in an Arizona internment camp to a librarian in their hometown of San Diego. Students...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBeyond the Frame: Using Art as a Basis for Interdisciplinary Learning
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States History, History-Social Science, Visual ArtsIn these lesson plans, students look for meanings behind artworks in the Smithsonian collections.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOwney the Dog! A Curriculum Guide for Teachers
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: United States History, Mathematics, Visual Arts, History-Social Science and 5 additional..Interdisciplinary lessons based on the travels of a dog named Owney who became a mascot for the Railway Mail Service in the 1880...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSurface Beauty: American Arts and Freer’s Aesthetic Vision
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States History, Visual Arts, History-Social ScienceTeacher's guide with background information on the American Renaissance during the Gilded Age (1870-1900) and student activities...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSmithsonian In Your Classroom: Final Farewells: Signing a Yearbook on the Eve of the Civil War
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: The Civil War & Reconstruction, United States History, History-Social ScienceIn this issue of Smithsonian in Your Classroom, students examine farewell messages written in an 1860 Rutgers College yearbook. ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkProtest Songs: A Musical Introduction
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: United States History, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, The Civil Rights Movement, History-Social Science, MusicLesson on the music, significance, and social/historical context of famous protest songs. Students will sing, listen, and discus...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMbiras, Marimbas, and You: Zimbabwean Music for the General Music Classroom
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, World Geography, MusicLesson has students play and compose music with the mbira. They explore the use of the instrument in Zimbabwe as it connects wit...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSmithsonian American Art Museum Video Conferencing
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Visual ArtsThis webpage provides information on classroom videoconferencing and thematic tours of the American Art Museum. Tours focus on ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSmithsonian Education Online Conferenece: Abraham Lincoln
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceArchived online conference that takes a multidisciplinary look at President Abraham Lincoln on the bicentennial of his birthday....Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentMulticultural Make-a-Book
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.Downloadable PDF activity sheet containing images of diverse Smithsonian objects. Includes instructions for folding the sheet in...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHow do we change a stereotype?
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Native Peoples, United States History, History-Social ScienceThe Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) opened its doors in Washington in 2004. The goal? Nothing less t...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExtraterrestrial Life and Our World View at the Turn of the Millennium
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Human Space Exploration, ScienceWebsite featuring the lecture by astronomer and historian of science Stephen J. Dick, “Extraterrestrial Life and Our World View ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHow have we imagined other worlds?
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Human Space Exploration, History-Social Science, ScienceSpace-themed science fiction shares many characteristics with that other great American genre, the western. In the 1930s and 195...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkListening to the Water Nations
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Native Peoples, United States History, History-Social Science, Earth & Space Science and 3 additional..Cultural geographer Doug Herman discusses perceptions of water in traditional indigenous cultures. He also considers contemporar...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0