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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBeyond the Frame: Using Art as a Basis for Interdisciplinary Learning
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States History, 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: Music, History-Social Science, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States History 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: History-Social Science, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States History, Visual ArtsTeacher'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: History-Social Science, United States History, The Civil War & ReconstructionIn 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: Music, History-Social Science, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States History, The Civil Rights MovementLesson 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: Music, World Geography, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsLesson 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, Visual Arts & Performing 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, History-Social Science, United States HistoryThe 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 / HyperLinkA Virtual Field Trip to the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Science, Environmental IssuesDo you find climate change to be a complicated topic to bring into the classroom? In this webinar, Smithsonian educator Mark Had...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: History-Social Science, Earth & Space Science, United States History, Environmental Issues and 3 additional..Cultural geographer Doug Herman discusses perceptions of water in traditional indigenous cultures. He also considers contemporar...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkKorean-American Resources
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceList of links and news articles on Korean Americans on these topics: Journalism/Media, Theater, Film and Television, Tae Kwon Do...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Smithsonian Institution at the Turn of the Century
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceHistorical photographs and information documenting what the Smithsonian institution was like in 1900. Includes information on sp...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSmithsonian Associates
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States History, ScienceWebsite for the Smithsonian Associates, a cultural, educational, and membership division of the Smithsonian Institution, recogni...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSmithsonian Source: Invention
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Technology, ScienceSection of SmithsonianSource.org intended to supplement the materials you currently use for lessons on American inventions and i...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPrimary Source Search
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceSearchable database of primary sources from the Smithsonian. Organized by artifacts, documents, and photographs, and by major to...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHow does design solve everyday problems?
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Principles of Design, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Technology, ScienceFrom the chair in which you’re sitting to the town in which you live, everything around you is the result of the work of designe...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0